Mexican Family Of 8 Murdered In Juarez, Mexico; Baby Found Alive

After eight members of a family in the Mexican border city of Juárez were found stabbed to death over the weekend, including three children of four, six and seven years of age, a ninth family member -- a 3-month-old baby previously presumed to be dead -- has been found alive, according to El Diario de Juárez. The baby had been taken in by the neighbor who discovered the eight bodies in their home in the neighborhood of Morelos Zaragoza. Authorities say they have no suspects as yet.

El Diario de Juárez writes that the family had planned to attend religious services on Sunday and that friends had gone to look for them when they did not show up. Community members expressed shock and outrage over the murder, while one police officer told the newspaper, "It's the worst I've seen." Outside the house, others alleged that one of the family members, known only as Max, may have fallen afoul of the murderers through the dealings of his used-car business. One of the family's neighbors said, "We were friends of theirs and we are angry because they killed three children. Why do it to the children? Even them. Because for whatever Max may have done, which I don't think he did do anything, no one deserves to be killed and even less so in such a vicious way."

The city of Juárez saw a huge swell in violence, with more than 10,000 people murdered in the city of 1.3 million in less than five years. In 2010, that city's bloodiest year on record, 3,622 people were killed. In the last two years, it has declined sharply, with 797 recorded murders in 2012 -- an average of about two per day, as opposed to almost ten per day in 2010. But the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels which had fought for control of the territory remain, leading some to question how much of a recovery the city has made.

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