Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Survivor of hate-crime attack jumps from cruise ship, dies - International Herald Tribune
A teenager who survived a brutal pipe beating and later testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a hate crimes bill died after jumping from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico, his father said Monday.
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Ritcheson, a Mexican-American, was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole by two men shouting "White Power!" during a drug-fueled party in April 2006. He was hospitalized for more than three months and endured more than 20 painful surgeries in the months following the attack. ...
A teenager who survived a brutal pipe beating and later testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a hate crimes bill died after jumping from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico, his father said Monday.
...
Ritcheson, a Mexican-American, was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole by two men shouting "White Power!" during a drug-fueled party in April 2006. He was hospitalized for more than three months and endured more than 20 painful surgeries in the months following the attack. ...
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