Transgender woman gets 12 years for stabbing friend to death
By Keith Fraser, The Province
October 12, 2012http://www.theprovince.com/news/Transgender+woman+gets+years+stabbing+friend+death/7382578/story.html<<TRIGGER WARNING: FULL ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE DESCRIPTIONS>>
A transgendered woman who stabbed a male friend to death will have to spend 12 years in jail before she can apply for parole.
Thomas Roy Forster, 35, pleaded guilty to the June 2010 second-degree murder of Zachary Waller, 21.
On Friday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Terry Schultes imposed the mandatory life sentence on Forster, a sex trade worker who was undergoing hormone therapy at the time of the slaying.
"I would characterize this as massive, frenzied and protracted explosion of violence at a sometime romantic partner, following sexual contact, fuelled by anger and by statements by the partner of his ongoing commitment to another woman, said the judge.
Forster's lawyer outlined a difficult upbringing for his client. She was raised by adoptive parents but left home at one point, becoming addicted to crack cocaine and working as a male prostitute. She returned home but went back to the sex trade, advertising herself on Craigslist as a transgendered sex trade worker under a female pseudonym.
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