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6 May, 12 tweets, 5 min read
BREAKING: A senate bill to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’ on the island of Puerto Rico has FAILED.
7 voted to ban
8 voted against banning
Senate president, Jose Luis Dalmau Santiago, from the popular democratic party did not even show up to vote.
Experts say CV is abusive & cruel.
Reaction from a young man who underwent CV on the island as a teenager and testified before the committee: “HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?!? IM
EMBARRASSED OF MY ISLAND. IM ASHAMED. IM SO SAD THAT KIDS WILL GO THROUGH WHAT I WENT THROUGH. F**KING POLITICS MAN. EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE.”
Part 2 of this statement: “I just want to crawl in my bed and cry, David. It is what it is. My island has and will continue to have shit leadership because it deserves exactly that. I'm sorry for these strong words but I need to vent.” This is from @mardito_gutavo
An emotional reaction from Giancarlo Colberg Ferrer (part 1)
An emotional reaction from Giancarlo Colberg Ferrer (part 1)
Reaction from @PedroJulio
An emotional video reaction from @mardito_gutavo
Reaction from congresswoman @NydiaVelazquez
Reaction from congressman @RitchieTorres
Heartfelt reaction from @ajvalentincama
More information washingtonblade.com/2021/05/06/bil…
Puerto Rico currently has an executive order in effect banning conversion therapy in public institutions/places run by the govt. It was signed by fmr Gov @ricardorossello and will remain in place under Gov @pedropierluisi who is not considering ending the order.

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7 May
BREAKING: FL. State Attorney Amira Fox DECLINES to prosecute Hendry Co. principal Michelle Charter who “beat” a 1st grader with a paddle. Fox says the mother consented to the corporal punishment & treated the child with “respect”. The principal berated her
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7 May
NEWS: In order to charge Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo with killing his pregnant girlfriend Keishla Rodriguez, a source tells me: prosecutors had a witness named Luis Antonio Cádiz-Martínez who alleged participated in the murder & told the FBI where to find Keishla’s body.
In the initial indictment against Felix Verdejo, prosecutors mentioned a “witness”. People speculated that the witness might be Verdejo’s wife. It wasn’t. The witness is Luis Antonio Cadiz Martínez.
I’m told by a source that Cadiz Martinez not only gave up the location of the body, he cooperated with the FBI which allowed them to solve the case and arrest Felix Verdejo.
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5 May
Here is the late Andrea Ruiz Costas, of Puerto Rico, in her own words. She requested a restraining order against her ex boyfriend & a judge denied it. She asked another judge to find probable cause to arrest him. She was denied. A month later he killed her, according to police.
These were voice messages that Andrea, 35, sent to one of her best friends. The voice messages were sent between March 27th - 29th.
In one of the messages, Andrea references a photo. Andrea‘s best friend tells me that her ex-boyfriend had in his possession a nude photo of her that he was threatening to release publicly.
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5 May
After the Puerto Rico justice system was exposed for failing Andrea Ruiz Costas, a judge has now ordered the probable cause hearing sealed so the public can’t see it. That’s the hearing where Andrea asked a judge to jail her ex boyfriend but the judge found no probable cause.
The head of the Supreme Court has acknowledged that enough was not done for Andrea. The attorney general on the island has acknowledged enough was not done for Andrea. The governor has acknowledged that the system failed Andrea. So why not release the hearing?
Puerro Rico’s attorney general supports the release of the 2 zoom hearings where Andrea requested a restraining order from a judge as well as the hearing where she asked a second judge to find probable cause to arrest her ex boyfriend.
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5 May
Her brutal murder has changed the way Justice is pursued in Puerto Rico. There was no prosecutor present when Andrea Ruiz Costa went before a judge for a probable cause hearing asking the judge to jail her ex-boyfriend because she feared for her safety amid alleged threats by him
The judge denied her justice and found no probable cause. Her ex-boyfriend murdered her a month later, according to police. He has allegedly confessed to the crime.
What Andrea was denied every alleged victim will be granted from this point forward: a prosecutor by their side at every domestic violence probable cause hearing. Because the people of Puerto Rico rose up and demanded change, Andrea has changed the world for the better.
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3 May
BREAKING: Prosecutors in Puerto Rico alleged that boxer Felix Verdejo called someone on April 27th to ask them to help him terminate the pregnancy of his girlfriend. On April 29th, Verdejo allegedly contacted the victim Keishla Rodriguez Ortiz asked asked to meet near her home.
Prosecutors allege that Verdejo and the witness drove to a meeting point in his with Dodge Durango. Prosecutors alleged victim arrived at the meeting place in her vehicle and she got into Verdejo’s car.
Prosecutors alleged at once in his car Verdejo punched the victim in the face injected with a syringe filled with substances from a drug. Verdejo’s & the witness than restrained the victims arms and feet with a wire.
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