A victim of two sadistic nitwits and also possibly of political correctness was 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, who died by torture and suffocation in 1999.
The boy, who was gay, had been working at the hair salon owned by Davis Carpenter, 38. Carpenter and his partner, Joshua Brown, 22, had made Dirkhising their sex toy. The boy's parents unwisely had allowed him to spend weekends with the couple.
In September 1999, the two men bound, drugged and gagged the boy, then tied him to a mattress and sodomized him repeatedly. Due to the way he was tied to the mattress, Dirkhising slowly suffocated.
The two older men indicated that they had not meant to kill the boy, but were merely playing a game. Each received a life sentence.
Conservatives complained that because the assailants were gay, this grisly case got less media play than did the earlier beating death of young gay man Matthew Shepard.
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