Police say lesbian faked brutal ‘hate crime’ attack: carved cross on own chest
LINCOLN, NE , August 22, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Charlie Rogers ’ story about crawling at 4 a.m. on a Monday morning – bound, bloodied, and baying – across the street to her neighbor’s house after being brutally attacked by three men seemed too horrific to be true. Yesterday, police in Lincoln, Nebraska , concluded it was just that. The 33-year-old lesbian, a former University of Nebraska women’s basketball star, arrived on the front door of her neighbor Linda Rappl’s house on July 22, with a story out of a horror movie. Three masked men had broken into her home, tied her up with plastic zip ties , carved a cross into her chest and anti-gay slurs into her arms and stomach, spray painted hateful words onto her walls, then tried to set her home on fire. “All I could see was a cut across her forehead and blood running down,” Rappl said . Rogers said the men held her down on her bed, cut her from her thighs to shins, then turned her over and sliced her from he...