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.
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.