Posted on 08/03/2018 7:11:39 PM PDT by simpson96
An Australian woman who injured two people during a convenience store ax attack has been convicted of attempted murder after jurors reportedly rejected her argument that she was suffering from a mental episode caused by medications she was taking to transition from male to female.
Evie Amati, 26, was found guilty Friday for the unprovoked 2017 attack in Sydney and will face sentencing in September, according to the BBC.
"I really hope that [Amati] is able to have some sort of rehabilitation because ultimately that's what justice is about,” Sharon Hacker, a victim who suffered a fractured skull in the attack, told reporters following the verdict.
On January 7 last year, Amati was captured on surveillance video walking into a 7-Eleven store carrying an ax around 2 a.m. local time.
She walked up to a man waiting in line at the cash register, later identified as Ben Rimmer, and talked to him briefly before swinging the ax at him, the BBC reported. Rimmer fell to the ground with a facial wound and fractures, while Hacker was then attacked near the door.
Amati also targeted a third man outside the store, but he managed to protect himself by using his backpack as a makeshift shield.
The BCC reported that Amati was arrested outside the store. During her trial, the victims said they thought she had come from a costume party when she walked into the store with the weapon.
Amati pleaded not guilty and told jurors that she was in a bad mental state because she was taking hormones to help her transition from male to female, the station added.
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It was her first time dealing with PMS...
Careful with that ax, Eugene.
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Be careful with that axe, Eugene...er…. Eugenia?
I have not heard that in years!!!!!!!!
Well. It is a good thing this guy is going to jail. That poor man in the still frame had no idea what was coming his way. I can’t imagine being hit like that with an axe and living.
He might have a point. I can only imagine the havoc these drugs play on a healthy body.
Still, dude needs to go to prison. A MALE prison!
The Fox News people are sexually confused and should have asked a healthier person to help with the headline.
Sexually Confused Man on Drugs Convicted for Ax Attack
Which prison will he be put in?
Or will thy build as special one just for him?
Maybe this was his plan all along?
I’m to ugly to get a man, so where could I go to be accepted as a woman?
Which prison will he be put in?
Or will thy build as special one just for him?
Maybe this was his plan all along?
I’m to ugly to get a man, so where could I go to be accepted as a woman?
A tranny with a ax...not a good mix.
How about Eufreak?
Yeah but trannies are perfectly mentally sound, they were just born in the wrong body! /s
I guess it wasn’t an ax free zone.
I’ve never meet a sane tranny.
There was a recent story from the UK of a pre-op transgender woman (aka a sexually confused XY male) being housed in a women’s prison. He sexually assaulted 4 women and was “visably aroused” per the report.
Who could have ever predicted or expected such a thing!?
Another example that this is a mental illness.
This man probably has been effected by all those hormones he’s been pumping into his system over months, if not years.
No one really knows how this effects people in the long run, but it’s always very dangerous to alter or mess with your hormone levels if you are not a doctor.
Some effects are irreversible. High blood pressure, heart rates unsteady or racing, confused thought pattern. Flashes of depression or unprovoked anger due to mood swings. That said, he needs to be locked away in hospital for the criminally insane, trans or no trans, he’s extremely unpredictable and dangerous. Lock Him Up!!
There was a Broadway Show with a similar theme out some four or five years ago. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Free-Rep. may not be the proper forum to describe the story line. It’s online if you are curious.
Not Guilty!
I’d hit it with My Vista Crusier!
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