‘SATANIC RITUALS’: Gang is ‘Sacrificing Underage Girls’

A look into one of the world's most vicious gangs - Mara Salvatrucha.

A NOTORIOUS street gang dubbed “world’s most feared” is allegedly sacrificing underage girls in “Satanic rituals”, US police say.



More than a dozen members of the LA-based, Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, have been charged in connection with at least eight murders, many involving high school students, across the US since last month.

Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been charged with murdering 15-year-old Genesis Cornejo in a 'satanic ritual'.Source:Supplied

While MS-13 has long been associated with devil worship and uses plenty of Satanic symbolism, including its trademark “devil’s horns” hand signal, it is the first time evidence of members’ alleged participation in Satanic murders has been presented in the US.

In recent days, horror details of MS-13 crimes have been revealed in police documents tendered in two separate court cases underway in New York and Texas.

Two El Salvadoran illegal immigrants, Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been indicted in the alleged murder of a 15-year-old girl as part of a Satanic ritual as well as the kidnap, torture and rape of two other teens.


A 14-year-old girl who was allegedly held hostage in a Houston apartment by purported MS-13 leader Alvarez-Flores, his co-accused Hernandez-Rivera and four other gang members in January, is at the centre of the prosecution.
The girl told police she was plied with alcohol and drugs, sexually assaulted by a gang member called “Flaco” and held down while Alvarez-Flores tattooed an image of the Grim Reaper stretching from her knee to her foot, according to court documents cited by ABC 13.
She told police that during her 18 days in captivity, she met another hostage, a young girl called “Genesis”, whom she claimed was later murdered for insulting a Satanic shrine Alvarez-Florez had set up.
Alvarez-Flores then made a show of appeasing Satan by placing a lit cigarette on a Satanic statue at the centre of the shrine before declaring that “material” objects no longer satisfied Satan. Instead, “the Beast wants another soul”, he said, according to police documents.
The 14-year-old claimed when she woke up the following morning, Genesis had vanished.

Lifelong friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, both 15 were allegedly beaten to death by MS-13 membersSource:Supplied

MS-13 gang members make their trademark ‘devil’s horns’ hand signal in jail. Picture: Jan Sochor/REXSource:Austral International Press Agency

On February 16, the shot and tortured body of female believed to be aged between 15 and 25 was found. Police struggled to identify her for almost two weeks before confirming her remains belonged to Genesis Conejo, a 15-year-old reported missing by her family, who believed she may have run off with an older man.

One night during her confinement, she observed an incident where Genesis made an outburst against a shrine dedicated to the gang members’ satanic beliefs,” the prosecutor said.