The man, Daniel Jenks, was part of a group that ed the app Grdr to lure gay men to an apartment plex Dallas to rob and asslt them, prosecutors said.
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- A MAN AND THREE IENDS LURED GAY MEN ON GRDR TO ROB AND ASSLT THEM, FERAL OFFICIALS SAY: ‘BIGOTS OFTEN LURK ONLE’
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
A MAN AND THREE IENDS LURED GAY MEN ON GRDR TO ROB AND ASSLT THEM, FERAL OFFICIALS SAY: ‘BIGOTS OFTEN LURK ONLE’
Daniel Jenks, 22, admted to kidnappg gay men, beatg them and holdg them at gunpot 2017. He was sentenced to 23 years and four months feral prison. * daniel jensen gay *
Daniel Jenks had been msagg wh a man on a datg app primarily ed by gay men for several days before suggtg the two when the man arrived at a Dallas apartment plex December 2017 to meet Jenks, he stantly knew somethg was off. He uld see Jenks’s ey, he told a judge on Wednday, acrdg to the Dallas Morng ’s when Jenks and three iends forced him to a vant apartment, beat him, robbed him and tnted him wh homophobic slurs.
“I don’t have any hate toward the gay muny, ” he said, acrdg to the Morng Hy, a lawyer for Jenks said that given his client’s ser crim, “he was lookg at a potential life sentence.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Over the next five days, the four perpetrators asslted at least ne men rangg age om 19 to 57, acrdg to urt method, prosecutors said the dictment, was to create fake profil on Grdr, posg as gay men terted meetg up wh other gay men.
”Jenks told prosecutors that members the group ed gay slurs and tnted the victims. "I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.
"I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?
TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said.