A man has been arrested in northern Mexico for beating his three sons to death to return to the children’s mother.
MEXICO CITY – A man has been arrested in northern Mexico for beating his three sons to death to return to the children’s mother, prosecutors said Sunday.
The prosecutor’s office in northern Sonora said on Sunday that the boys were 3, 7 and 8 years old. The deaths took place in the north-central state of Hidalgo on January 2. The suspect called his own father to tell him what he had ready and his grandfather called the police.
It appears that the suspect fled to Sonora, but was quickly detained there and returned to Hidalgo to face charges.
Prosecutors said the man had an argument with the boys’ mother and killed the children “to cause them great pain”.
“Apparently, as revenge against his wife, he killed his sons,” the office said in a statement.