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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Yeah, but was it a fully semi-automatic axe with a high-capacity handle and a bump-head?
2 genders.
DNA, it’s hard science.
Cannot really imagine being in a Kwikee Mart at 2am but if I am I feel sorry for the poor sucker swinging an axe at me.
That is exactly the reason I dumped Fox. I got sick of having to edit in my head every time any of their libertarians had a discussion about such issues. They are so in line with the sexually perverted cult that I felt my ears get polluted just from listening to them.
It was heartwarming to read some of the comments after the article that have the same complaint.
Really. I’m trying to set my controls for the heart of the Sun...
When I was on a layover in New Orleans many years ago, I took a tour bus a round the city to see the sites. The bus driver had a good sense of humor. When he say a young man? who looked dressed like a woman or hippy, he said something to the effect of “Take your choice. He, she or it”.
I can’t imagine being hit like that with an axe and living.
I recently read that lesbian teens have a higher rate of pregnancy than their peers. The article said homosexual men are impregnating lesbian teens. Go figure. The madness just keeps getting worse.
Wrong location. In California, she could have gone to diversion therapy instead of jail. Nothing is illegal here if you have any mental health dx.
Hey now
My favorite campfire music on acid......
I can still recall deep in the Ozarks
Cold as hell and looking out the tent opening across the blazing campfire and there was that axe stuck in the log
Cold or not I got my ass up and put that sumbitch in my sleeping back
My fellow trippers all applauded “thank you”
After a serious test evening listening to The Floyd etc on some of Nick Sands finest no way could anybody sleep with that axe out there after hearing Eugene over and over
Ummagumma plus one
Long Pool Arkansas January 1975
Cold ...iced over
For Ole Miss boys the Ozarks were our closest significant hills
Close. ‘He has an AXE!” Christine Lakin’s expressions are priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5uxs4wQAhI
In "The Shining II", I assume Jack Nicholson will grow his hair, wear a dress, and say he's only doing swinging that ax because he's transitioning.
Hahahahahahahaha! Now THAT was funny! The guy in the back “But he has a chain saw!”
And absolutely...the facial expressions!
Mentally ill guy who thinks he’s a girl.
Contributory negligence. He's voluntarily on this hormone program. He's responsible for the consequences that flow from his decision.
Although, I don't buy the argument for an instant. A psych profile taken before the treatments would likely show serious anger issues and probably signs of delusion.
1975!! My experience was very similar but set in the woods of Wisconsin. Mr. Sandoz was involved.
There was a guy named Eugene with us.
The ax got locked in the trunk of my 1967 Fury and the keys stayed in the bottom of my sleeping bag.
Later we all went hunting for several species of small furry animals that we heard had gathered together in a cave to groove with a pict.
Never found them.
L
"They won't have any problems in the armed forces, bigot!"
If women are supposedly less violent than men, then saying you’re de-masculinizing is assumed to mean less violent. Not an excuse for violence.
“Be careful with that axe, Eugene...er…. Eugenia?”
Eugenie?
Well, there is rood rage. Ever heard of that?
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