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Queens County Grand Jury Indicts Two on Hate Crime Charges in Brutal Beating of Leslie Mora

Queens County Grand Jury Indicts Two on Hate Crime Charges in Brutal Beating of Leslie Mora

November 24, 2009 – The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds a Queens County grand jury's indictment of two men accused of brutally beating transgender woman Leslie Mora last June. Leslie was walking home from a nightclub on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights around 2:30 a.m. on June 19, 2009, at the height of LGBT Pride month, when two men accosted her and brutally beat her with a belt. They stopped only when a passing motorist... more