{"id":160240,"date":"2022-07-13T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160240"},"modified":"2022-07-13T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:55:09","slug":"bloodthirsty-cartel-slaughtered-9-mormon-women-and-kids-over-public-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/bloodthirsty-cartel-slaughtered-9-mormon-women-and-kids-over-public-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodthirsty cartel slaughtered 9 Mormon women and kids over public criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cartel members reportedly fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition into vehicles owned by Mormons and then set them on fire in a sickening revenge attack. <\/p>\n

Nine people were killed in the massacre in November 2019, including Rhonita Miller and her four children, Howard, 12, Krystal, 10, and infant twins Titus and Tiana.<\/p>\n

A federal judge in the US ruled the cartel must now pay $1.5billion (\u00a31.3bn) to the families of the victims after they filed a lawsuit accusing them of carrying out the attack in revenge for public criticism.<\/p>\n

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US Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter\u2019s award will be automatically tripled under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act, potentially increasing the amount to $4.6bn.<\/p>\n

Mexican authorities said in 2020 that the mastermind of the attack was one of 17 people arrested.<\/p>\n

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The Bismarck Tribune reported that the cartel did not respond to a published summons or have representation at a trial in North Dakota in March. <\/p>\n

Dawna Langford, 43, Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 29 and her children Trevor, 11, and Rogan were also among the victims of the slayings. <\/p>\n

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The surviving family members reportedly included two widowers of women killed who were working in North Dakota at the time the suit was filed.<\/p>\n

Their lawyer said various family members were living in the state and working in the oil industry while travelling to and from Mexico.<\/p>\n

David Langford, one of the victim's fathers, said: \u201cWe went into a United States courtroom in North Dakota seeking some acknowledgement of and measure of justice for the trauma inflicted on our family and we received it\u201d<\/p>\n

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