Haiti: Boy killed over $680 ransom, police say


PORT-AU-PRINCE ORANJESTAD MEXICO CITY - Kidnappers executed a 7-year-old boy because his family could not afford to pay $680 in ransom, police said Monday.

The body of Schneider Hervil was found Friday in the town of Cabaret, north of the Haitian capital, about two weeks after abductors snatched him from his family's home, police spokesman Frantz Lerebours told a news conference.

The specific cause of his death was not known, Lerebours said.


The child's family received a phone call from kidnappers demanding the ransom for his release, but was unable to raise the cash, he said.

No arrests have been made.

At least 16 kidnappings were reported in Haiti through Nov. 20 this year, down from the nearly 80 reported for the full month of November 2006, U.N. peacekeepers said.

Haiti: Boy killed over $680 ransom, police say -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

it's SERIOUS.


I have an uncle down there right now..I told him not to go but he's under the impression that media is making a bigger deal than exists....



I hope he watches who he speaks to.....people are getting kidnapped by people they grew up with.....not even strangers