Posted on 07/26/2005 4:30:27 PM PDT by SmithL
Hayward -- One of three men accused of killing a 17-year-old Newark transgender nearly three years ago testified today that he participated in the attack after learning that Gwen Araujo was not the woman he thought he'd had sex with.
Testifying for the first time at his retrial on murder charges, Jose Merel, 25, said he was disgusted when friends at a party revealed that Araujo, who called herself Lida and with whom Merel had previously had anal sex, was biologically male.
"It's hard to explain," Merel said in a Hayward courtroom of the way he felt on Oct. 3, 2003. "Your whole life you think you're a heterosexual. Then you get pleasure from a homosexual. It disgusted me."
Merel did not testify at the first trial, which ended in June 2004 with the jury deadlocked on charges against him and two other men, Michael Magidson and Jason Cazares, both 25. The case, and the mistrial, outraged the transgender community.
The retrial began last month.
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More proof that homosexual sex kills!
Either I'm confused or he is; could he not tell the difference by feel?
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Which means MALE.
Calling yourself female doesn't make it so. I tried to call myself Paul McCartney once, but they made me give the money.
made me give the money back.
They only did it anally.
How can one have a sex change before the age of consent
With an anal fetish, it might be somewhat ambiguous...
Yeah, you can stick a fish up your butt but it doesn't make you a mermaid.
He didn't have a sex change, he (or she) was born with both male and female parts.
I'm sure plenty of them can testify to that personally.
So this guy gets himself lit and has sex (anal, not anal, I don't care) with a complete stranger and is embarrassed.
So he, (and possibly two other people) KILL this stranger.
Does the fact that this person is transgendered justify MURDER?
He didn't. He just dressed the part. By the way, his mother had him buried under his chosen female name.
This kid didn't deserve to die but he was taking a tremendous risk by deceiving these guys into having casual sex with him while he pretended to be a girl. He was "outed" by a girl at the party, beaten up by the guys and his body left in the Sierra foothills, I believe.
Cross-dressers have the right, I guess, to do what they do but they don't have the right to deceive others, in spite of the fact that those kids were plain stupid in having casual sex that way. It was a tragedy all around and yet his mother is using him as a symbol of transgender tolerance at the local schools around here. Sickening.
That's a hermaphrodite. "Transgender" means that you've been operated on. Although the article doesn't make it to clear, what it really seems like is the he was just a drag queen.
I don't know, I still think I might notice my new girlfriends dangling parts, but then again, I'm a Marine Biologist.
Bub, you've "missed" on several levels here...
With an anal fetish, it might be somewhat ambiguous....................now there's something for Triumph to poop on.....
snipped from the rest of the article:
"I thought it was impossible to derive pleasure from a man unless you were gay," he said. "I was having serious questions about my sexuality."
Merel then grew angry, slapping Araujo twice as others punched her and pushed her up against a wall. He then went into the kitchen, he said, grabbed a tin can and tried to scare Araujo with it. He then picked up a frying pan and hit her in the head, he said.
Prosecutors say Magidson pulled a rope toward Araujo's neck after she had been tied up, and the accused killers buried Araujo's body in El Dorado National Forest.
Sounds a lot like what we might call an "honor killing" in other communities. (I'm embarrassed, I won't take personal responsability for my actions, therefore, I HAD to kill this person to save my manhood". ) Disgusting.
You'd sure never fall for the fish up the butt = mermaid then.
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