{"id":2206041,"date":"2024-03-25T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-male-pleads-guilty-to-killing-12-year-old-girl-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:13:07","slug":"trans-identifying-male-pleads-guilty-to-killing-12-year-old-girl-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-male-pleads-guilty-to-killing-12-year-old-girl-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"A person who identifies as transgender has admitted guilt in the tragic death of their 12-year-old &#8216;best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-identifying-male-pleads-guilty-to-killing-12-year-old-girl-best-friend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A trans-identifying individual from Pennsylvania, Joshua\u2062 Cooper, pleaded guilty to the 2022 killing of 12-year-old Morgan Connors. Cooper,\u200d now 18 and\u2062 identifying as female, admitted\u2064 to the \u2063crime while they were \u200cwatching Netflix \u2062together. Sentenced to 15 to 40 years in prison, Cooper also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-district-urged-to-fire-drag-queen-principal-with-history-of-child-pornography-charges\/\" title=\"Call to dismiss drag queen principal with child pornography charges history in school district.\">faced charges\u200c related<\/a> to the incident. Prior to the \u200cmurder, Cooper \u2063was\u2063 adjudicated delinquent in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-tweets-from-andrew-cuomo-that-aged-horribly\/\" title=\"#MeToo Tweets From Andrew Cuomo That Aged Horribly\">sexual assault case<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A trans-identifying man from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a 12-year-old girl in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Cooper, now 18 and who identifies as female and goes by Ash, admitted to killing the young girl, Morgan Connors, his \u201cbest friend,\u201d while they were watching Netflix together.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper pleaded guilty to several charges including third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-accused-texas-cop-killer-in-u-s-illegally-says-ice\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Accused Texas Cop-Killer in U.S. Illegally, Says ICE\">fabricating physical evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Bucks County judge on Thursday sentenced Cooper to 15 to 40 years in jail followed by seven years of state supervised probation.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, authorities revealed Cooper was adjudicated delinquent, the same as a guilty verdict in adult court, in a previous unrelated sexual assault case before the murder, the Bucks County Courier Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/03\/21\/bensalem-teen-ash-cooper-admits-killing-friend-morgan-connors-home-with-gun-from-safe-bucks-county\/72958323007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The victim in the sexual assault case was in the courtroom on Thursday and provided a victim impact statement to the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Few details around the murder have been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly incident occurred on November 25, 2022 while the pair were watching Netflix in a bedroom at Cooper\u2019s trailer park home in Bensalem Township just east of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show that Cooper, then 16, said he was cleaning and organizing his father\u2019s gun safe, and at one point Connors went to use the bathroom. Cooper somehow ended up shooting her, but Cooper\u2019s mother ended the police interview before he could tell the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p>After the murder, Cooper allegedly called another girl via Instagram video chat claiming to have just killed someone and asking for help cleaning up and disposing of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The girl told her mother that she saw blood and legs in the background of the video chat, and her mother called the police.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they saw Cooper running out of the back of the trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Inside, officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/03\/21\/bensalem-teen-ash-cooper-admits-killing-friend-morgan-connors-home-with-gun-from-safe-bucks-county\/72958323007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> the body of a girl with her pants around her ankles on the bathroom floor. She died as a result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-slain-maga-supporter-aaron-danielson-sues-city-of-portland-mayor-ted-wheeler\/\" title=\"Family of slain MAGA supporter Aaron Danielson sues city of Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler\">single gunshot wound<\/a> to her neck and thorax area, an autopsy found.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper initially claimed he had accidentally shot the girl with his father\u2019s hunting rifle.<\/p>\n<p>A note was found in Cooper\u2019s bedroom after the murder, but it has not been made public.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper was charged as an adult, but he has been held at the Bucks County Juvenile Detention Center since his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally charged as Joshua Cooper but now identifies as female, and his attorney requested that the court recognize him as Ash Cooper instead.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lang, Cooper\u2019s attorney, referenced Cooper\u2019s \u201cdifficult upbringing\u201d in court and said that \u201ctaking responsibility\u201d was a \u201cbig step in the healing process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Allen Gold, Connors\u2019 grandfather and legal guardian since she was a baby, also provided a victim impact statement to the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cParents should not have to bury a child. The human heart was not designed for such heartbreak,\u201d Gold wrote, adding that the young girl was \u201cmy whole world\u201d and had called him dad from the time she began talking.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pennsylvania, Joshua Cooper, an 18-year-old who identifies as female and goes by Ash, pleaded guilty to the 2022 killing of 12-year-old Morgan Connors, his &#8220;best friend.&#8221; This tragic incident occurred while they were watching Netflix together. Cooper confessed to several charges, including third-degree murder, during the Thursday court proceedings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2206042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1390656665.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1390656665.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}