MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.

By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.

"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgender friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like many transgender and gay people in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.

"It was horrible. It was so, so painful to see him like that." International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people. After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups "the worst any of us has ever seen."

The teenager was viciously assaulted and apparently half-conscious for some two hours before another sustained attack finished him off, according to Khloe, who was also beaten and nearly raped. She hid in a nearby church and then the surrounding woods, unable to call for help because she didn't have her cellphone.


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how tragic,,,,

such viscious violence


and a child dead,,,,terrible

shouldn't have been something he's not... maybe that will teach these "transgender" people to not mix with people that don't want it... being gay is one thing, but trying to trick non gays into it is a bad deal...

It is wrong to try to trick people, I agree with that

but that in no way justifies anyones life being taken

which one of us, or anyone else has NEVER done any wrong in their life

and especially a child,, who Is supposed to be given time to grow and learn to do better,,,,

everyone dies... part of the life cycle.. just a matter of when and how... he made some bad decisions that ended his, just as the bad decision to beat him till he was dead... bad decisions are just one cause of death...

not every 'bad decision' leads to death

its tragic when a child dies, they are the ones expected to make some 'bad decisions',,,,

well, apparently his did...

Nonsense! What happened was a crime.

they are a rough Lot!
Some of them would pick a Fight with a Corner in a Round Room!
Hope they'll get those responsible!

yea, he was trying to dupe straight guys into thinking he was a woman...

and he deserved to get murdered for that?
Besides,he didn't leave with any of the Guys,or become intimate with any!
It's something in the Jamaican Water!

deserved it or not, it happened... and we don't know that he didn't get "cozy" with any straight guys, the media reports things how they want, not what actually happened...