Posted on 07/10/2024 7:38:13 AM PDT by Beowulf9
A Pennsylvania community is mourning transgender teen Pauly Likens, 14, whose dismembered body was found at the end of Pride month.
On June 25, the Sharon Police Department received a report that Likens had been missing since June 22, a news release from the Mercer County Coroner states.
That same day, the Hermitage Police Department was dispatched to a nearby lake, where they found dismembered human remains recovered in and around the water, officials stated. Likens' remains were recovered in the area surrounding Shenango River Lake over the following week, according to state police.
An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was ruled to be a sharp force trauma to the head, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Ladner, who is speaking on behalf of Pauly Likens’ family, told ABC News that Likens was a jokester who played pranks on her family and was a selfless and loving kid.
MORE: After decades of fear, some transgender elders celebrate freedom and progress "It's really important to build that sense of community in their own backyard, so that maybe they can find safe connections right here in their own community," Ladner said. "And then we wouldn't be going through these types of situations, tragic situations"
Surveillance footage, social media records and cellular phone records found that Likens appeared "to be on the phone and waiting to meet someone near the canoe launch area," state police said.
Expand article logo Continue reading A suspect, DaShawn Watkins, has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, evidence tampering and abuse of corpse after allegedly murdering and dismembering Likens.
Officials say footage also captured Watkins, 29, making several trips out of his apartment carrying multiple bags, and driving to his apartment in the vehicle seen near the crime scene.
Multiple locations in Watkins' apartment tested positive in a preliminary blood test, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.
Watkins' next preliminary hearing will be on July 17 and another is scheduled for July 25. His arraignment was on July 3 and he was denied bail. He has not yet entered a plea.
ABC News has reached out to Watkins' legal representation for comment.
Likens' death comes amid heightened anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has been cause for concern.
A candlelight vigil for the teen is being planned for July 13 by local LGBTQ activist groups.
"We must stay vigilant in protecting our trans kids and trans people," read a social media post by TransYOUniting. "Pauly Likens, a 14-year-old, was brutally murdered, her life cut short by violence and hatred. Her story is a stark reminder of the dangers our community faces daily."
Was he a teen prostitute? That would explain a lot.
Watkins was most likely a Sodomite predator. Met the kid online, abused him, and then killed him when he found out the kid was 14
Gays have a funny way of celebrating Pride Month.
That is a white supremacist!
What is a 14 yr old doing on Grindr?
My bet is that this has nothing to do with someone going around looking for "trans" people to murder. Its more likely someone he knew personally for reasons that had nothing to do with him being "trans," some risky behavior that he engaged in or some random senseless murder.
I’m sorry the Likens lad met his end in such a horrific way. No one deserves that. But the story just strikes me as so odd. First they try to compound the horror by saying that it happened during ‘pride month’.
Then there’s the reference to ‘trans elders’. Are they like the ‘Native American elder’ who was beating the drum in the face of Nick Sandmann? Who bestows ‘elder’ status? Is every geezer/geezerette eligible?
And then there’s the not too subtle attempt to blame normal society for the killing. If only normal people were more accepting of the mentally confused, things like this wouldn’t happen. Shame on all of us.
Arrest the mother. She’s the root cause of all this.
“My bet is that this has nothing to do with someone going around looking for “trans” people to murder. Its more likely someone he knew personally for reasons that had nothing to do with him being “trans,” some risky behavior that he engaged in or some random senseless murder.”
He met “her” on Grindr likely thinking he was meeting up with a vulnerable 14yo girl.
Articles online say he met him on Grindr, a social networking and online dating application for gays and also their online ad says ‘transexuals’. Hey lets just act like this is all so wonderful and let any kid on here!
o here we go again. what was that guy, Mathew Something-or-Other, that they put forth as a martyr for the noble cause of Sodomy a few decades ago?
Lather, rinse, repeat. Pun intended.
Wouldn't a transgender by definition have mutilated body parts?
There's no pride in mutilating children.
Go ahead and keep lifting the lid on the gay perversions box and see what actually goes on. It is insanity squared.
The body was found right there, on the oversized calendar, placed on June 30, with no parts touching any other days.
When will reporters learn to write correctly?
DeShawn Watkins sexual preferences are strangely absent from the article.
Besides, who, exactly, is more unsafe?
We normals?? ...from weirdo cross-dressers who go on mass shootings? (one or more freepers has a list...)
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