Sensational Murder Complicates US-Filipino Relations
On Oct. 11, a 19-year-old US Marine Private First Class named Joseph Scott Pemberton picked up what he apparently thought was a woman named Jennifer Laude at the Ambyanz disco bar in the infamous bar town of Olongapo, next to Subic Bay, north of Manila.
Jennifer turned out to be a 26-year-old male transgender born as Jefferey*. Pemberton, said Mark Clare…
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