"They go around looking for kids who are out on the streets and need money,” the 17-year-old recalls. “At 12 years old, I became sort of a hired killer.”
MEXICO CITY (AP) Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Never comfortable in school, he had an abusive childhood: at one point his mother held his hands over an open flame after he allegedly shoved a classmate.
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MEXICO CITY Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Never comfortable in school, he had an .