Editor’s note: The Philadelphia Gay News originally published this story. BY TIM CWIEK | Prosecutors are pledging justice for Pauly Likens, a 14-year-old transgender girl from Sharon, Pa., who was brutally killed last month.
Her remains were scattered in and around a park lake in western Pennsylvania. “The bottom line is that we have a 14-year-old, brutally murdered and dismembered,” said Mercer County District Attorney Peter C.
Acker in an email. “Pauly Likens deserves justice, her family deserves justice, and we seek to deliver that justice.” On June 23, DaShawn Watkins allegedly met Likens in the vicinity of Budd Street Public Park and Canoe Launch in Sharon, Pa., and killed her.
Watkins subsequently dismembered Likens’s corpse with a saw and scattered her remains in and around Shenango River Lake in Clark Borough.