Huge new update in slaughter of nine Mormons including six children and three women on remote road | The Sun

A JUDGE has ordered a Mexican drug cartel to pay $4.6billion to the families of nine victims they murdered.

The families were granted $1.5billion, which is tripled under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act.

“We went into a United States courtroom in North Dakota seeking some acknowledgment of and measure of justice for the trauma inflicted on our family and we received it,” David Langford, the husband of one of the victims, told the Associated Press.

In November of 2019, Maria Rhonita LeBaron and her 12, 10, and twin eight-month-old children, along with Christina Langford, Dawna Langford and her 11- and two-year-old children, were murdered by the cartel in Mexico, 90 miles south of the border.

The women, who were part of a Mormon fundamentalist community, were traveling in a three-vehicle caravan.

The cartel shot at LeBaron’s vehicle for at least five to 10 minutes and hit the car at least 321 times, according to court documents.

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The cartel then set the vehicle on fire, when experts believe the family was still alive.

“As they’re sitting in that car burning to death, watching their siblings, their family members burn to death, it’s – it must be the most frightening thing that anyone has ever experienced,” Dr Sebastian Schubl, a trauma surgeon and burn expert, testified.

Dr Schubl estimated that the family could have survived for up to an hour as the vehicle was burning.

"It was horrible, it was sickening,” LeBaron’s father testified.

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“I cannot imagine a more gruesome scene for a father and a family to have to encounter and … me, my wife, and family were forced to do the unconscionable, collect our families bones and ashes."

North of the car, Christina Langford’s vehicle was hit at least 41 times.

​​The lead Mexican prosecutor in the case said that Christina Langford stepped out of her vehicle with her hands up in the air, saying that there were women and children and asking not to shoot, but the cartel member shot and killed her anyway.

She was traveling with her seven-month-old, who "barely” survived with three bullet wounds.

Dawna Langford came up in her vehicle in an attempt to help Christina, but the cartel fired at the car.

Her two-year-old son was killed as an older sibling held him in her arms. Her 11-year-old son died of a shot to the head.

Dawna Langford was shot and killed shortly after.

Her surviving children in the vehicle were let out by the cartel at gunpoint, and several had serious wounds, without food or medical supplies.

Two children carried their younger sibling down the mountain, and one ran eight miles to his family for help, all while dodging shots from the cartel and without a jacket in the cold.

Another child, fearing the first was dead, made the trek to meet him and was lost in the dark.

The first child located his family and all children were found and taken to the hospital after 10 hours.

The day before the attack, 100 “heavily armed” individuals had a meeting at the ranch belonging to the leader of the Juárez Cartel to plan the attack, with the goal of gaining back territory from a rival gang.

Gang members were told by leaders to “shoot … at anyone, be it a civilian, police officer, just anyone," court documents say.

The gang members were situated at different locations on the road. 

Christina Langford planned to travel to get her passport to reenter the United States in order to meet her husband and five other children.

LeBaron was also meeting up with her husband, and Dawna was headed to a family wedding.

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While the Department of Treasury can seize the cartel's assets, it is unknown if any are held.

The cartel did not have representation at the trial and did not respond to a summons, according to the Bismarck Tribune.

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