Attackers carve slur on young lesbian

Reuters ^ | Thu Mar 28, 7:58 PM ET | Ann Rostow, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network

[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."

[Phantom Lord]

Note in the photo, she's into body piercing and tattoos, both good indicators that she's a self cutter.

Thats total BS. I have tattoos and piercings and lots of my friends do and not a single one is a "self cutter." You are making assumptions based on fantasy and your apparant dislike for tattooed and pierced people. Got any evidnce to back up your wild claim?

[ICE-FLYER]

This story has so many holes in it. No police agency is called to confirm a single thing. What I fully believe is this, it is nothing more than an Activist who did personal injury to herself and then came up with the excuse, the gay and lesbian organizations salivate they get it in the press as fact as long and hard as they can then when it is called false it just goes away but the perception stays in the minds of people which is what the gay and lesbian organizations want. Truth be damned.

[FR_addict]

If this story is true the perpetrators were awfully careful in their cutting. It doesn't look like she will have any permanent scars.

Anyone who had so much hate as to attack this girl, would not be so careful.

I don't believe her. Maybe she was just making herself another tatoo like the other one on her arm.

[The Old Hoosier]

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[The Old Hoosier]

What ever happened to that alleged anti-homo house burning in Montana? Have they found any suspects, or did they know better than to waste their time looking?

[bert]

How does one distinguish between slur and truth.

[The Old Hoosier]

More likely, she was embarassed she'd cut herself shaving.

[sakic]

I have no idea whether the story is true or not. You don't have a clue either. The only thing I'm sure of is your need to put your agenda out there.

[longfellow]

Tawana brawleys wasn't written backwards. the word "nigger" was spelt wrong. besides that I lived near there and no one is going to survive 3 days in the woods naked in winter time.

[sixmil]

Probably a gay lovers' spat. A few years ago, also in Denver, there was a black girl who said she was jumped by a pack of neo-nazis, and it turned out she made up the story.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Hey, thanks! I couldn't get anything to come up on a search for Smithee's username. There are periods after the L and N. When searching for a username, if you don't type it in exactly, it won't come up. Thanks for the help.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

You are correct, piercing (besides ears) is mainly a druggie sub-culture thing. It's funny that a kid that I was in college with had pierced eyebrows, a hoop through his lip, and pierced tongue and then would complain that people think he is a druggie. If you look the part, what do you expect?

[Snuffington]

Another Tawana Brawley knock off. No doubt the left will insist it is totally true, and the equivalent of a hate crime to even question it, even when her story starts to crumble, as it inevitably will.

[Osinski]

more hidden but almost as prolific in young women as anorexia/bulimia is the problem of self cutting

My understanding is that cutting is well known as a symptom of sexual abuse. Is there a cutting epidemic unrelated to this?

[Lazamataz]

Self mutilation is not an uncommon psychological manifestation.

[SarahW]

Seems pretty obvious to me the "attack" as she described it did not occur. All that's left if the recant pool... how long until.

[Travis McGee]

Is that you in 161 or 167?

[Phantom Lord]

Neither.

[Travis McGee]

I am not aware of other causes.