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US lesbian says sheriff paid therapists to convert her

A lesbian in the US is taking a sheriff’s department to court after they allegedly paid two evangelicals to turn her straight.

Peter Lloyd

Fri, 27 May 2011 12:47:46 GMT | Updated 1 years today


Amanda Booker claims officers in Georgia took her to a pair of gay conversion therapists at a cost of $600. She's now suing them for violating her constitutional rights.

According to the Daily Mail, the incident happened in April 2010, after Booker's family asked police to commit her to a psychiatric hospital because of her drug addiction.

She claims officers ignored her father's request to take her to the local hospital and - instead - forced her to live with evangelical Christians Chris and Donna McDowell, who tried to turn her straight.

Sheriff Clark Milsap denies all allegations and actually laughed when confronted by local newspaper the GA Voice.

He told them: "I haven't been served (with papers). But, no ma'am, that is the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life."

Booker remains in custody on a separate incident of damaging a police car.

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