EIGHT ARRESTED IN BRUTAL NY ANTI-GAY ATTACK
Eight of nine gang members have been arrested following a brutal attack in New York City’s Bronx district of two teens and a man because they are gay.
The gang, who call themselves the Latin King Goonies, first kidnapped a 17-year-old boy who had apparently wanted to join the group. He was held in an apartment where he was forced to admit to having sex with a 30 year old man, apparently his boyfriend.
According to police the teen was stripped naked, beaten, cut and sodomised with the wooden handle of a plunger.
The gang later abducted another 17 year old and also accused him of having had a relationship with the same older man.
Finally, the 30 year old man was lured to the apartment and the gang forced the second teen to beat the man and burn him with cigarettes. The man was also beaten with a chain and sodomised with a small baseball bat.
The gang took the man’s keys and went to his apartment and robbed his brother of cash, a TV and debit cards.
“These suspects employed terrible wolf-pack odds of nine-against-one, odds which revealed them as predators whose crimes were as cowardly as they were despicable,” commented Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
“Like many New Yorkers, I was sickened by these antigay crimes,” said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “The heartless men who committed these crimes should know that New Yorkers will not tolerate them.”
The suspects have been charged with robbery, sodomy, menacing and assault as hate crimes. Some of the gang-members told police that they were forced to take part in the attack by their leader, Ildefonso (Cheto) Mendez.
One of the suspects, Ruddy Vargas-Perez, remains at large.
…… May I just ask, what the F*** is going on? With all the suicides lately and the increase in violence towards LGBT people, is it now time to make our stand?
We have religious leaders (a certain Mormon twat who used a sermon to preach against the “evils” of homosexuality and gay marriage) and a NY Republican who said being gay is “dysfuntional” adding fuel to the flames of homophobia. Do these idiots not stop to think of the consquences their words are having? They are giving people the reasons to seek out vulnerable LGBT people and harm them. They are condoning this violence against us. This coming days and weeks after young people have killed themselves. This after families are in mourning for their sons and daughters. This after HUMAN LIVES have vanished.
While it is awesome to see movie stars and singers support anti-homophobic campaigns considering recent events, we need more politicians with balls to stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. But they are cowards. Chickens. Spineless wimps. Gutless.
The time is now. This is a war we are fighting and we are losing. It’s us against them. It’s our freedom, our equality, our lives were are fighting for. And I for one will NOT have my life devalued by anyone!!