Hate crime trial: Victim tells of beating, anti-gay slurs

LONDON — In the first trial of its kind in the nation, a gay man testified Wednesday that two men yelled slurs about his sexual orientation as they punched and kicked him during an vicious attack in Harlan County.

Kevin Pennington, 29, said Jason and Anthony Jenkins took him to a dark, isolated road in mountainous Kingdom Come State Park and assaulted him one night in April 2011.

"You're gonna die, you ... faggot! You deserve this!" Pennington said the two yelled as they hit him.

Defense attorneys did not cross-examine Pennington Wednesday, but described Pennington as a drug dealer and said he lied early in the case by not disclosing that a planned drug deal preceded the attack.

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