Posted on 12/01/2015 12:13:45 PM PST by QT3.14
A Philippine court on Tuesday convicted a U.S. Marine of killing a Filipino last year after he discovered she was a transgender woman in a hotel in the Philippines while he was on a break after participating in joint military exercises in the country.
Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of homicide by first strangling Jennifer Laude and then dunking her head into a toilet bowl in the hotel they had checked into after meeting in a disco bar in Olongapo city, northwest of Manila. He was sentenced to 6-12 years in jail, with time already spent in detention credited, said court clerk Gerry Gruspe.
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Tricking someone into thinking your are female when you are male ought to be a crime of sexual assault, especially when it goes far enough to get the person into a hotel room.
No question. I was responding to someone who claimed the murder should be "permitted" and "glorified."
You gotta watch out for those dern Filipino Bennyboys. They are all over the place over there. Some guys are attracted to them and trouble often results.
The Philippines has a crime of passion law, like most Latin countries. The legal system is derived from the Spanish colonial one, and was not switched out by the US.
Extreme emotion is an extenuating circumstance.
It is sexual assault, in my opinion, in that the guy did not give consent to a man or a man pretending to be a woman, or a “woman” with a penis. It should be criminal sexual assault by the trickster. That does not excuse murder, but neither does it make the dude entirely innocent. He was in the process of committing sexual assault.
With all the prostitutes in the PI it’s just bad luck he picks up a tranny.
but you cut your losses and go on and hope your buddies don’t find out...You don’t strangle and kill someone...I don’t like gay, trans whatever....but you just don’t kill someone cause you were whoring and made a mistake...This happened to a guy when i was in the Navy...He just left the scene but he should kept his mouth shut because he got ridiculed....I see this in a different way....I only kill in complete self defense....This guy didn’t need to kill this lost soul.....6 1/2 years ain’t shit for a life.....and if he goes to a Filipino prison..it won’t be pretty at all.
There’s a lot to be said for keeping your d1ck to yourself.
The Marine should have walked away and chalked the experience up as a lesson learned.
I was in the Marine Corps as well and was accosted by prostitutes whenever I left the base. But I never partook. The whole scene just seems kind of skanky to me.
What's wrong with meeting a nice girl in church or at the library and then courting her like a normal human being?
Unless you want to kill them both. Which is not my position.
He was in the process of committing sexual assault.
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Seems the hooker was doing what he was paid to do.
Not sure how that constitutes sexual assault.
Caveat Emptor.
It’s not rape by fraud, since he got fellated as he wished. He consented to perverse sexual contact, which was perverse whether the fellator was male or female.
There is no excuse for the murder unless the man was trying to force himself on him. Even if not, to present yourself as a woman (when a man) to a man, with the intent of having sex, should be considered sexual assault. Even if all it is is kissing, it is not with consent because of the deception.
He was not doing what he was paid to do if he was presenting himself as a woman. It was deception. Clearly the marine would not have participated if he knew the prostitute was a man. That should be considered sexual assault. It was not consensual. The marine did not consent to having sex with a man or even a transgender nutcase. He was tricked into it.
He did not consent to sex with a man. That is sexual assault.
Didn’t say there was.
You presume that sex acts haven’t already occurred.
Saying he got what he deserved is like saying a woman got what she deserved if she is raped when she is dressed immodestly. You may disagree with the behavior and/or see it as unwise. That does not mean the person deserves to be violated in any way against their will.
It IS rape by fraud because the performer was male, in which case he would never have consented if he’d known.
Justifiable homicide!
I would!
Odd that you would invoke the gay agenda that an orgasm is an orgasm and gender doesn’t matter.
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