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Friday 3 March 2017

MS-13 gang members indicted in slayings of 3 New York teens

and prosecutors revealed two juveniles, because she
in a news conference that had been feuding with MS-
10 of the 13 indicted sus- 13 members at school and
pects were citizens of El on social media. The posse,
Salvador or Honduras who which had been roving in
were in the U.S. illegally, in- a car looking for gang en-
cluding most of the people emies, attacked when they
directly implicated in the came across her walking
murders. with Nisa in the street.
Last December, Donald “(Nisa) Mickens was simply
Trump referenced the kill- at the wrong place at the
ings in Brentwood during a wrong time, hanging out
profile for his Time maga- with her childhood friend,”
zine “Person of the Year” Capers said.
award after being elected Robert Mickens, Nisa’s fa-
president. ther, said he felt blessed
Two other killings of Brent- that police had made ar-
wood youths, ages 15 and rests.
19, whose bodies were “I’ve got some type of
discovered last year in se- closure even though my
cluded spots in the hamlet, daughter is not back. It’s
remain unsolved. closure to my family,” he
Gang violence has been a said.
problem in Brentwood and Pena-Hernandez was an
Law enforcement officers take one of the MS-13 street gang members into custody in Central Is- some surrounding Long Is- alleged MS-13 gang mem-
lip, N.Y., Thursday, March 2, 2017. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they have captured the land communities for more ber who was lured to the
members of the violent street gang who killed three Long Island high school students last year, than a decade, but Suffolk grounds of an abandoned
including two girls who were attacked with a machete and baseball bats as they walked through County police and the FBI state psychiatric hospital
their suburban neighborhood.
(James Carbone/Newsday via AP) began pouring resources by fellow gang members
into a crackdown after the he thought were his friends,
FRANK ELTMAN they walked through their Cuevas, 16, who were am- killings of the high school Capers said. Those friends
Associated Press suburban neighborhood. bushed by a carload of girls sparked outrage. turned on him and repeat-
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Thirteen alleged mem- other teens on Sept. 13, “While violence and brutal- edly stabbed him to death,
Federal prosecutors said bers of local cliques of the and their former school- ity are trademarks of the he said.His death had gone
Thursday that they have MS-13 street gang were mate Jose Pena-Hernan- MS-13 gang, the murders of largely publicly unmarked
captured the members of charged with a slew of vio- dez, 18, whose corpse was these three teens are par- until police began discov-
a violent street gang who lent crimes and seven mur- found on the grounds of an ticularly disturbing,” U.S. At- ering corpses in the weeks
killed three Long Island high ders over a five year peri- abandoned state psychi- torney Robert Capers said after Cuevas and Nisa
school students last year, od, prosecutors and police atric hospital following his in announcing the indict- died.Some people com-
including two girls — insep- announced. disappearance in June. ment Thursday. plained that police, school
arable best friends — who Among the dead: Brent- The killings came amid Cuevas was targeted last officials and others were
were attacked with a ma- wood High School students a national conversation summer by a group of four not doing enough to stem
chete and baseball bats as Nisa Mickens, 15, Kayla about illegal immigration, gang members, including the violence. q
5 former New Hampshire prep school staffers accused of abuse

MICHAEL CASEY Thursday in a letter to the students from 1966 to the chologist Eldeff Schwaab tra said he did not want
Associated Press school community. It brings 1980s.“We have grieved and teacher George Man- to comment.A fifth former
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An to eight the number of ex- as we learned that former gan — have died.Two oth- staffer, Lane Bateman, a
outside investigation into employees accused of students were harmed by ers were barred from the drama teacher from 1980
sexual assault allegations sexual misconduct at the some of the very people Exeter campus and, in one to 1992, also has died. Bate-
at a New Hampshire prep school. who were charged with case, stripped of his fac- man had been sentenced
school has identified five The Holland & Knight in- the responsibility of keep- ulty emeritus status. One of to five years in jail on child
former staff members ac- vestigation, the law firm ing them safe,” said Nicie them, Henry Ploegstra, an pornography charges. He
cused of abuse, the latest commissioned by Phillips Panetta, president of the English teacher accused of also was accused of se-
evidence that the problem Exeter several months ago, school’s trustees, in the let- inappropriate sexual con- cretly videotaping students
at the prestigious institution identified four teachers, in- ter to the Exeter community tact with three students in dorm rooms and bath-
dates back decades and cluding a drama teacher, sent Thursday. “We sincere- between 1966 and 1980, rooms. Exeter Police Chief
was more widespread than and a psychologist who ly apologize to those who denied the allegations in WilliamSchupe told The As-
previously thought. allegedly engaged in sexu- were harmed and deeply a letter.Contacted at his sociated Press the depart-
Phillips Exeter Academy ally inappropriate behavior regret their suffering.” Michigan home Thursday, ment was provided with
disclosed the information involving a total of eight Two of the accused — psy- the 82-year-old Ploegs- the cases last year. q