Transgender Scumbag Finally Off The Streets
January 26th, 2010 by BabeThe victim who was only identified as Lena H, was picked up in the Tenderloin, choked and sexually assaulted before she managed to escape, naked. The jury convicted him of forcible oral copulation, robbery, assault, and causing great bodily injury to Lena. Judge Donald Mitchell cited Francis’ “complete lack of remorse” for the attack on Lena H. in passing sentence in San Francisco Superior Court.
Donzell Francis, the convicted [tJudge Donald Mitchell cited Francis' "complete lack of remorse" for the attack on Lena H. in passing sentence in San Francisco Superior Court. ag]sexual predator[/tag] and suspected murderer and rapist of transgender prostitutes is a suspect in as many as four sexual assaults in addition to the one for which he was sentenced Monday. One of the attacks in which Francis is a suspect is the March 2007 rape and strangulation of another transgender prostitute, Ruby Ordenana. DNA evidence recovered after officers found Ordenana’s body matched a sample from Francis, police said, but no charges have been filed against him pending further testing.
There appears to have been at least three woman who were victims of Francis, and more surprisingly that these attacks may have been averted, had DNA linked to the crimes not been allowed to gather dust for two years in a San Francisco crime lab. Reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle have now learned that all three woman were victims of the same attacker, and more surprisingly that these attacks may have been averted, had DNA linked to the crimes not been allowed to gather dust for two years in a San Francisco crime lab.
The case with Francis is a stark reminder of the high rate of unsolved cases in violent crimes against transgender men and women. The International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which memorializes those killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice, recently celebrated its 11th anniversary in November of 2009. ITDR was conceived following the November 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a crime that has yet to be solved.
On their website, the founders of ITDR have compiled a database of all violent crimes perpetrated against transgender men and women since 1995. According to their data, a recent wave of international crimes have skyrocketed the rate of violent attacks to an average of 11 per month since January 2009.
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