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Man Pleads Guilty for Gay Bashing in Buffalo


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A Buffalo, N.Y., man pleaded guilty on Monday to felony assault for beating a gay man outside a bar on August 3, 2008, according to the Buffalo News.

Joshua Holts, a 26-year-old supermarket meat supervisor, faces up to seven years in prison. He will remain free on previously posted bail until his sentencing hearing on January 11, 2010.

Holts was caught on surveillance cameras repeatedly punching his 48-year-old victim while shouting antigay slurs at him outside a bar in Springville, a village in the Buffalo suburbs. According to WKBW-TV, Scott suffered a fractured skull, nine broken bones in his face, a ruptured ear drum, and a detached retina.

Prosecutor Robin J. Deubler said the victim, who is only identified by his first name, Scott, had just undergone his fourth surgery to correct his left eye damage and partial facial paralysis. Scott was a carpet installer from Atlanta, visiting his mother who lived in the Buffalo area.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: margaret fitz
    Date posted: 10/22/2009 7:25:50 PM
    Hometown: springville,ny

    Comment:

    this hateful despicable crime occured in MY town;the place i live. it happened over a year ago and now it's news? this man was left for DEAD on a sidewalk that i walk on almost daily. this crime was caught on tape. the defense lawyer defends everyone and their bro. who destroys humanity as long as they can afford his fees. please,puhlease, this was news 2 friggin yrs. ago.

  • Name: Franz
    Date posted: 10/20/2009 10:01:11 PM
    Hometown: Seattle

    Comment:

    Why is it necessary to list his occupation....I don't know, as an anthropologist I am always reading too much into things but I just sounds too much like a class assurance that only meat packers, and blue collar workers beat gay people up. Maybe the blue collar workers are the ones doing the work that our educated white collar workers and states people would do but are too busy outsourcing the dirty work.. You know like they do with their wars, and gentrification, and other horrors. They are no better with their white collar discrimination and complicity in murder of the people they don't like and discrimination of the people that are not straight.

  • Name: chin
    Date posted: 10/20/2009 5:34:18 PM
    Hometown: seattle

    Comment:

    Looks like he'll be supervising his meat behind bars for a while. FAIL!!



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