A transgender former teacher in Loudon County, Virginia, has been found guilty after threatening to commit a “murder spree” at a local school and cannibalize the corpses of his victims. Hadyn James Dollery, who also goes by the name “Sophie” and “Cotton Candy,” was found guilty of four of five criminal charges last Friday and faces up to 25 years in prison.

The court heard how Dollery, 19, sent disturbing messages through online messaging platform Discord in April of 2026 and prompted heightened security at two local schools before his arrest. Dollery was convicted of two counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds and one count of threatening to damage a building.

The four convictions carry a potential maximum prison sentence of 25 years, although no minimum sentence is required, and sentencing is expected to take place in the coming months. The case has renewed attention on school safety in Loudoun County, a Northern Virginia school district that has faced several high-profile controversies involving alleged threats, student misconduct and administrative accountability in recent years, specifically involving transgender perpetrators.

Dollery had worked as a non-licensed substitute teacher at Eagle Ridge Middle School, while John Champe High School, located in the Aldie area of Loudoun County, was identified as the target of his threats. Prior to becoming a substitute teacher, Dollery was a local student and amateur theater performer.

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According to Loudoun Now, the messages at the center of the case were sent on April 15, one day after Dollery experienced a break-up with his romantic partner.

Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dircia Schubert told jurors that Dollery contacted the former boyfriend at approximately 1:49 a.m via Discord and sent a slurry of messages, including threats to kill the former boyfriend and members of the former boyfriend’s family. Dollery also threatened members of his own family, and promised a “murder spree” at the former boyfriend’s school. Disturbingly, Dollery also described plans to cannibalize one of the victims after killing them.

Prosecutors said the threats were reported to law enforcement by the former boyfriend and another person through Safe2Talk, an application designed to allow students and community members to report potential safety concerns. The reports prompted an investigation into the communications and the possibility that the messages represented a danger to the people named and the school identified as a potential target. Schubert told the jury that Dollery later messaged the former boyfriend about returning a shirt, adding that he wanted it back “if I’m deemed fit to work after this shit I’m about to do.”

Prosecutors presented that statement as part of the wider context of the communications and Dollery’s awareness that his actions could have consequences for his employment.

School officials at Eagle Ridge Middle School, where Dollery had worked, and John Champe High School, the target of the alleged threats, reportedly considered the messages credible and assigned additional security to both schools while authorities investigated. Dollery was arrested in April, several days after the messages were sent. According to reporting on the case, he was taken into custody away from school grounds and subsequently removed from the list of available substitute teachers for Loudoun County Public Schools. The decision to increase security reflected officials’ assessment that the reported statements warranted precautionary measures while law enforcement worked to locate Dollery and evaluate the potential threat.

Evidence discussed during the trial included a box cutter found in Dollery’s backpack and information recovered from his phone. Schubert told jurors that the box cutter was in his backpack and that phone records showed the device had been used to search Google for information about blood.

During the trial, Dollery’s defense attempted to characterize the threats and weapon as “teenage drama” and Dollery being “desperate for attention,” arguing that the prosecution was blowing the threats out of proportion.

The trial therefore centered on the meaning and seriousness of the messages, the context in which they were sent and whether the evidence established the charged offenses beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors argued that the alleged threats against individuals and a school, together with the other evidence presented, demonstrated the seriousness of the conduct.

After beginning deliberations on October 8, the jury returned to court the next day and found Dollery guilty on four of five total counts. The jury acquitted Dollery on the third count of threatening to injure or kill a person.

Following the verdict, defense attorneys told Judge Matthew Snow that they planned to ask the court to grant Dollery bond the following week. A bond request is separate from sentencing and does not alter the convictions returned by the jury. The court will determine whether to grant the request under the applicable legal standards, while sentencing will establish the punishment imposed for the offenses.

The maximum potential prison term reported for the four convictions is 25 years, but that figure represents the upper limit rather than a prediction of the sentence Dollery will receive. A sentencing hearing is expected to be scheduled in the coming weeks.

Dollery’s case has unfolded against the backdrop of earlier school safety controversies in Loudoun County, including a pair of sexual assaults at two separate high schools in 2021 that prompted intense public scrutiny of the school district’s handling of student misconduct allegations.

Those incidents involved a 15-year-old “gender fluid” male student who was given access to the female restrooms on the basis of his self-declared “gender identity.”

The first incident occurred at Stone Bridge High School on May 28, 2021. According to court proceedings and later investigative reports, the student, who was able to be identified as Hunter Heckel after he turned 18, sexually assaulted a female classmate in a school bathroom. Some reports suggested he was wearing a skirt at the time of the attack.

A juvenile court judge subsequently found him responsible for the offense. After he was barred from returning to Stone Bridge, the student was transferred to Broad Run High School, where he sexually assaulted another female student in an empty classroom.

A Loudoun County school board member has called for an investigation into allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped in a school bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, who then went on to sexually assault another girl at a different school. https://t.co/yzQ7Iqf3gc

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) October 22, 2021

In November 2021, a juvenile court judge found him responsible for the second incident following a no-contest plea to charges involving abduction and sexual battery. The fact that the same student was involved in two incidents at separate schools became a central focus of national public concern, particularly as questions of what role the school board’s gender identity policies played in their inadequate measures to protect female students.

In December 2022, a special grand jury released a report sharply criticizing Loudoun County Public Schools’ handling of the incidents. The report identified serious communication failures among school administrators and other agencies, as well as missed opportunities to respond more effectively before the second assault. The grand jury also concluded that former Superintendent Scott Ziegler had made a false statement during a June 2021 school board meeting when he denied knowing about sexual assaults in school bathrooms.

Loudoun County Prosecutor Defends Sending Alleged Teen Rapist To Different School: ‘He Had No History’ https://t.co/RQrJTfyIOd https://t.co/FxJ1vxUkjj

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 19, 2021

A separate third-party review made public in September 2023 also criticized the district’s handling of its Title IX responsibilities, which concern sex-based discrimination and sexual harassment in educational settings. The review found that the school system should have acted more promptly in investigating the first incident.

Heckel was subsequently released from a juvenile treatment center in 2024 despite a judge noting that his psychosexual assessment report was highly concerning.

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A trans-identified male has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a 50-year-old man 13 times on Chicago’s South Side. Prosecutors say the horrific crime was committed in front of a 7-year-old child, and the brutal attack caused the tip of the knife to break off and embed in the victim’s skull.

Kelly Day, 32, of Chatham, was charged following the October 7 killing in the 1400 block of East 87th Street. The victim, Larry Young, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died.

At a detention hearing on October 10, prosecutors said Young pushed Day before walking away towards a gas station across the street. According to the prosecution’s account, Day followed him and the two fought. Surveillance footage allegedly shows Day standing over Young as he lay on the ground and repeatedly stabbing his head, neck and upper shoulders.

Authorities say a pathologist recovered a broken blade tip from Young’s skull. The medical examiner determined that he died from multiple sharp force injuries.

Assistant State Attorney Sara Grgurovic also described an earlier confrontation involving Day at a McDonald’s, where a group of people had mocked Day for using the women’s toilets. Day subsequently told his wife that he did not want “bullies” to get away with making fun of him for being trans.

However, Young is not believed to have beeb part of the group who ridiculed Day. Young approached Day later on that evening while he was with his wife and his stepson as they walked along 87th Street, making comments about Day being transgender that prosecutors say prompted an argument. Day became “extremely angry” and resisted his wife’s attempts to pull him away, according to prosecutors.

After the stabbing, which took place in full view of Day’s own 7-year-old stepson, prosecutors say Day gave two different accounts of his injury in calls to 911, initially claiming that he had been hurt while defending himself against a “pervert,” while in a later call, he said he had cut himself while cooking.

Day allegedly discarded the knife before seeking treatment for a cut finger at Jackson Park Hospital, where he was ultimately arrested. Investigators recovered a knife with part of its blade missing.

After his arrest, Day claimed self-defense, telling investigators that Young had used a bigoted slur, made a gun gesture and threatened to have someone beat up him and his wife. Judge John Hock ordered Day detained pending trial, citing the brutality of the attack among the reasons for his decision, with Day’s next court appearance scheduled for October 13.

Since news of the arrest, multiple news outlets have focused on the alleged “transphobia” Day claimed to have been the victim of in the lead up to Young’s murder.

The Chicago Tribune quoted Isa Noyola, a trans-identified male who directs the Border Butterfly Project, attributing the incident to “the political climate, the social climate that we’re living in.” Noyola blamed “hate groups” and political leaders for demonizing trans-identified people. The report also discussed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “Transfemicide Working Group,” an initiative concerned with the killing of trans-identified males, despite the person killed in this case being Young. 

Hoodline’s headline read “Judge Orders South Side Trans Woman Held in Fatal Stabbing of Bully”, labelling Young a bully without quotation marks. Prosecutors had attributed the remark about “bullies” to Day, referring to the separate group at McDonald’s before he encountered Young.

If convicted, Day may be placed in a women’s prison in accordance with precedents set by previous litigation backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the state.

In December 2025, Reduxx reported that Jordan Kuykendall, also known as “Sora”, had been moved to Logan Correctional Center, a women’s prison, while serving a 40-year sentence for the 2013 stabbing murder of his former girlfriend, 17-year-old Erin Schneider. She was found dead just hours before a court appearance concerning an emergency protection order sought by her mother.

In a separate investigation, Reduxx detailed the case of Andre Cashmere Patterson, also known as “Janiah Monroe”, who strangled his cellmate, Kimani Muhammad, in Cook County jail in 2006. He was similarly transferred to Logan in April 2019 following ACLU-backed “discrimination” lawsuit.

Two months after that transfer, a female inmate filed a report alleging that Patterson had raped her. In a subsequent lawsuit, she accused prison staff of trying to classify the assault as consensual and coercing her to retract her allegation. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice in September 2022.

Reduxx also reported on John Wesley Finnegan, who began calling himself “Hannah Dagny” years into a 22-year sentence for strangling his mother, Mary, in 2008. He later told police that he had sexually abused her corpse.

In December 2025, Reduxx documented Finnegan’s placement at Decatur Correctional Center, an Illinois women’s prison with a mother-baby unit. Chicago-based lawyers had also sought clemency for him, portraying him as a survivor of abuse.

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A father who murdered his two young children and was transferred to a women’s prison after beginning to identify as transgender has been accused of sexually harassing female inmates while authorities look the other way. Paulus Said Foukaih Abdelshahed, an Egyptian national, was transferred to a women’s prison after changing his name to “Lily,” where he is serving a life sentence for the killings.

On April 23, 2024, police and ambulances services were dispatched to Abdelshahed’s residence in response to a call that he had made. Abdelshahed told emergency services that his two children – a boy and a girl, both under the age of 10 – were not breathing, according to a criminal indictment lodged in November that year.

When officers arrived at the residence, they found both children dead. Court documents and subsequent reporting state that prosecutors determined Abdelshahed had placed bags over each child’s head and pumped helium into the bags through a hose, depriving them of oxygen. The prosecution described the killings as intentional, carefully planned, and particularly ruthless. Investigators recovered items from the home consistent with this method, including bags, tape, and gas-related equipment.

Before the murders, for example, Paul Abdelshahed had Googled “killed his own children,” “die together” and searched for “the most gentle way to kill someone.”

Abdelshahed admitted to killing the children during the investigation, and admission prosecutors cited alongside forensic findings and other physical evidence. A psychological examination ultimately concluded that Abdelshahed did not suffer from a serious mental disorder of the kind that would justify sentencing him to compulsory psychiatric care rather than prison.

In December 2024, the Södertälje District Court convicted him on both counts and sentenced him to life imprisonment and deportation in the event he was ever released. Abdelshahed quickly appealed the verdict, arguing that the court should have imposed psychiatric care rather than a life sentence. However, his appeal was quashed by the Svea Court of Appeal in February 2025.

Yet during this process, Abdelshahed had applied to change his sex marker on official identification documents, and legally changed his name to “Lily”. As a result, it was discovered he had been transferred from Tidaholm men’s prison into a women’s prison in Ystad (Ystadsanstalten) some time near the end of 2025.

Abdelshahed began crossdressing publicly in 2023, when he would go to his job at Scania in Södertälje dressed up as “Lily”. On some occasions, he would also wear a wig and women’s clothes when picking up his children from school.

During police questioning that followed his initial arrest, Abdelshahed appeared to blame his “gender dysphoria” for the murders of his two children. “I was born in the wrong body… If I were born Lily, I would be happy and still have my children… [and] live my life as it is,” he told authorities.

New reports tell of how Abdelshahed has been accused of continuous sexual harassment by multiple female inmates at the women’s prison where he is being held. Correctional officers employed at Ystad and six inmates came forward to tell Expressen of the ongoing “inappropriate behavior”, which includes Abdelshahed exposing himself to the women there.

According to the report, Abdelshahed walks around the facility while wearing a short night gown without underwear, with his penis exposed. “[He doesn’t] wear underwear, like the rest of us do. When I and others have told the staff, we are told that we are LGBTQI-hostile,” said a woman who was recently incarcerated at Ystad.

One woman who suffers from PTSD after surviving a sexual assault has had a panic attack after seeing Abdelshahed leave his room wearing nothing but a short night gown. Despite this, she was the one reprimanded by staff for inappropriate behavior, not Abdelshahed.

Another inmate explained that Abdelshahed repeatedly slaps her on the rear. “He has told me that he likes women, which makes me even more uncomfortable,” she said.

Still another inmate says that he has tried to enter the shower room — an area which can’t be locked — while other female inmates were showering on several occasions. She described the situation as a “horror scenario”, and said that he has walked in on her as she did her laundry there just to expose his penis to her: “The shower room also serves as a laundry room and Lily deliberately goes there when I’m washing, just to show [himself] naked,” the woman said.

Other inmates also describe how Abdelshahed invites younger women to his room on the premise of applying their makeup. Staff who came forward to Expressen reported feeling confused about how to handle the situation, and fear of retaliation from management for voicing concerns.

Additionally, reports of sexual harassment have been filed against Abdelshahed with both the police and the Ombudsman, but the cases have been dropped. According to Chief Safety Officer Jimmy Nyberg, female inmates “feel that their experiences of the challenges are not taken seriously by management.”

Abdelshahed is said to have initially lied to the female inmates about the reason for his incarceration. He reportedly told them he was only going to be held at the women’s prison for one year. Female inmates discovered the truth of his life sentence only after seeing a news segment about him on television.

“There was an entire correctional force for Lily’s department. They guarded him from other inmates until he was allowed to move out to a special ward in eight places and since then he has been there,” one woman said.

Inmates also described how Abdelshahed would wear makeup when he first arrived, but has now given up on applying cosmetics. “You can see without any problems that it is a man,” a correctional officer said.

The director of the women’s prison at Ystad, Anders Jansson said: ”There is nothing in our regulations that specifies how we should handle these cases. We have determined that this person is a woman. [Abdelshahed] is a woman, and if you have a female personal identity number, you’re going to be placed in a women’s prison.”

Sweden’s Legal Gender Recognition Act (Könstillhörighetslagen) officially came into force on July 1, 2025. The legislation streamlined the process for changing sex-identifiers on legal documents, without a requirement for surgical intervention. Previously, under a law passed in 1972, legal sex changes required approval from the Legal Advisory Council of the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), as well as a formal psychiatric diagnosis of transsexualism, or gender dysphoria. Under the new process, an applicant needs only a healthcare statement confirming an experience of “gender identity”, with no formal psychiatric diagnosis required.

Late last year, a trans-identified male and convicted pedophile was arrested as the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a young woman in the residential area of Rönninge, Sweden. Robin Andersson, who recently began calling himself “Vilma,” was arrested on December 30 and detained under suspicion of murder and the gross desecration of a corpse.

Andersson had previously attempted to kidnap a 10-year-old girl in 2019 and was found in possession of over 42,000 files depicting child sexual abuse and graphic images of female corpses. Andersson had targeted the girl while wearing a black mask, and equipped with zip ties and duct tape, attempted to force the girl into his car. The child managed to escape, and during court proceedings Andersson described his predatory behavior as a “cry for help.”

While under suspicion for the attempted abduction, a forensic investigation uncovered the significant quantity of graphic content in Andersson’s possession, which included both depictions of dead women and child sexual abuse.

The female corpses were also dismembered, as they were photographs from autopsy examinations. The convicted pedophile was also reportedly searching specifically for autopsy images of female genitalia.

Andersson’s internet search history showed that he was looking for information about drugging girls and disposing of their corpses. Investigators were able to track down certain internet searches he had made, such as: “Make someone unconscious,” “chloroform,” and searches for dead female bodies.

A forensic psychiatric examination conducted at the time determined that one of Andersson’s driving forces behind the attempted abduction was his “sexual interest in children and death,” adding that he “does not believe that the plaintiff has been harmed by the act and states that it is not clear that the children depicted in the abuse material feel bad about it.”

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A former police officer in Germany has been sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for the rape of a teen girl. Maja Schmid, who previously worked for the Federal Police Inspectorate in Rosenheim, was also found in possession of sexual abuse materials featuring children as young as 3 years old.

Schmid, 55, was sentenced on Tuesday at the Traunstein Regional Court after a trial that lasted a total of three days. While it was believed that Schmid would make a comprehensive confession that would spare the teenage victim from having to give a potentially traumatizing testimony in court, the victim was ultimately required to speak before the court, though did so over a video feed to maintain distance from the perpetrator.

🚨A transgender police officer in Germany is on trial for the rape of a 14-year-old girl and the possession of violent child sexual abuse material, some of which depicted toddlers. Some media outlets falsely referred to the man as a "female." https://t.co/5wwlFVkitL

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 15, 2026

While the details on the assault are limited due to the age of the victim, it is known that the girl is the daughter of one of Schmid’s friends, and that the assault occurred during a motorcycle roadtrip. It is unclear if the child’s parents were aware of this outing or gave permission for it to occur.

Schmid had previously targeted the girl for sexual abuse, sending her a pornographic WhatsApp message while on shift at the police station in 2024. The next year, he took the girl, then 15, on a motorcycle trip. After stopping at a restaurant on the A8 motorway near Irschenberg, Schmid approached the girl while she was in the female bathroom, pushed her against a wall, and raped her.

The indictment describes the teenager as being in shock immediately after the alleged assault. It says she was unable to respond in fear before Schmid left the cubicle. The girl then allegedly locked herself inside the bathroom and suffered what was described as a serious anxiety attack.

At the time of the attack, Schmid was already under investigation by cybercrime specialists at the Bamberg Public Prosecutor General’s Office, who had received a tip from a US-based organization indicating that Schmid may be in possession of child pornography. But Schmid’s fiancée was ultimately responsible for setting the assault investigation in motion after discovering predatory communications between him and the minor on his phone. The report resulted in Schmid’s devices being seized and analyzed.

Police found that Schmid had multiple devices containing thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos, some of them extremely graphic. The youngest children depicted were apparently only three or four years old. 

Police also uncovered videos Schmid had recorded of himself sexually abusing a dog. However, the bestiality media was not taken into consideration in the verdict. According to the presiding judge, bestiality pornography is punishable only if it is intended for distribution.

Schmid was ultimately sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison. In explaining the verdict, the presiding judge took into account a letter of apology Schmid had written and his commitment to pay the victim €11,000 in compensation. The judge also insisted that, despite his crimes, Schmid was “not a pedophile.”

Throughout the case, Schmid’s identity was censored by German media. But though most German outlets blurred his face and various tattoos in an attempt to keep him anonymous, a photo posted by OVB Online and Rosenheim24 of Schmid in court showed him with an uncovered arm tattoo, and Reduxx managed to confirm his identity by cross-referencing the tattoo against an uncensored photo posted to his Facebook. 

🚨UPDATE🚨 Reduxx can confirm that the name of the transgender police officer charged with raping a 14-year-old girl is Maja Schmid. Schmid’s identity was withheld by German media outlets, but has been confirmed via an anonymous tip and by cross-referencing his arm tattoo against a court photo. Schmid had previously been positively profiled by media as a "woman" with a "delicate soul."

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 15, 2026

Schmid was previously profiled by Himmeblau on his classic Cadillac Coupé DeVille, which he often brought to various car shows in his region. In the article, Schmid is described as a “woman” with a “delicate soul.” The article also notes that Schmid is 6′ tall “without heels,” and had been a federal police officer for 35 years at the time of its publication.

Disturbingly, some German media outlets failed to note Schmid was a biological male, and instead referred to him simply as a “police woman” or “female police officer.” In one article, published on October 6 by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the case is included as an example of female sexual crimes.

“Statistically speaking, women are significantly in the minority as perpetrators in cases of this kind,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung article begins, “But women, too, can be violent, can inflict sexual violence on others, and can commit rape. Even as police officers.”

Schmid was reportedly held in a women’s jail for the first half of his pretrial detention, but was transferred to the men’s unit at Munich-Stadelheim prison earlier this year. His defense attorney has suggested that he is attempting to be moved back to a women’s facility.

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An Arizona man who fatally stabbed a woman 15 times and blamed his “gender identity and sexuality” for the brutal slaying has now avoided the death penalty. Zion Teasley, who wrote about his belief he was transgender in his diary in the days leading up to the slaying, told police he had viciously murdered 29-year-old Lauren Heike in April 2023 after flying into a jealous rage over her beauty.

The court heard that Teasley ambushed Heike and chased her along a hiking trail located near her home in Arizona before repeatedly stabbing her to death. Teasley and the victim had never interacted before the killing. He then abandoned her body, which a neighbor discovered while walking their dog a few days later. Police arrested Teasley after connecting him to DNA evidence found on Heike’s shoe.

Days after killing her, Teasley accessed photos of Heike from her social media accounts. Investigators also reportedly found photos of him wearing an outfit they say was similar to what Heike was wearing when he stabbed her to death.

During interrogation, Teasley told investigators he had been struggling with issues of sexuality and “gender identity,” and at one point, when shown a photo of Heike, stated, “That’s what I would want to look like.”

A nearly 400-page police report obtained by ABC15 revealed messages, internet searches, and journal entries in which Teasley discussed his gender identity.

“I have been battling with my gender identity and sexuality. I am Christian, so this isn’t allowed. I want to live a life of serving God, but how can I with these and other sins in the way. [I know] I am forgiven for my sins. But it’s still a lot of pressure and it’s hard to maintain a good Christian mindset 24/7,” the killer wrote.

Police note another screenshot which implies that Teasley may have been depressed, reading, “when I see a beautiful woman and I’m a man.” When Teasley was asked by investigators if he had planned Heike’s murder, they responded, “I’m telling you, if I was gonna do something like that, it definitely wouldn’t be premeditated.”

Detectives discovered that Teasley had been fired from his job for being “aggressive toward female employees” and for being suspected of stealing products.

During the course of the investigation into Heike’s murder, law enforcement also found that Teasley had knowingly received child pornography in 2019 or 2020. He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor for possessing child pornography.

Teasley’s attorneys referred to their client with feminine pronouns in the courtroom. The convicted killer has criminal charges dating back to 2020, and just five months before the slaying, he had been released after serving a three-year jail sentence for armed robbery.

According to a plea deal reached in court last Friday, Teasley will be sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder. By pleading guilty, prosecutors agreed to dismiss their notice to seek the death penalty. The judge also said that the charges in an assault and burglary case, filed after Teasley’s arrest for Heike’s murder, would also be dismissed under the terms of the agreement.

In August 2024, aggravated assault and burglary charges were filed against Teasley for a January 2020 attack against another woman. The case also involved a knife, but the victim survived.

The Heike family issued an emotional statement supporting the court’s decision.

“After 3½ incredibly long and painful years, our family supports the State’s decision to enter into a plea agreement in Lauren’s case,” the statement read. “This means we will not have to endure a trial or sit in a courtroom and hear every painful detail of the crime that took Lauren from us. There is a tremendous sense of relief in knowing that we will be spared that additional trauma.”

The family continued: “We fully supported the State’s efforts to seek the death penalty, but we are in agreement with the plea offer made by the defendant. He offered to plead guilty to first degree murder and accept a natural life sentence,” the statement continued. “While no sentence will ever bring Lauren back, we are relieved knowing that he will never be released. He will never again have the opportunity to harm another person or cause another family to experience the unimaginable grief and trauma that ours has endured.”

According to the LGBTQ+ Bar Association, the state of Arizona allows trans-identified male convicts to be transferred into a women’s correctional facility. Inmates are initially processed on the basis of sex, but accommodation requests may be granted after undergoing a review conducted by a Transgender/Intersex Committee appointed by the state’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR).

The ADCRR’s Order 810, “Management of LGBTI Inmates,” implemented on April 1, 2022, states: “Inmates identified as transgender or intersex shall be asked and afforded the opportunity to voluntarily provide the following information: The appropriate personal pronouns for their gender identity; their own view of how they would be most safely housed, including female versus male housing.”

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A 40-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a Planet Fitness women’s locker room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Laquan Holland was arrested on Thursday morning after police responded to a report of an assault in progress at the gym in Porter Square.

According to reports, Holland, who was a member at the gym, entered the women’s locker room where he sexually assaulted a woman and prevented her from leaving the area. Holland then attacked a second woman after she attempted to intervene to save the first victim.

Holland faces two counts of assault to rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, and one count each of kidnapping and witness intimidation. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday and was ordered held pending a hearing scheduled for later this month.

Holland was known to police, with court records showing that he had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 in 2006.

Planet Fitness has said that Holland’s membership has since been cancelled. The franchise group said it was working with police on the investigation. The club is located in a building owned by Lesley University, which clarified that no students or staff were involved.

The incident has brought renewed attention to the fitness franchise’s notably lenient policies with respect to locker room access.

According to its website, all members may use the locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, and any other facilities/programs “based on their self-reported gender identity,” a guideline that many have argued has contributed to other disturbing incidents in the women’s areas at multiple Planet Fitness locations across the United States.

Reminder that @PlanetFitness is not safe for women. Here is their full “gender identity non-discrimination policy” that completely discriminates against women. https://t.co/dXk3lUPg12 https://t.co/juK7VaiemE

— Taylor Silverman (@tmsilverman) January 15, 2023

In September of 2023, a strikingly similar incident occurred at a Planet Fitness in Monroe, Georgia.

As Reduxx reported, JaKorbie Dixon, 25, was arrested after allegedly exposing himself to a 15-year-old girl and a 19-year-old female employee in the women’s locker room of a Planet Fitness. The girl’s aunt said Dixon pulled back the shower curtain, stood naked in front of her young niece, and called after her to stay as she tried to leave.

When the family complained, staff allegedly acknowledged previous reports about Dixon, but said he had a right to use the women’s locker room under the gym’s gender self-identification policy. The family’s attorney said Dixon was allowed to continue using the women’s facilities because he “identified” as female. The same report described two separate incidents involving the employee: Dixon allegedly summoned her to the women’s locker room while naked, then exposed himself to her again weeks before the girl’s encounter.

A man has been arrested in connection to multiple indecent exposure incidents in a women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness in Georgia. Staff said that JaKorbie Dixon had a "right" to use the women’s facilities even after exposing himself to a teen girl. https://t.co/tHKQr0nkiz

— REDUXX (@reduxx) September 21, 2023

In May of 2026, a New Hampshire woman lost her Planet Fitness membership after she complained about a male in the women’s locker room.

Judy Walcott said she spotted the man hanging his belongings outside a shower and told the front desk the encounter made her uncomfortable, but a staff member said there was nothing he could do due to Planet Fitness inclusivity policies.

When she raised it again, a second employee called her transphobic and told her to leave. The club later cancelled her membership of more than a decade. Walcott said an employee submitted the cancellation request in her name, marked “Nondiscrimination Trans,” and forged her signature. She later returned to use her paid membership, and staff called police; she received a no-trespass order.

A woman in New Hampshire had her @PlanetFitness membership revoked for "transphobia" after complaining to staff about a male using the women’s locker room. The man was later identified online as a transgender registered sex offender. https://t.co/aF0wcaS9gQ

— REDUXX (@reduxx) May 22, 2026

The man was later identified as Christopher Beaulieu, a registered sex offender. Court records reviewed by Reduxx showed Beaulieu began transitioning while serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a child aged 13 to 16.

He later received feminizing hormones and changed his legal name to “Crystal.” He was later convicted of failing to keep authorities informed of identity changes required by his sex-offender registration.

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A Canadian trans-identified male sex offender who was twice convicted on charges related to child sex abuse material, one of which involved accessing pornography of infants in diapers, is once again in custody after violating conditions of his parole. Laverne Travis Waskahat has repeatedly been released by the Parole Board of Canada, which has considered his “Indigenous status” as a mitigating factor in his repeat offending.

Waskahat, who claims to be transgender and also uses the name ‘Lauren,’ has an extensive history of possessing, making and publishing child pornography involving male and female infants under three years old. Waskahat had also previously committed sexual offenses against children in his care and was known to take voyeuristic photos of infants in public, primarily in bathrooms at malls and grocery stores around Edmonton, Alberta.

Waskahat has been ordered by the court to register as a sex offender for life. But since 2013, he has been released and re-arrested a staggering seven times after being found in violation of the terms of his Long Term Supervision Order (LTSO), according to new information from a recent Parole Board decision.

Waskahat was first convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography in 2011, for which he received a five-year prison sentence. Authorities discovered images of Waskahat performing sexual acts on an infant. Over the next fifteen years, he would become known to Edmonton Police for sexually abusing children while in a position of care, including babysitting, and taking voyeuristic photographs of infants in public.

Canada’s federal correctional system permits statutory release after an offender has served the legislated portion of a federal sentence, subject to supervision and conditions. In December 2013, Corrections Services Canada (CSC) released him into the community under supervision. Within less than a week, he was arrested again after he was found to have been stockpiling baby diapers.

While it is unclear when the Parole Board approved his release, his parole was suspended the following year, in August 2014, after he incurred new criminal charges relating to the production and possession of child pornography.

Waskahat was set free again in August 2019. At the time Edmonton police warned the public about Waskahat. They said he was a threat to commit “significant harm to the community and will commit another sexual offence against a child under the age of 16.” On October 17 of that year, he was spotted by Edmonton police officers using a cellphone in violation of his release conditions. He was arrested, and his devices were seized. Forensic investigations uncovered child pornography images, and Canadian media reported that an “Alberta woman” had plead guilty to three charges related to child pornography, just weeks after Edmonton police warned he would likely re-offend.

In addition to child pornography, investigators noted that there were also a number of photos of diapers and diaper fetish search terms in the laptop’s search history. Other search terms included things like “abuse baby,” “abuse newborn” and “newborn hit.”

In April 2021, Waskahat was arrested after he was discovered to be accessing child pornography online. An investigation revealed 631 images of a variety of sexual assaults on young children, and “written narratives depicting child sexual abuse were also found,” according to court records. Waskahat was additionally accessing messaging apps targeted at children.

On December 11, 2023, Waskahat was released to the community despite Edmonton Police Service being aware of his risk to the public. Just prior to freeing the sexual predator, they issued public statements advising the community to beware of Waskahat. They stated that there were “reasonable grounds to believe [he] is of significant harm to the community” and is at risk of committing a sexual offense against a child under the age of 16.

Just two days later, on December 13, Waskahat was found in possession of child pornography. In a media statement, Edmonton Police revealed they had received a tip that traced Waskahat to a hotel room in the city’s West Side. At the time of his arrest, police found a baby crib, diapers, dozens of alleged pornographic drawings and a laptop in Waskahat’s room.

The following year, in January 2024, CSC released Waskahat into the community while placed on electronic monitoring. By the following week, Waskahat’s parole supervisor was informed that he had been gathering “baby items” at the community-based residential facility where he was placed. A search of his room uncovered “explicit written material depicting child sexual abuse”, and he was again arrested, returned to custody, and charged with breach of LTSO on February 24.

While remanded and awaiting charges, Waskahat’s parole officer was informed by the remand center that the pedophile had been hoarding sexually explicit material in his cell. On May 29, Waskahat was sentenced to an additional year, which amounted to 252 days after credit for time served.

In the Parole Board’s decision, it was noted that “there was a publication ban imposed by the court in relation to one of the current convictions,” indicating that the full extent of Waskahat’s crimes has been hidden from the public.

According to the most recent Psychological Report on file, dated September 27, 2023, Waskahat has demonstrated “deviant sexual interests including diaperism, infantilism, sexual sadism, and pedophilia,” and his likelihood of re-offending was placed in the “well-above” risk category. The assessment concluded that the risk Waskahat poses to the community “would not be manageable in the foreseeable future.”

The psychological assessment noted that Waskahat had consistently produced “creative writing depicting violent, sexual acts towards children,” and that he had “demonstrated predatory intent and a lack of self-control,” which raised “significant concerns regarding the potential for serious harm against a child.”

In November 2024, Waskahat was again released to a community-based residential facility. Within days, he was “quickly found” with photos of babies, cribs, and pregnant women, and was arrested. He was placed in custody after the Parole Board subsequently revoked his release.

Then, after being released at his warrant expiry date on February 5, 2025, he was arrested again on February 19, 2025, just fourteen days later for breaching his long-term supervision order. In a decision made during a September 3, 2026 hearing, the Parole Board says Waskahat was found with a smartphone which “contained a search history relating to infant related sexual assault”.

The Parole Board has again ordered Waskahat to detention for the next two years. According to the decision, Waskahat “admitted to watching and manufacturing child pornography continuously” and that his sexual preference involves “the sexualization of infants and diapers”.

The document reveals that at the time of Waskahat’s 2021 conviction, the Judge considered as a mitigating factor his “Indigenous status” and the impact serving a prison sentence would have on him.

“You are Indigenous and identify as female,” reads the September 3 Parole Board decision. “You are a treaty member of your First Nation community where you were raised by foster parents after spending your first four months in hospital due to being underdeveloped at birth and abuse. Your biological parents were involved in substance abuse, and you have been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) due to same which has impacted your cognitive functioning and general functioning in the community.”

The Parole Board went on to detail his prolonged use of alcohol and marijuana, which led to a psychotic episode requiring hospitalization at around the age of 30. It further reveals that Waskahat has “had relationships with both men and women” and reports having five children with whom he no longer has contact.

“The Board has considered the file information, your submissions at the hearing as well as your social history as an offender of Indigenous heritage. The Board acknowledges the overrepresentation of Indigenous people within the criminal justice system and that this disproportionate representation is connected to marginalization and systemic racism,” reads the decision.

According to the decision summary, Waskahat claimed to have sexually abused children due to feeling oppressed about his “gender identity”, and that having access to child pornography prevents him from committing homicide.

“At your hearing, you spoke to your upbringing and how you did not feel loved which you connect to writing your written child sexual abuse stories where you are both the child and the adult abusing the child. You connect this to your upbringing but were not clear as to this connection. You also spoke to it being difficult to be transgender in the world and how people laugh at you. You report that this leads to feelings of violence on your part which you grapple with and use child sexual abuse related materials to make you feel better so that you don’t have to kill anyone.”

The Parole Board decision describes how Waskahat has, again, been repeatedly found with written child sexual abuse materials, assaulted a CSC officer, and been found in possession of magazine cut outs of infants and child-related items.

In May 2026, Waskahat completed the Indigenous Sex Offender High Intensity Program, but correctional officials characterized his participation as “largely superficial”. Program facilitators said his “responsivity needs” may have limited his ability to benefit from the treatment. Throughout the program, officials said Waskahat expressed views that justified his offending, denied that his actions caused harm, and placed responsibility on others. Facilitators concluded that he continued to hold beliefs that supported and normalized his offending, demonstrated limited empathy for victims, and externalized blame. The Parole Board said the programming appeared to have had limited impact on his risk.

The Parole Board said Waskahat had repeatedly characterized the material he produced as “victimless” and harmless, despite participating in correctional programming and other interventions. According to the Board, he continued to externalize blame and demonstrated little empathy for victims. The Board said his repeated return to offenses involving child sexual abuse indicated that he had made little progress in understanding the harm caused by his actions. It also noted that Waskahat appeared to believe his written depictions of child sexual abuse did not harm others. During his hearing, he said he intended to continue writing such material daily, despite knowing it was illegal.

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A transgender pedophile serving a 40-year sentence for sexually abusing multiple children for over a decade is demanding the state of Alaska pay for genital surgery and allow him to transfer to a women’s prison. While incarcerated, Emmanuel Cancel legally changed his name to Emalee Rain Wagoner, and in 2016, he began claiming to identify as a woman.

Cancel was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse in June 2011 after one victim came forward. Shortly after, two others told investigators they had also been raped and abused. In January 2015, Cancel pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual abuse of a minor. Authorities had initially charged him with 50 counts of child sexual abuse, though after Cancel agreed to plead guilty, prosecutors consolidated them. Cancel was convicted for raping and sexually abusing two of his stepchildren and the daughter of a family friend over a period of approximately ten years, and sentenced to 60 years, with 20 years suspended and 40 years in prison.

Cancel changed his name to Emalee Wagoner in 2016, and, according to court documents which refer to him using feminine pronouns, “changed her external presentation by growing out her hair, changing her name, wearing improvised makeup, and otherwise presenting as female to the extent possible in prison.”

The Alaska Department of Corrections (AKDOC) has denied a formal request filed by Reduxx for access to a recent booking photo.

Cancel was a father to four biological children and two stepchildren. According to court documents, from 1998 until 2007 he sexually abused at least three of the children by “walking around the house naked; fondling the children; requiring that they perform oral sex on [him]; and digital and penile penetration… The abuse was pervasive and devastating to the children.”

Superior Court Judge Eric Smith said the case was among the worst he had ever seen in his career.

“I keep a log of all the cases I have and all the sentences I do,” he said. “It helps me remember cases. I would put Mr. Cancel’s case in terms of the sheer horror of what he did (to the victims) with only two or three other cases that I have seen.”

A reply filed by attorneys representing the AKDOC and prison officials refers to Cancel using his new legal name of Wagoner. The response states that he threatened the children into silence and forced them into serious drug use.

Disturbingly. the sex offender “attempted to keep the children quiet by threatening to kill them if they told anyone about the abuse.” Cancel would tell the children stories of alleged murders he had committed, and detailed how he would dispose of their bodies. The children were further terrified into silence as Cancel frequently physically abused them as well.

According to court records: “… The children thought this threat was legitimate due to the level of violence Wagoner displayed in the household, including slamming the children’s heads against the wall, whipping them with a belt, and beating their mother. She also provided them with marijuana, cocaine, crack, and meth as a bribe to keep them quiet,” states the defense’s reply, again using feminine pronouns to refer to the sadistic offender.

Cancel, who had been detained for the sexual offenses in 2011, was ultimately sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment with 20 years suspended, on charges relating to the sexual abuse of minors. The earliest projected parole date was set for 2038.

After legally changing his name to Emalee Wagoner in 2016, Emmanuel Cancel attempted to cut his genitals in an act of self-harm. The defense argues that the incident occurred after Cancel had communicated his intention to self-mutilate to his fiancé.

“In August 2016, she attempted self-surgery. Initially, she claimed that it was an accident. Later, she changed her story and claimed that she was attempting a gender-affirming surgery. On one other occasion, Wagoner re-injured her penis which required elevated medical attention at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center,” the defense attorneys remarked.

“Starting in August 2016, she started to communicate with her then-alleged fiancé that she was contemplating attempting to perform a self-surgery by cutting off her penis and genitals. It appears that the motivation for this was either to be released from prison or to be transferred to a women’s prison.”

Counsel for prison officials noted that leading up to his self-harm, Cancel could be heard in a recording with his then-alleged fiancé explicitly stating that his motivation for claiming to identify as a woman was to secure a transfer to a female prison, where he believed he could be together with the unnamed woman.

“If things change – and I do [the self-surgery] and get moved over, will you come see me?,” Cancel said. In another recording, Wagoner stated as follows: “[The self-surgery is] the only way I can see us being together otherwise its 22 more years will tear us apart. Six years have already destroyed us. It’s the only way I see it happening… So, if I get [the self-surgery] done, you will come live with me?”

Cancel’s now ex-fiancé, who was not an inmate, ended the relationship shortly after he performed a self-inflicted injury to his penis, which is consistently referred to by the court in ongoing proceedings as “her penis.”

In 2017, the AKDOC recognized a diagnosis of gender dysphoria for Cancel, which was described as co-occurring with diagnoses of borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. At the beginning of 2018, Cancel submitted a request form for prosthetic breasts, an item which is typically considered a fetish object. As such, AKDOC denied his request on the grounds that it did not serve a medical purpose.

In September 2018, Cancel lodged a civil rights complaint alleging Eighth Amendment violations of “cruel and unusual punishment” over having not been provided with genital surgery on the taxpayer dime. Wagoner’s claim sought damages of $5 million, declaratory relief, and injunctive relief, citing repeated denials of feminizing hormones and surgery. The convicted pedophile requested a trial by jury and has continuously demanded the Alaska Department of Corrections (AKDOC) adhere to guidelines published by the controversial lobby group the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

Curiously, evidence provided to the court by AKDOC reveals that almost immediately after his arrest on dozens of charges related to raping children, Cancel filed a formal complaint alleging that his life was in danger at Palmer Correctional Center. “Due to publicity of charges against me, I’m requesting protective custody. Due to life threats [sic] from a list of people… You can call my fiancé, she has the list.”

In August 2022, the sex offender was prescribed feminizing hormones by Dr. Rachel Samuelson, while the state provided him with cosmetics and “female undergarments” at taxpayers’ expense.

Cancel’s multiple requests for genital surgery were formally denied in October 2023 by the AKDOC’s Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC), which found that he did not meet the diagnostic criteria required to deem genital surgery as a medical intervention.

In September 2023, Cancel filed a request for Voice Feminization Therapy, and the following year, July 2024, his request was denied by Jill Cronin, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) on the basis that Voice Feminization Therapy is not considered essential healthcare.

In 2024 to 2025, the ACLU of Alaska and Lambda Legal began to represent Cancel in court proceedings. The legal team argues that the AKDOC acted with deliberate indifference to Cancel’s “gender dysphoria” by withholding “medically necessary care”, which they claim violates his Eighth Amendment rights. The foundation for their argument rests on Standards of Care published by trans activist lobby group, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) — an organization steeped in controversy which is currently being sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for fraud and deceptive practices.

Counsel for the convicted pedophile is seeking an injunction against AKDOC’s de facto policy against approving genital surgeries for inmates, and asserts that AKDOC maintains an implicit, unconstitutional blanket ban on “gender-affirming surgeries”.

AKDOC’s attorneys argue that Cancel is already being adequately managed through hormones and counseling, and is enjoying the use of “female undergarments” and cosmetics. They maintain that since starting on hormones in 2022, he has been objectively stable, showing no self-harm or suicidal ideation. The defense asserts that providing hormones, such as estradiol and anti-androgen spironolactone, alongside mental health support and ongoing monitoring, demonstrates active care, defeating any claim of intentional neglect or deliberate indifference.

Despite this, following a trial in May 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska ruled in favor of Cancel and entered a permanent injunction that ordered the Alaska Department of Corrections (AKDOC) to provide him with a “vaginoplasty,” or the construction of a wound intended to resemble and function as a labia and vagina. According to a 2025 Must Read Alaska report, while some legal precedents exist for giving trans-identified inmates “gender affirming” surgery, Cancel’s case will test those boundaries further.

One such precedent involves another convicted child rapist, Adree Edmo, formerly known as Mason Edmo. Edmo first launched a lawsuit against the state of Idaho and the state department of correction’s medical provider, Corizon Correctional Healthcare, in 2017 after being denied “gender” surgeries. In 2018, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled that Edmo was at risk of “irreparable harm” without the surgery, and ordered the state to pay for it.

The state of Alaska has appealed the district court’s decision on Cancel’s “gender affirming” surgeries, and the case is currently pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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