Posted on 03/28/2002 8:02:29 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Cha-ching, sounds like a winner (or runner-up) to me. Funny, I haven't heard a Freeper yet who thinks that she has got to be telling the truth, although we haven't heard from Sakic yet.
As a related note: more hidden but almost as prolific in young women as anorexia/bulimia is the problem of self cutting. It's less known because it can be hidden for a long time under clothing, unlike anorexia.
It will be easy to tell if she was a "cutter" by old scars.
Back to Ramallah.
Not my point. Let me ask you something, those boys that hung that queer on the barbed wire to die out in Wyoming...would you want one of them dating your sister?
The first line makes no sense. ("People who would do this are capable of doing this?" What is that babble?)
Things like this go on? It's national news at the slightest inkling of an accusation, and most them turn out to be bogus.
BTW, we all know about Matthew Shepherd, did you ever hear of Jesse Dirkheising?
Police re-interview possible hate crime victim
Written By: Web Producer Paola Farer March 28, 2002 - 10:13 PM
Girl says she was attacked because she is a lesbian
DENVER - Denver police are taking a hard look at the story of a teenage girl who claims she was attacked because she's gay.
Seventeen-year-old April Mora says she was thrown to the ground and cut by three men as she was walking in an alley near her home Tuesday. She showed 9NEWS the scratches on her face and body.
Detectives spent Thursday morning re-interviewing Mora. She says police asked her if her wounds were self inflicted and suggested she take a polygraph test.
"They think I did this to myself...so I don't know what's going on with them," Mora told 9NEWS reporter Heidi Hemmat.
Police say they are concerned about an inconsistency in Mora’s story. They say she told police that three men attacked her while a fourth man drove the car and then told some media organizations that there were three attackers.
Mora’s family is angry about the way the case has been handled so far. They say that her attackers are still free and police need to focus on finding them.
The proof will be in the age of the cuts on her. Morons don't realize that doctors can tell the age of a cut or bruise to within days; if she has old cuts on her, or cuts from different times, it will be easy to prove, and she's toast.
If somebody cut me up, I would want them brought to justice. Some rape victims want to cover up and not prosecute, but getting cut with a knife is not the same as being raped, AT ALL!!
Any question as to whether this is bogus?!
Thursday, March 28, 2002 - A Denver teen walking in an alley in west Denver on Tuesday afternoon said four men attacked her and carved slurs into her arm and stomach because she's a lesbian.
The 17-year-old girl told police that four men in a black Honda shouted names at her as she walked in the alley behind her home off West Colfax Avenue.
Three of the men got out of the car; two held her down while the third carved the word "dyke" into her left forearm as the car's driver shouted instructions, the girl told police.
The men, according to the police report, also carved the letters "RIP" into the girl's stomach and slashed her face.
After the attack, the girl was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where she was treated and released for several shallow razor cuts, none of which was life-threatening, authorities said.
The girl told police all four of her attackers were between 18 and 20 years old, and all were well-dressed. They drove a lowrider black Honda, police said.
The teen is convinced her attackers, whom she doesn't know, assaulted her because of her sexuality.
"I'm just going to try as hard as I can to get through it," the girl told 9News on Wednesday.
Denver police Lt. Gary Lauricella said the Denver district attorney's office would decide whether to prosecute the attack as a hate crime if the suspects are found.
"It's an aggravated assault because there are injuries," Lauricella said. "If it's determined to be a bias crime, it will be turned over to the district attorney for the appropriate charges."
Random attacks motivated by prejudice - like the one the teen said she suffered - are also very rare, he added.
"This is the first report I've seen in a long time," he said.
If someone hated her enough to attack her with a knife the wounds would show the hatred. They would be deep, random gouges of open flesh. People acting on hatred don't go about it by gently knicking their victim repeatedly about the head and neck, then carefully writing a clever word or two into the skin.
I'm even more skeptical after having seen the photo.
and did you notice someone also stabbed her through the lip with a silver bead?
She's a self cutter, dimes to donuts they will find old scars all over her.
Yep. People who report bogus crimes usually screw up because they don't have much of a clue about real crimes. They report their "crime" based on erroneous crap that they saw on TV or some stereotypical crap that they picked up somewhere. The cops pick up on their game after talking to them for about 3 minutes.
Sorry Bruce, I prefer the gals. Go find yourself another "honey".
BTW, we all know about Matthew Shepherd, did you ever hear of Jesse Dirkheising?
That has nothing to do with what I'm trying to say.
Folks who go around slicing others up, whether they're gay or not, are a definite detriment to society.
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