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 think that most of us have enough of a sense of decency that however perverted we think homos are, we don't believe in that brand of vigilante judgment.
Give us more credit than that.
I think many of us feel threatened by a pervasive ideology that is antithetical to what we feel a decent society is like... I would venture to say that a fair number of us don't subscribe to views like that of RepublicanChick, "Homosexuality is not learned, it is not something that one chooses." I realize that's the PC view; whether one believes it or not makes all the difference in the world on how one views gays...
Idiot
But then again, in the tolerant minds of liberals, they shouldnt be punished for the hoax. After all, it COULD happen, and they were just trying to raise "awareness." Which many times has been the defense used to defend these types of hoaxers. And the more often these hoaxes occur, the harder it is for victims of actual attacks to be taken serious and get justice.
No they don't. Thugs do not leave the delicate tracings of a self-mutilator with their razors.
Maybe she was heckled by group of pr**ks is a passing car. That could have been a trigger. Cutters will act out when they are angry, panicked, or deeply anxious.But it's plain she's confabulating about the assault.
The girl needs help - that part isn't imaginary.
Or at least they should, so you can be outraged about it.
"I hope sombody really hurts you, so I can hurt them back." -- Frank Sinatra
I'm dyng to hear the Upper Nyack story. LOL
If you mean the historical roots of these things, yeah, who gives a rat's @$$?! I do know that in modern times, up until quite recently, it was indeed the seedy underclass who did these things. I'm old enough to have seen this. As to why people do it now: herd mentality, of course.
Funny how that works. Good call!
Her family/parents probably saw her various cuts and asked her about them and she probably made up the story about being attacked to cover herself.
Forgive me for not being articulate enough in clarifying my point, which I though was very clear.
Wrong, I'm not outraged.
Do you're simian friends have the same reading comprehension trouble as you do?
Auburn fan are ya?
Where do you get this idea?
They don't even try to read or write. There's something to be said about knowing one's limitations, eh?
Since when does a razor only produce welts? Any witnesses to this "attack"? Sounds like BS.
In all seriousness, and not meaning to join the current flaming on the thread, really? I am seriously unaware of any case like this that didn't involve a hoax. I know about people slashed and disfigured with knives. But not about people carving words into others. Is there any incident like this you're actually aware of? Or were you making a more general point about gay-bashing?
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