Mexican gang members took law in their own hands and have punished a suspected rapist by having his genitals gnawed by a pit bull terrier.

The incident happened in Mexico City, Mexico, last month when local men held a man in his 30s after being caught sexually assaulting a woman.

The horrific footage shows how he was stripped of his clothes, handcuffed, and pinned to the ground as gang members surround the alleged perpetrator.

Out of nowhere, a white pit bull terrier with prominent brown marks started to gnaw the man's genitals. The enraged canine, dug his teeth deep on his private parts, tearing it off completely, Daily Mail reported.

The footage shows the victim begging for his life. The man said "stop, leave me now, leave me" before another gang member covered his mouth with a dirty cloth. A second canine, a brown pit bull appeared but is not interested in gnawing what's left of the man's penis and testicles.

At the end of the video, all that's left of the alleged rapist's private parts was a gaping hole that spewed blood non-stop.

The media outlet noted that gang punishment has become crueler in the past years. In 2017, viral footage of a man summary executed via a barrage of bullets also emerged.

The initiators of the punishment are said to have uploaded the video as a warning to rapists in Mexico. Mexican criminal organizations are known to punish men that harass and rape women.

The country's media have claimed that such punishments were becoming "increasingly frequent," especially with dozens of women being raped every day.

One of those women were allegedly raped by the man in the video, according to DonDiario. It's still unclear if he survived the mauling, several news outlets are verifying the rapist's whereabouts.

Mexico has been riddled with crime and corruption for many years. The country currently has the highest murder rate in the world, with 17,000 killed in the first half of this year.

The statistics have shown that the numbers are the most in its history and with the continuing gang wars, it could become worse. Kidnappings, extortion, and other serious crimes are common in most of the country's gang riddled cities and municipalities.

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In this photo, a policeman interrogates a suspected gang member prior to a ceremony to declare their communities a peace zone at La Selva neighborhood in Ilopango, El Salvador, Feb. 3, 2017. The man was later released. Inhabitants of southern Ilopango declared their neighborhoods as violence-free zones to lower homicide rates in one of the most violent areas of El Salvador. Reuters