Arrest and trial įollowing the death of Laude, Pemberton was detained by the U.S. Gelviro went also with her own companion, and the couples went to different rooms. While having a drink with her friend Barbie Gelviro at the Ambyanz Disco in Olongapo, on October 11, 2014, she met an American military foreigner and agreed to go with him to a "short time" hotel called the Celzone Lodge. At the time of her death at the age of 26, she was engaged to a German national. Jennifer Laude was born on November 4, 1987. His ship was docked at Subic Bay Freeport, former home of the Subic Bay Naval Base, once the largest US Navy base outside the United States. Pemberton was in the Philippines to take part in regular military exercises. Pemberton was reported to have later admitted that he murdered Laude after he found out she was transgender. The cause of death was reported as " asphyxiation by drowning". The DNA within the condoms also did not match Laude's DNA. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory determined that one of the three condoms and a condom wrapper recovered from the motel room had Pemberton's fingerprints. Condoms recovered from the bathroom were subjected to DNA testing to determine if the semen it contained matched that of Pemberton. Staff found Laude's naked body, partially covered from the waist down, with her neck blackened with strangulation marks and her head in a toilet bowl. Thirty minutes after checking in, Pemberton left the motel, leaving the door to the room ajar. According to police and witnesses, they subsequently went to Celzone Lodge, a nearby motel. Laude, a trans woman, met Pemberton, a United States Marine from New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the Ambyanz disco bar in Olongapo on the evening of October 11, 2014. The killing spawned protests in the Philippines by transgender rights groups and other activists. This was the second reported criminal case involving a United States Marine in the Philippines under the Philippines–United States Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the first since the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte granted an absolute pardon to Pemberton in September 2020. His charge was downgraded from murder to homicide by a judge in 2015, and he was convicted on December 1, 2015. Pemberton admitted assaulting Laude and deployed a trans panic defense in his 2015 trial. On October 11, 2014, Jennifer Laude ( Tagalog pronunciation: ), a Filipina trans woman, was drowned to death by Joseph Scott Pemberton, a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps in Olongapo, Philippines.
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