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."
Although they may have targeted her due to her skin color, I doubt they would have walked away had she not been white.
I saw the photo. I think they carved "dyke."
"Slur" is spelled differently.
Since most piercings are not self-performed, then by definition they are not self-mutilation. Masochism, perhaps, but not self-mutilation.
Probably 95% of all the women you know and a goodly percentage of the men have piercings of some sort. Does that imply they are into self-mutilation?
Which of course, is what I found objectionable about the post: the implication that anyone who has a piercing or tattoo is prone to slicing themselves up with a razor. A ridiculous implication if one gives any thought to the matter. More likely a refelection of the posters own bias against piercings anywhere other than the female ear.
Depends on how he is aside from the queer thing .... is a good person besides that ?
I'm sick and tired of having this PC crap shoved down my throat that homosexuality is normal. It's NOT.
Get over it. More people are killed by abortion mills and drunk drivers than some lady who in all probability did this to herself.
This is a small crime that wouldn't even be noteworthy if it weren't for the fact that she is a lesbian.
Think the media would make a story a cause celebre if she was a chistian girl that was attacked ?
Huh? What's that mean? They cut her to shreds after gang raping her, they left her for dead, intended to kill her. "Walked away"? I don't get it.
ROTLMAO!
Ya know, Homer, time was when FR didn't resort to crying to the admin because they didn't like what someone else posted. They actually used logic and facts to defeat/reveal the ignorance of liberal ideology. I'm glad you got a laugh, and am intrigued that I "make [my]self look very clear" for pointing out the childishness of your post. Good day.
95% of the females you know are body pierced? Where do you hang out, the Hell's Angels club house?
My point is that a group intent on gang rape would probably be glad to rape a black or Asian woman if a white woman isn't available. Equal opportunity, you know.
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