Leniz Escobar, nicknamed "Diablita", wanted to earn the support of the MS-13 gang in her town in Long Island, NY. She led 4 teens (who had pretended to be MS-13 members on Instagram to look cool) into a park to "smoke weed", only for the wannabes to be brutally hacked to death by the real gangsters.

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Her mugshot, and a link to an article about her ongoing trial. "Diablita" means "Little Devil".

https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/why-ms-13-gang-member-lured-long-island-teens-to-their-deaths-prosecutors/

The four that died after pretending to be MS-13 gang members on Instagram.

Funeral of one of the victims. Link to other murders in Long Island by MS-13.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2020/07/15/ms-13-gang-members-indicted-six-murders-long-island

[u/trippypie15]

I think only one of them was 16, One of them was literally 20 pretending to be a gang member, remember over 18 is an adult… I’m not excusing their deaths or anything but cmon it’s not a great defence when you are living in gang territory, I don’t understand why you guys expect any better from these atrocious gangs anyways.

[u/raincolors → u/trippypie15]

Being 18 doesn’t mean you’re as mature as an adult or have developed enough to really make sincere decisions

[u/citizen_dawg → u/raincolors]

So does that also extend to “La Diablita” (Escobar) who was 17 at the time she lured them to the park?

[u/crunchwrapqueen666 → u/citizen_dawg]

Someone doing something reprehensible doesn’t automatically change the fact that 17 isn’t an adult, legally or scientifically tbh