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   From: homos-in-jail@glaad.org   
      
   THREE Queensland men have spent their weekend behind bars for   
   raping an unconscious friend with a glass bottle at an Australia   
   Day party.   
      
   Family and friends cried inconsolably as Bailey Hayes-Gordon,   
   Nicholas Jackson and Jacob Watson were found guilty by a   
   Brisbane District Court jury of raping the 18-year-old man.   
      
   Their week-long trial had heard the victim was held down while   
   passed out drunk in a bedroom and repeatedly penetrated in the   
   anus by the bottle. The 2015 incident committed by the then-   
   teenagers was also filmed and distributed on Snapchat and in   
   Facebook chats.   
      
   Judge Anthony Rafter noted while Hayes-Gordon was the one who   
   penetrated the victim, Jackson’s action of holding down the man   
   while Watson filmed it had encouraged each other.   
      
   “None of you were appalled or disgusted by what had taken   
   place,” Judge Rafter said on Friday.   
      
   “This can’t be classified as harmless high jinks.”   
      
   All three were sentenced to two years’ jail, suspended after six   
   months spent in custody.   
      
   A fourth man, 21-year-old Frazer Eaton, was given a wholly   
   suspended 18-month jail sentence in February after he pleaded   
   guilty to holding the young man’s shoulders and spreading his   
   buttocks.   
      
   Eaton testified against the other men and denied he gave   
   evidence in exchange for a lighter penalty.   
      
   Nicholas Jackson, 19, held the victim down while Jacob Watson,   
   18, filmed the incident on his phone and shared parts of it on   
   Snapchat.   
      
   In a Facebook conversation the next day, Hayes-Gordon posted   
   screenshots of the video and wrote: “(He) passed out so we stuck   
   a bottle up his arse and he just took it”.   
      
   “Funniest thing I’ve ever seen, legit. The whole end of the   
   bottle disappeared”. Watson and Jackson also made crude Facebook   
   comments.   
      
   All three were sentenced to two years’ jail, suspended after six   
   months spent in custody.   
      
   The victim, who was not physically injured, had no memory of the   
   2015 incident and described it as “f***ed up”.   
      
   He complained to police several months later after the video was   
   shared in separate Facebook conversations that included his   
   younger brother and girlfriend.   
      
   Hayes-Gordon, who at trial denied actually penetrating the   
   victim, told the man’s sibling the video was “your brother   
   getting analled”.   
      
   Frazer Eaton, 21, was given a wholly suspended 18-month jail   
   sentence in February after he pleaded guilty to holding the   
   young man’s shoulders and spreading his buttocks during the   
   incident.   
      
   Eaton testified against the other men and denied he gave   
   evidence in exchange for a lighter penalty.   
      
   After hearing four days of evidence in the Brisbane District   
   Court it took the jury only a few hours on Friday to find Hayes-   
   Gordon, Jackson and Watson guilty of rape.   
      
   Family and friends howled inconsolably as each verdict was   
   handed down, with one woman crying: “I’m going to kill myself”.   
      
   Judge Anthony Rafter warned people in the public gallery to   
   contain their emotions and not to shout out after a person had   
   been heard calling witness Eaton a “liar”.   
      
   “The verdicts can’t come as any surprise to anyone who has seen   
   the evidence in this case,” Judge Rafter said.   
      
   Hayes-Gordon and Jackson wept openly in the dock as they were   
   sentenced while Watson pursed his lips together and looked back   
   at distraught supporters.   
      
   Judge Rafter said it was unusual for a rape to involve no sexual   
   gratification, but that was “cold comfort” to the victim whose   
   body had been violated.   
      
   Judge Rafter said he was not confident the men fully appreciated   
   the impact their actions had had on the victim, despite   
   apologising to him through their lawyer in November last year.   
      
   http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/funniest-   
   thing-ive-seen-bottle-rapists-spend-first-night-in-jail/news-   
   story/88b094124f5d4d228be3a11bf06bd4ec   
       
      
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