[BeAllYouCanBe]

Newark is a small bedroom community in Alameda County in the East Bay of San Francisco where murders are very rare and 17 year olds usually go to malt shops for fun.

[gg188]

OMG. We are never going to hear the end of this one now. The new Matthew Shepard. Except now the cause celebre will be transexualism.

A sort of sidebar comment of mine: right or wrong---how much brains does it take to know that it isn't nice to fool young, virile males like this? Duh. Throughout history---and you don't have to be a psychologist to figure this out---men, when deceived like this, can become violent. For whatever reason, right or wrong: their masculinity threatened, peer pressure, homophobia, WHATEVER! Duh.

Makes you wonder if this guy was "cruising" like Matthew Shepard was, i.e., seeking "the rough trade"---lifestyle which many gay men live in, in which they seek out straight men hoping to get roughed up, and they get off on it (something well-known but skillfully and intentionally omitted by media in the Shepard case.)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Killing was a little severe; a good whipping-socially sanctioned-would have been more appropriate and ultimately more curative.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

This is a Ping to some Freepers that were on a Gay Lesbian thread last weekend -- what a shock to me that this weekend this made headlines in my home town. That people encourage this very dangerous behavior shocks me.

Gay-Lesbian Youth Center Opens

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/767905/posts

[martin_fierro]

We won't hear a PEEP about the story of the murderous transvestite, though.

[martian_22]

Murder, perversion, drugs, alchohol, hate, deception, sexual rage, twisted corrupted youths.

An article that speaks to the depths today's society has sunk to.

Malt shop kids you say?

[Newbomb Turk]

How Queer.

[StJulian Perlmutter]

"Newark is a small bedroom community in Alameda County in the East Bay of San Francisco where murders are very rare and 17 year olds usually go to malt shops for fun." I don't know what Newark you are talking about. As a deputy in Santa Clara county, we had multiple mutual-aid calls from Newark each week.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Police began searching for Araujo when his mother reported him missing Oct. 5. She was reluctant to call police sooner because her son had previous run-ins with police, according to court records. She told police her son had a substance abuse problem.

Just your normal everyday teenager.

[rockfish59]

I'll bet the first reaction was to put out an APB on all white males driving white vans!

[F.J. Mitchell]

This kid was murdered-murder is a crime punishable by death upon conviction. So what is the point of the so called hate crime enhancement?

How come it is only news worthy in the mind of the liberal media when deviates are killed? Seems from what we have been allowed to have knowledge of by the press of late-the homosexuals are killing more people than there are people killing homosexuals.

[Thinkin' Gal]

He told police that Magidson and Merel had a previous sexual encounter with Araujo before anyone suspected he wasn't a woman, according to the records.

[Publius6961]

Is Free Republic becoming the perverts' bulletin board now?
How many times must this be posted?

This is neither news nor worthy of further discussion.

Try posting at Jerry Springer.

[HitmanLV]

In any event, murdering this young (and what I would consider very troubled) teen wasn't a good thing to do. I hope they lock up these perps for life.

This is also another example why adding an additional 'hate crime' charge is downright silly. The victim is no more (nor less) harmed by the addition of such a charge. Dead is dead. This was a crime of hate just as any crime is a crime of hate.

Time for these guys to take responsibility for their murderous actions. Lock 'em up in prison - thats where they belong.