Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says it has opened an investigation into the death of an 8-year-old girl who authorities say committed suicide at a shelter in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
The commission says the girl was traveling with a migrant smuggler who planned to take her to her parents in the United States when federal authorities arrested the smuggler.
Federal officials turned the girl over to Chihuahua state authorities who placed her at a private shelter instead of one run by the state's child protective services.
State prosecutors say the girl hanged herself last week inside a bathroom at "La Esperanza" shelter and that there was no foul play.
The commission said in a Monday statement that authorities are still trying to locate the girl's family.
This sad news comes as police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official said on Monday.
Michoacan state Public Safety Secretary Carlos Castellanos Becerra alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of the cartel's organ-trafficking ring.
The ring would kidnap children and take them to rented homes with medical equipment where their organs were removed, Castellanos Becerra charged.
Deuteronomy 28:66
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Exodus 21:16
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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