MEXICAN TEEN HITMAN, 14, GETS 3 YRS. FOR 4 MURDERS

KIDS TODAY! Heard of Edgar Jimenez Lugo? No? How about "El Ponchis"? No? Well, the San Diego-born 14-year-old admitted torturing and beheading at least four victims of of a sinister Mexican dope cartel. Yesterday, he was sentenced to 3 YEARS! That's the max under Mex youth law. He was also fined $390,000. The cold-blooded killer was nabbed with his sister, 19, last December trying to flee Mexico. Big sister helped him dump the bodies.
 On a video shown in court, an interrogator asks: "How many have you killed?" The tiny teen terror calmly responds: "Four. I slit their throats."
Nicknamed "El Ponchis" - he is considered one of the most jarring symbols in the bloody Mexican drug
war - had become near-legend in the country after a YouTube video circulated reportedly showing the teen beating a man with a two-by-four while the man was hanging from the ceiling. He told cops he had worked for the cartel since he was 11, after they kidnapped him.

He told reporters at the time he was busted: "I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't, they would kill me." The Mexican drug war has claimed a staggering 41,000 lives since 2008 leaving a country soaked in blood from Chiapas to Chihuahua