Neighbors severely beat gay couple in Salt Lake over bizarre kidnapping charge
”This is not a hate crime…. We regret beating them up as badly as we did. But we don’t feel bad because what if it (had turned into) another case of murdered children?”
The mother of two “Polynesian” children who were missing and then found in a the next-door home of two gay men, David Bell and his partner Dan Fair. Bell says that he took the two wandering children in because the mother’s home was in the middle of an all-night party. The mother found the children at Bell’s home and several angry men then broke into the couples home, chased them out, and beat them severely breaking facial bones, hitting Fair in the head with a television, and causing deafness in Bell after hitting his head on the concrete repeatedly.(Desert News) (Salt Lake Tribune) (KUTV)
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