US Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton admitted yesterday that he choked Jennifer Laude after learning that she was a “man.”
Pemberton made the admission during the hearing on Laude’s murder at the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court Branch 74.
Pemberton strangled and dragged Laude after discovering that she was a transgender, Laude family lawyer Harry Roque told reporters.
In his testimony, Pemberton said that on Oct. 11, 2014, he went to the mall and several bars as part of his “liberty time.”
He said Laude and the other unidentified woman went with him to Cellzone Lodge where one of the women performed oral sex on him.
After the woman left, Laude also began performing oral sex on him. Pemberton said he reached down between Laude’s legs and discovered that his sex partner had a penis. He said he got angry–feeling that he was being raped by another man.