Posted on 03/28/2002 8:02:29 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
SUMMARY: A 17-year-old Denver girl was viciously slashed Tuesday afternoon, and the word "dyke" was carved into her forearm with a razor.
A 17-year-old Denver girl was viciously slashed Tuesday afternoon, and the word "dyke" was carved into her forearm with a razor, media outlets in Colorado report.
According to the Rocky Mountain News and ABC News, April Mora was walking to a store through an alley near her house at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, when she encountered three teen-age white males in a black Honda. When Mora stopped to look at the car, the teens began calling her "dyke" and hazing her, and Mora gave the passengers a dirty look. The driver then pulled over, and two of the teens got out and dragged Mora to the ground, one holding a knife to her throat.
"Two guys got out of the car, and (one) held me down, while the other guy was cutting something in me," Mora told ABC. "The driver was yelling stuff to them and telling them what to do."
Mora's face was repeatedly slashed, and the letters "RIP" were cut into her stomach. When she screamed, the Rocky Mountain News reports, one of the men flicked her tongue with the blade. The boy with the knife said: "You're lucky we don't rape you."
After awhile, the driver called the others back into the car, leaving Mora face down and covered with blood. Mora, who lives with her girlfriend's family, made her way home, where the Quintana family called an ambulance.
According to Denise de Percin, head of the Colorado Anti-Violence Program, Mora was released and is not in any danger of losing her life. Although the wounds may have been skin-deep, they were extensive and frightening to experience. A photo in the Rocky Mountain News shows the face of an attractive young woman, with close cropped hair, and numerous red welts across her forehead and cheeks.
"I was scared," Mora told the News. "I didn't know what these guys were going to do."
Although the Mora attack was unusual, de Percin said that violence against gay and lesbian youth is common in Colorado, as in fact it is everywhere. The state has been the scene of two high-profile crimes, the murder of Fred Martinez Jr., and the assault on Kyle Skyock in Rifle.
Last January, de Percin reports, 16-year-old Kapree Brown of Denver was beaten up by over a dozen assailants. "People beat you up and leave physical scars," said Brown. "But when it's because of who you are, it's the emotional scars that stay with you forever."
I also know when it ends the way I envision, the story will get little to no media coverage.
Didn’t some black women try this in Texas recently?
There was even a teacher in Florida who shot herself carefully through her side in her classroom before school hours to bring attention to gun violence, inventing an imaginary attacker.
So what ? Who gives a d#$% about some silly dyke. I think America has bigger fish to fry.
Face down? Silly me, I would have thought that a person would want to get a good look at the LICENSE PLATE NUMBER of the car while the perps are running away, plus any features of the perps now that they are running away.
I saw the phrase "Working Party", and said this guy must have been in the Marines. And you were. Semper Fi.
And Mr Sharpton, please pick up line three.
Do you recall what state it was that hosted the last "racist slasher" media show. The one starring that black lady with the "N" word carved backwards on her chest? A lot of hue and cry about that one until some astute detective pushed the issue and she admitted to doing it herself, in the mirror, with a friend to help corroborate the fantasy attack.
Got real quiet in the hand wringing gallery. That silence was the sound of all the media retractions.
I'm with you, I'll remain skeptical.
Interesting that the story doesn't mention any witnesses.
You know, anybody who could corroborate the story.
Forearm....hmmmm.
Opposite hand of the hand the "victim" writes with?
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