In which she fixes that for you
May. 13th, 2013 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborah
(Trigger warning for societal fubar-ness culminating in murder of a trans woman)
Township Police Chief John Minek told reporters that authorities identified the body Monday. Acoff, 20, of Cleveland, had been reported missing March 27. Her body was found April 17 clad in a red Betty Boop tank top, three black bras and a light black hooded jacket. She was naked from the waist down, police said at the time.
The slaying ends Acoff's attempts to be accepted as a woman, according to court records obtained by The Plain Dealer. In November 2010, RTA police said they were checking bus riders for proof of purchase when "we came across a female later identified as Carl Acoff.... Acoff gave us verbal information stating that [s]he was a female." She later admitted legal documents listed her as male.
Six months later, RTA police again stopped Acoff. They found her carrying hormones used to treat low estrogen in women, according to a police report.
Her body was found at 3:30 p.m. April 17 by a renter living in a two-unit apartment next to a retention pond on MacKenzie Road, north of Cook Road, in the township.
[Not being concerned about column inches on my blog, I elide some paragraphs about the area and the neighbours busy fertilising their gardens.]
Records indicate she faced several charges in Cleveland Municipal Court, with many linked to being a woman.
In December 2011, she was sentenced to six months in the county jail after she pleaded guilty to inducing panic and assault for squirting Mace in a man's face while on a bus.
The passengers had to evacuate the bus. Cuyahogo County Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman also ordered her to not to ride RTA buses after that.
A month later, in January 2012, she pleaded no contest, and a judge found her guilty of possession of dangerous drugs involving the hormones. She was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 100 days in jail.
In January 2011, she was fined $100 after pleading no contest and being found guilty in Municipal Court to misconduct involving public transportation. The charge involved her failing to pay a fare and telling officers that she was a woman.
(This post has been lightly copy-edited from the original news article. The online version has been edited multiple times in an attempt to conform to AP style without ever having to use the s-word ("she"). Comments are mixed, but pretty well moderated and there are some good ones. Many point out that if she hadn't been transgendered and black the article wouldn't have focused on her criminal record; however I don't actually agree with these commenters that this content is irrelevant to a report about her murder. On the contrary, I think it's quite likely she was murdered for exactly the same reason she was arrested and convicted so many times.)
Slain woman had been arrested for being a woman, records show
Cemia Acoff was stabbed repeatedly and dumped into a pond with her lithe body tethered to a block of concrete, a brutal ending to her long fight for acceptance, police say.Township Police Chief John Minek told reporters that authorities identified the body Monday. Acoff, 20, of Cleveland, had been reported missing March 27. Her body was found April 17 clad in a red Betty Boop tank top, three black bras and a light black hooded jacket. She was naked from the waist down, police said at the time.
The slaying ends Acoff's attempts to be accepted as a woman, according to court records obtained by The Plain Dealer. In November 2010, RTA police said they were checking bus riders for proof of purchase when "we came across a female later identified as Carl Acoff.... Acoff gave us verbal information stating that [s]he was a female." She later admitted legal documents listed her as male.
Six months later, RTA police again stopped Acoff. They found her carrying hormones used to treat low estrogen in women, according to a police report.
Her body was found at 3:30 p.m. April 17 by a renter living in a two-unit apartment next to a retention pond on MacKenzie Road, north of Cook Road, in the township.
[Not being concerned about column inches on my blog, I elide some paragraphs about the area and the neighbours busy fertilising their gardens.]
Records indicate she faced several charges in Cleveland Municipal Court, with many linked to being a woman.
In December 2011, she was sentenced to six months in the county jail after she pleaded guilty to inducing panic and assault for squirting Mace in a man's face while on a bus.
The passengers had to evacuate the bus. Cuyahogo County Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman also ordered her to not to ride RTA buses after that.
A month later, in January 2012, she pleaded no contest, and a judge found her guilty of possession of dangerous drugs involving the hormones. She was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 100 days in jail.
In January 2011, she was fined $100 after pleading no contest and being found guilty in Municipal Court to misconduct involving public transportation. The charge involved her failing to pay a fare and telling officers that she was a woman.
(This post has been lightly copy-edited from the original news article. The online version has been edited multiple times in an attempt to conform to AP style without ever having to use the s-word ("she"). Comments are mixed, but pretty well moderated and there are some good ones. Many point out that if she hadn't been transgendered and black the article wouldn't have focused on her criminal record; however I don't actually agree with these commenters that this content is irrelevant to a report about her murder. On the contrary, I think it's quite likely she was murdered for exactly the same reason she was arrested and convicted so many times.)
