‘MS-13 is a virus… you have to kill it’: Former gang member describes how he was initiated by being beaten up for 13 seconds and saw stabbing people as ‘very normal’
Speedy,’ a former MS-13 member, has opened up about his time in the brutal street gang
The now 28-year-old from Central Islip, New York said he was first jumped into the gang when he was 16
After the violent initiation, he said he began to think of stabbing people and shaking them down as normal
Finally, Speedy was able to escape and has started a new life with his son
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 June 2017
A former MS-13 member has given a shocking account of what it was like to be a part of the notorious gang – and be able to live to talk about it.
‘Speedy,’ who said he does not want to identify himself due to potential retaliation from the gang, is now 28. But he was an impressionable 16-year-old, from Central Islip, New York, when he was first initiated into the gang, he told the New York Post.
‘It happened in a park at night,’ he said.
‘Three gang members kicked and punched me all over my body — my arms, my back, my stomach, my hands, even my groin. Nothing was off-limits to them.
‘They beat me for exactly 13 seconds, while one of the gang members kept time in the background, counting slowly.’
Speedy said his family is from Guatemala and both of his parents died of cancer – his mom passed away when he was six and his dad when he was 14. Both of his younger sisters were put in foster homes, while be bounced around between uncles and aunts.
MS-13, he said, ‘finds your weakness’ and exploits it.
The gang supplied him with alcohol, drugs, girls and, most importantly, a network of guys that felt like family. Speedy said being a part of MS-13 made him powerful and meant he could use ‘violence to send a message.’
‘Hurting others made me feel invincible, like nothing is against you. If you have sadness inside you, it makes you happy,’ he told the NY Post.
Speedy also spoke about his time ‘shaking people down,’ how ‘stabbing others’ became normal for him and how gang members would find the family of people who crossed them and kill or intimidate them.
‘If a father doesn’t want to cooperate with us, they will do something to his daughter. I never raped anyone, but others did. If a gang member was interested in a girl he saw, he would rape her and claim her as property,’ Speedy said.
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