Justice for Gwen Araujo(The Trial)

[etture]

Hey guys I know we enjoy this forum and its all fun but the gwen case is almost over.Her memory and family need all the support they can get its a retrial after a mistrial the first time.Read this blog http://www.gwenaraujo.blogspot.com/ It has all the info on the case if your not familier.Leave a comment Gwen's family has some comments on their.And remeber we have to stop this from ever happening again these guys deserve the same pain they brought to Gwen and all those who love her.

[Jenna]

This was so sad when I heard...I felt so bad for her. I hope those assholes suffer.

[Arnmake20]

i would say we should kill them or something... but remember an eye for and eye and we all go blind....

[edgeoflife]

I say, let the murderers suffer. Was an innocent teen.

[TSMorena35]

I'm so sorry for the family. It's a shame in this day and age that men still think old "I was so shocked so I killed" line is acceptable. If they were so upset with the fact that she was a TS, they should have kicked her out of their house and asked that she never returned, but to kill her, there is no justifying that.
This case just makes me think of the countless cases of TS found in garbage cans, lakes and the like, where no one is ever caught or punished.

[tsluver247]

Let's hope this event comes full circle and her killers get the justice they deserve for a ruthless crime.

[Hugh Jarrod]

OK this one strikes a cord with me. I live in the same area where this happened. A good friend of mine is a teacher at Gwen's school. What Gwen did was wrong tricking a guy into oral, and my heart bleeds for him (sarcasm). By no means though did it constitute a death penalty, why some people decide it's ok to take a human life for such a trivial thing is just wrong. A death penalty should be given when someone takes a life as those guys did. I hope they recieve death or at least life.

[edgeoflife]

Let Justice be served. Let her murderers get sentenced.

[DessiLu]

esstupid pendegos!!

[Jordan]

wow first Brandon Teena, now Gwen Araujo. makes you think we move a few steps forward then some bullshit such as this put us 10 steps back, Those guys deserve what they get and even the pussy that copped a plea to testify against the two others is a moron, a little too late to do the right thing now huh? God it sickens me that people are still savage like in their thought patterns...

[Harajuku Tgirl]

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[WUTANG]

yea then seriously need 2 b delt with

[Hugh Jarrod]

a little too late to do the right thing now huh?

Amen, no shit. Could've done the right thing and not killed anyone.

[Hugh Jarrod]

The jury has been deciding now for over three days and have said their decision has been made on 2 of the 3 suspects.

[Hugh Jarrod]

Two convictions.

Although there is no way to condone her murder, the fact is that she put herself into an unsafe and dangerous position by the actions she took.
I know plenty of TS's who do this - either for a kick or personal gratification of being able to pass as a female, or in the case of the working girls, for money and in my opinion, they're all putting themselves in the face of danger.
When there are homophobes (especially more than one together) and they feel like they've been tricked into having sex with a male when they thought it was a female, they're going to lash out. You drama queens who expect otherwise, aren't living in the real world.
I do think this is a hate crime and they should have been convicted of such, however I also think 15 to life is the sentence they deserve for murder and hopefully this will educate other young transgenders to be more cautious and those who perpetuate these crimes that they cannot use the excuse/defense that these idiots used.
seanchai

[~*MoNi*~]

you know, sometimes when u need the money depending on the situation u have no choice but to try to pass. when i was 15 i ran away from home in maryland. i took a greyhound to losangeles and survived out there alone for 6 months. i used to trick on sunset blvd with the real girls. blow jobs in cars for 80 bucks. until someone told me about santa monica and i made a killing down there. but for the couple months i was on sunset i truly had no idea how much danger i was in. all i knew is i had to survive. NO ONE should be murdered under any circumstances because taking a life is permanant. If anything guys who don't know someone is a transexual should be mad at themselves (a.) for picking up a stranger and (b.) because most of them are married anyway and i for one do not approve of cheating if your married.

you know, sometimes when u need the money depending on the situation u have no choice but to try to pass. when i was 15 i ran away from home in maryland. i took a greyhound to losangeles and survived out there alone for 6 months. i used to trick on sunset blvd with the real girls. blow jobs in cars for 80 bucks. until someone told me about santa monica and i made a killing down there. but for the couple months i was on sunset i truly had no idea how much danger i was in. all i knew is i had to survive. NO ONE should be murdered under any circumstances because taking a life is permanant. If anything guys who don't know someone is a transexual should be mad at themselves (a.) for picking up a stranger and (b.) because most of them are married anyway and i for one do not approve of cheating if your married.

Yet I'm sure you've known you've had married clients and therefore became a willing accomplice or condoning their cheating?
While I'm sure there are plenty of similar tragic stories where a girl has had to pretend to be a female to make money, nevertheless it was her onus which had her dupe the guy. I can think of a few people who should be murdered but this poor individual was not one of them - she put herself in the wrong circumstances and made a bad judgement call, the consequences though far outweigh any mistakes she made.
seanchai

[~*MoNi*~]

i'm not married therefore that doesn't apply to me. even though im not 15 anymore im still doing what i do to survive, but trust and belive the day i get married i will no longer escort.

do u remember when u n me were on the golden gate bridge in san fran seanchai and u bet me 50 bucks that me n my ex wouldn't last 1 year cuz he kept calling me on my cell phone while we were shooting mixed nuts? we lasted 3. u owe me 50. lol.

lets make another bet.... when u come to my wedding gimme a hundred n i'll give u a promise you'll never see me on eros again.

[seanchai]

I wouldn't take that bet....
...but you nicely side-stepped my original point :oops:

seanchai

[Ecstatic]

Yes, Gwen put herself in a dangerous position, and that's her complicity in the hate crime. But that merely exposed her to danger, it in no way absolves the perpetrators of the crime of their heinous actions. Murder is never justified, and if those guys get off in 15, that's a slap on the wrist. They should be locked up for life. While I don't condone it, I could understand if they beat Gwen (and they would still deserve punishment), but they didn't simply beat her, they mercilessly killed her and buried her in a shallow grave. To me, that's first degree murder, no matter that she tricked them into thinking she was a woman.

The point is valid, however, that girls should be aware of this risk. I understand Moni's perspective, especially at 15 tricking on Santa Monica Blvd (nasty that any girl--gg or tg--would feel compelled to trick at such a young age), but the point remains that such a girl is putting herself at risk.