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."
Bella, Are you a big druggie?
I see you have zero knowledge of the history of tattooing and piercing. And probably even less interest in learning it or why people do it.
So many fallacies, so little time. Your total post is indicative of a clueless or sheltered existence.
Firstly, it is obvious to most everyone that the girl is lying. Look at her picture page one. See how the word "dyke" is so carefully cut? Do you really think that men on a rampage against lesbians would exercise this level of care?
Secondly, your post is riddled with liberal pablum about homosexuality. Homosexuality is not about loving caring committed relationships. It is about immature compulsion with sexual activity. Why do you think gays get done 2-3 times a day? Why do you think they boink each other in often times dirty public places? Why do you think that despite the aids epidemic for which we're supposed to find a cure, gay men continue to seek random partners and have unprotected sex? Why do you think that lifetime "caring committed relationships" are all but non-existent? Monogamy is not part of the gay scene. Why do you think they prey on adolescent children?
You are unaware and misinformed. Your "let's all just get along" idea is nice, but when your child (of which I'm sure you don't have any over the age of 5) is exposed to the "tolerance of diversity" in the factory schools, you'll prefer moral standards.
I can see you haven't read the lastest outrage about the "fisting" lecture funded with taxpayer dollars in Massachusettes a while back. People who were previously homo-tolerant got their eyes opened in a hurry. By spouting your uninformed idealistic drivel, you allow the cancer to grow.
Um....no it wasn't. Look at the picture...looks like it was scratched on her arm with a fingernail.
Had it been "carved" on her arm with a razor, she would have had 20-30 stitches.
*sigh* Will the press EVER stop telling lies?
Here it is. And here's another that might be closer to this particular case: Hate Crime? No, FAKE Crime! Cops Say Gay Activist Scammed NJ College Into Pro-Homo Frenzy
Was is spelled "Niger"? If so, I bet they just mistook young Tawwanna for one a them shifty Nigerians. hehe
I wouldn't be surprised if Al Sharptongue shows up with "Phat, racist homie. signed, da white man" carved upside-down and backwards accross his left buttock with a permanent marker. He can smell a "guilt" frenzy a mile away and doesn't like being left out.
This culture has decayed into a parody of it's own principles. You gotta laugh.
Just a note here, I read about Dirkheising on the Free Republic and that's the ONLY place I ever read about it. Funny how that sort of thing works, huh.
It might be bogus. She refused to take a polygraph test.
Yep that's what gets me with all this Shepard hype-- "poor sweet lil' fag-boy angel"... Bullsh!t. I ain't gonna say he was asking for it, because I ain't gonna sit here and condone what those kids did to him, but he wasn't sittin' around wearing halos, folks. "Martyr" my hairy Republican a$$. Call a spade a spade.
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