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Title: Florida Teen Guilty in Transsexual Assault, But Not of Hate Crime
Post by: Suzy on July 09, 2007, 02:01:56 PM
Gay City News (http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18555119&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568857&rfi=6)
By: ANDY HUMM

A 17-year-old man who brutally beat a transsexual, 39, after discovering during sex that she had a penis was convicted of aggravated battery in Palm Beach County Juvenile Court, but not of a hate crime, the Miami Herald reported. Names of victim and perpetrator are being withheld.