LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Prosecutors in the first federal hate crimes trial of its kind Wednesday called on jurors to convict two eastern Kentucky men of attacking a gay man because of his sexual orientation.

Anthony Ray Jenkins of Partridge and his cousin, David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, are charged with kidnapping and assaulting 29-year-old Kevin Pennington last year at a rural state park. They also are charged with violating a section of a federal hate crimes law that has not previously been prosecuted in the U.S.

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