August 15, 2006

Gay Panic raised again

The suspects in the torture of an 18-year old gay male in Santa Fe are claiming they did it, in part, because one of them was told by another, that the gay male had touched his bottom.

A statement of probable cause, filed by the prosecutor in state District Court says York told police that he was told by Segura that the victim had tried to grab his butt.

York said he had not felt a grope but was upset by what Segura had told him.

And, assuming there’s any truth to this, what was the response?

...The statement goes on to quote from an interview given to police by the minor male in the case where the youth said he, York and Segura tied down the victim, placed a torn T-shirt over his face, dragged him to a deserted field and began beating him…

... The victim suffered bleeding on the brain and a concussion as well as facial lacerations and bruising...

That seems fair.

Comments:

dolphin said (at August 15, 2006 12:51 PM):

Does this mean that when that random girl whistled at me in Wal-mart, and then asked if I was single, I would've been ok to take her out in the parking lot and run her over with my car?

The very notion that the "gay panic defense" is even seen as possible option for a defense team is beyond belief.

What ever happened to just saying "I'm not interested, sorry."

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