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."
and folks who go around slicing themselves up, then blaming it on the boogyman of the left (white males), and the media who go around lapping that lie up and spreading the malicious mischaracterizations through an entire society...those people aren't a detriment to society?
I'd rather have a nut with a knife in front of me than a yammering gaggle of reports echoing an endless stream of lies about me. At least you can shoot the knife weilding attacker. You can't do anything about these hand wringing slander weilders.
Bottom line is, this gal did this to herself and she knows exactly what to say to send the media into a hunt hunting frenzy.
In a real attack of this type, I strongly suspect stitches would be needed to close the wounds.
As others have pointed out, a forearm is a really weird place to carve something on a person. Someone trying to express their sexual hatred would surely be much more likely to use the face or other more personal areas.
As in, "I'm a homophobic psycho. I think I'll track down a lesbian and (very carefully) carve (in very small letters) a slur into her arm." (?)
Absolutely does not compute. Anybody want to bet money?
Whether this story is true or not is irrelevant to the point I'm trying to make.
Now, E_M_B, I don't appreciate the homos anymore than you or the others here, (keep your eye on the former SEAL though, he's a penchant for callin' guys "honey").
But in an orderly society you cannot have rogues running around killing people and the other members of that society dismissing it because it was perpetrated on a class of undesirables.
Now you tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the feeling that most of you folks who see hoodlums that beat up, and/or kill, gays as 'friends of society'.
Hope my explainin' score goes up.
nothing humbles like typo :)
If you are addressing me, among others, let me say that if this attack turns out to be genuine, I'll be the first to recommend the maximum penalty for her attackers.
However, it screams phony all over it. I've never seen a more obviously phony story. (With possible exception of the black lady who carved the mirror image into herself.)
BTW, does Vegas run book on things like this?
It's not that we're approving of the crime, it's that we believe no crime occurred. (Except false reporting.)
No one here is feeling "glee" from a poor woman's attack. There was no attack with which to feel "glee" about.
If there was a legitimate attack (which this obviously was not), I doubt many FReepers would feel "glee" at all.
Or giving better than racetrack odds.
What does it say about HER, if she did it to HERSELF?
The use of the term "jig" was very racist of you! I smell a lot more hate crimes here.
Let's not forget, the Denver PD kept "surveillance" files on over 3,000 people and like 150 plus organizations that were considered peaceful/non-violent. Somebody at the top there must have had a fetish for Hoover.
I remember about twenty or so years ago a semi-famous fashion model was attacked in NYC by an obsessed stalker. This guy carved her face to shreds. She still occasionally appears on TV on shows about stalking and her face is still very disfigured 20 years later. That is what a hate-filled man with a knife does.
Her "crime" was belonging to the oppressive caucasian race.
Depends on the bet. If it's "Did she do this to herself?", I'll take the bet. She didn't.
If it's "Is this story true?", I won't take the bet. It's not.
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