Transgender Widow Gets Jail for Theft
News Thursday, January 26th, 2012HOUSTON (AP) _ A Houston judge has sentenced the transgender widow of a fallen firefighter to almost two months in jail after she pleaded guilty to theft involving a wristwatch.
Nikki Araguz was sentenced to 50 days in jail Wednesday after she confessed to stealing the Rolex off the wrist of a woman she met at a Houston bar Feb. 24. Her attorney says Araguz has already paid $2,800 in restitution for the watch.
She’s waging a court fight for the death benefits of firefighter Thomas Araguz III, who died in July 2010 while battling a fire near Wharton.
The 36-year-old widow, born Justin Graham Purdue, is appealing a Wharton County judge’s ruling that her marriage was invalid because she was born a man and Texas doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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[...] to WTAW, Nikki Araguz, the transgender widow fighting for the legitimacy of her marriage in court, was [...]
This is such a joke. The accuser made the story up about the watch being stolen, the accused paid for said watch and STILL has to do 2 months in jail? WTF? The only reason any of this has happened is because they accused was a transgender woman; the accuser and the court had it in for her from the start. And now this paper is a willing accomplice in this sham.
http://www.cristanwilliams.com/b/2012/01/27/nikki-araguz/