A trans-identified male on trial for murder has admitted to cannibalizing his victim’s corpse after killing him. Gabriella Sears, born Dereck Donald Sears, has been in prison since 2021 for the brutal murder, which took place at his residence in Kelowna, British Columbia.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Sears was first arrested in 2021 and charged with second-degree murder and interference with human remains in the death of 49-year-old Darren Middleton, a friend and occasional employer of Sears.
Middleton’s body was discovered on June 16, 2021, by his partner, Brenda Adams, who went looking for him at Sears’ home after he failed to return from work that evening. Adams found Middleton in Sears’ bathroom, partially undressed and wearing some clothing that did not belong to him. The body was lying next to the bathtub, which had been left running.
Although Middleton reportedly died after receiving a blow to the head, Crown prosecutors revealed that he sustained several additional injuries post-mortem, including the partial removal of his penis and testicles, a deep gash to his throat “so deep Adams could see right inside” and multiple stab wounds. After seeing the dismembered body of her common-law partner, Adams fled the scene screaming.
As she ran from the house, Adams told police that she saw Sears dancing in the middle of the road, “with his eyes closed and his arms in the air,” to no music.
Sears had reportedly begun identifying as a woman just two days before the murder.
Dereck “Gabriella” Sears
The trial began in 2023 but has faced numerous setbacks due to Sears’ lack of cooperation with his counsel. Sears terminated his first attorneys, Jordan Watt and Tom Forss, just 18 days in to the hearings despite their success in having his direct confessions excluded as evidence during the trial. Several months later, Sears parted ways with another lawyer, Mark Swartz, who announced he was no longer representing Sears due to a “fundamental breakdown in the solicitor-client relationship.”
Sears has undergone two lengthy competency evaluations, both of which determined he was fit to stand trial. But the persistent delays resulted in the original judge assigned to preside over the case aging out of her role due to mandatory retirement.
The trial was set to resume in July of 2024, but Sears filed an application to have his legal name changed on the indictment from “Dereck” to “Gabrielle,” citing his “equality rights” outlined in Section 16 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A new trial officially began on November 4, with Sears once again pleading not guilty.
According to Kelowna’s Castanet, the first court date was spent debating whether a psychiatric assessment Sears was planning to use in his defense could be admitted. The report was prepared last month by Dr. Robert Lacriox, a psychiatrist who concluded that Sears was experiencing psychosis at the time of the murder and may not have understood the gravity of his actions.
Despite previous psychiatric assessments finding that Sears was competent, Lacroix believes that Sears has bipolar disorder and was experiencing a manic episode with psychotic features when Middleton was killed. He said Sears’ symptoms had been escalating in the months prior and were likely intensified by his crystal methamphetamine use.
According to the report, Lacroix’s conclusions were based on interviews with Sears and a review of statements he gave to police after his arrest. In those statements, Sears admitted to striking Middleton in the head repeatedly with a baseball bat, stabbing him in the eye, and removing his testicles.
Sears later told Lacroix that he believed he was following “telepathic instructions from a child ghost” directing him to remove and consume Middleton’s testicles – which had never been recovered by police.
“It would be reasonable to infer that Ms. Sears was incapable of rationally appraising the actual threat that Mr. Middleton posed and incapable of rationally responding to such a threat,” Lacroix wrote, referring to Sears with feminine pronouns. “This incapacity was the direct result of her psychotic symptoms.
“Ms. Sears was similarly incapable of making a rational choice when she removed the testicles. Several of her post-offense statements indicate she lacked an understanding of the moral gravity of her actions.”
Lacroix’s report disagrees with the previous assessments which found Sears had the capacity to understand his actions, and asserts that he should not be held criminally responsible for the murder.
Crown prosecutor David Grabavac is challenging the admissibility of the Lacroix report on the basis that the doctor relied on confessions and statements Sears made to police after his arrest – statements that have already been deemed inadmissible.
Argument over the hotly-contested report is expected to continue through this week, and the trial is scheduled to formally proceed in early December.
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The Bureau of Prisons has been ordered to provide laser hair removal and other cosmetic services to a transgender pedophile currently incarcerated for sexually abusing his own 10-year-old son. Brian Buckingham, 47, changed his name to “Nani Love” and declared that he identified as “female” just before he was sentenced for the horrific crime.
Reduxx can exclusively report details from the disturbing case, the investigation into which began in February of 2020 after popular chat service Discord became aware of child sexual abuse material being uploaded to its platform.
Discord had received a report from a concerned user about abuse images that had been made public, and a human moderator verified the contents of the report and immediately notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Based on the IP address of the account associated with the image, the NCMEC went on to involve the Washington State Patrol. A detective was assigned to the case to review the evidence from Discord, which included an image file depicting an adult man preparing to penetrate the anus of a young child.
In April of 2020, a court issued a search warrant to Discord for all of the information associated with the account the image had originated from. Reviewing selfies the account had uploaded to various group chats, the Washington State Patrol was then able to confirm the owner of the account was Brian Buckingham of Neah Bay. An additional package of media provided to police by Discord revealed two videos featuring Buckingham and a child victim that was later determined to be Buckingham’s own 10-year-old son.
The videos, which were taken on what police described as a covert security camera that had been positioned somewhere in the room, were shared with another Discord user who actively encouraged Buckingham to sexually abuse his child.
Conversations between Buckingham and the other Discord user reveal that Buckingham frequently exposed his young son to homosexual and bisexual pornography.
An exchange between Buckingham, using the alias “The_Awkward _Package” and a Discord pedophile.
Continuing the investigation, the Washington State Patrol found that Buckingham had exchanged Discord messages expressing an interest in rape and sexually abusing animals and toddlers. Buckingham also shared child sexual abuse material with other Discord users, and even engaged in sexually exploitative chats with at least one user who identified themselves as being 13.
Buckingham utilized multiple social media platforms, including Discord, to advertise his aspirations to become a gaming streamer focused on Rocket League. He went by several handles, including “The_Awakward_Package,” “DoubleDoc,” and “GamingDaddy” on TikTok, YouTube, and Periscope.
On a YouTube channel confirmed by Reduxx as belonging to Buckingham, the predator promoted his own full line of self-branded merchandise despite only having 73 subscribers.
Buckingham was also active in Native American suicide prevention campaigns as a neurobiology student at Washington State University. An X account belonging to Buckingham reveals that he was on the Washington State Suicide Prevention Plan Steering Committee in 2015, and met with Senator Tina Orwall in 2015. In 2017, Buckingham was listed as a Substance Use Program Manager at Circles of Care, a community health service for the Makah Indian Nation.
On June 2, 2020, the Washington State Patrol obtained a search warrant for Buckingham’s residence. Upon questioning, Buckingham denied any sexual contact with minors, and initially denied ever exchanging any sexual abuse media on Discord.
Brian Buckingham advertising his self-branded merchandise in a screenshot from his YouTube account.
Because Buckingham is a member of the Makah Indian Nation and the crimes were committed on Makah land, the case was referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the United States, major crimes committed in Indian Country are unable to be prosecuted by state officials and fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government.
Buckingham was initially indicted on two counts – one of the production of child pornography, and one of the distribution of child pornography. But the indictment was later revised to include three counts of the production of child pornography, one count of the distribution of child pornography, and one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child.
Buckingham’s case was slow-moving through the justice system due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His attorneys also pressed for a comprehensive mental health evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial. His attorneys briefly began to explore the possibility of a “sexsomnia” defense after receiving a report that suggested Buckingham may have a tendency to perform sexual acts in his sleep.
On December 4, 2024, Buckingham waived his right to a trial and entered into a plea agreement, admitting to the production of child pornography and abusive sexual contact with a child.
Brian Buckingham. Photo Source: FACEBOOK
Just prior to being sentenced, Buckingham’s attorneys submitted a memorandum informing the court that he now identified as transgender and had changed his legal name to “Nani Love Buckingham.”
In a court document dated March 20, 2025, the pronouns used to refer to Buckingham were swapped to “she/her” and his transgender identity abruptly became the focus where it had not been mentioned at all in dozens of previous filings.
The memorandum claimed that Buckingham was suffering from “gender dysphoria” and had become depressed in wake of the Executive Orders issued by the Trump administration prohibiting the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from “affirming” the “identity” of federal inmates who identify as transgender. It also revealed that the Bureau of Prisons had previously hastily arranged “gender-affirming medical treatment” for Buckingham just prior to Trump’s inauguration, but that the procedures had been abruptly cancelled due to the Executive Orders.
“BOP previously provided Buckingham with gender-affirming medical treatment and accommodations to address her gender dysphoria, including hormone therapy. The gender-affirming health care she was receiving afforded her relief from the distress of gender dysphoria and significantly improved her mental health,” the document reads. “However, the hormone therapy has now ended and the gender affirming surgery that was previously scheduled has now been cancelled. As a result, Buckingham’s depression and suicidal ideation have been exacerbated.”
Buckingham’s defense requested he be allowed to serve his time in FCI Butner in North Carolina, writing that the “reputation of this facility is that it is a safer location for transgender individuals, there is better access to psychiatrists, there are stronger health services available.”
The court ultimately imposed a sentence of 252 months in prison, and adopted the recommendation that Buckingham serve his sentence at FCI Butner. He was also ordered to pay $2,450 in restitution.
Just prior to the sentence being formalized in that case, Buckingham had already begun to file a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Trump administration officials for alleged violations of his human rights.
In a motion filed in April of 2025, Buckingham claimed that Bureau of Prisons had violated his Eighth Amendment rights and his rights under Section 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by denying him access to “medically necessary care.” Buckingham described himself as a “transgender female” in the motion, and claimed that he was at risk of irreparable harm if the accommodations were not provided to him.
From Buckingham’s lawsuit agains the federal government.
“My mental health, psychological well being, and my ability to function have been severely damaged. I am in constant pain. I feel like I am being tortured, and I am very close to killing myself to make it stop,” Buckingham wrote. “I want an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction requiring the [Bureau of Prisons] to resume my life-saving, medically necessary [gender dysphoria] treatment and accommodations before I kill myself.”
Buckingham submitted two declarations to support his case, including one from Dr. Dan H. Karasic, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Karasic recommended Buckingham be scheduled for immediate consultations for “facial feminization surgery, laser hair removal, and voice/speech therapy as gender affirming care.”
On September 18, United States Magistrate Judge David Christel filed a report determining that Buckingham was “likely to succeed” on the merits of his claims that his Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated.
“Buckingham has presented evidence that she suffers from a serious medical need, gender dysphoria. She also has presented evidence that Defendants were aware of her need for the Consultations,” Judge Christel wrote, referring to Buckingham with feminine pronouns. “The evidence shows BOP healthcare providers at FDC SeaTac referred Buckingham for the Consultations, and then BOP healthcare providers at FCI Butner discontinued the requests for the Consultations without reason and summarily denied her request for the facial feminization consultation … The undisputed evidence shows the Consultations are medically necessary.”
Judge Christel then recommended Buckingham’s motion for a preliminary injunction be granted, and that an injunction ordering the Bureau of Prisons to provide him with the cosmetic consultations be issued. Explicitly included were those for laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery, and voice training.
United States District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez adopted Christel’s recommendations, and gave the Bureau of Prisons 30 days to comply with the mandatory injunction.
From Judge Ricardo Martinez’ order following Judge Christel’s recommendations.
On October 8, the Bureau of Prisons filed an objection to Judge Christel’s report and recommendations, asking the court to either dismiss the case or pause it until a related class-action lawsuit—Kingdom v. Trump, brought by three transgender inmates challenging the Trump administration’s executive order banning gender-affirming care in federal prisons—is resolved.
“The defendants respectfully request that the Court dismiss Buckingham’s claims without prejudice—or, in the alternative, stay them pending resolution of the class claims in Kingdom v. Trump—and deny Buckingham’s motion for a preliminary injunction,” the filing stated.
Buckingham’s attorneys quickly countered, urging the court to uphold Judge Christel’s recommendations.
“Judge Christel correctly found that Ms. Buckingham has shown evidence of a serious medical need, that the BOP was aware of this need but failed to provide appropriate care, and that her ongoing distress and suicidal ideation constitute irreparable harm,” their response read. “Defendants have shown no hardship in providing the necessary consultations, nor have they offered valid grounds to stay or dismiss the case.”
The court has not yet ruled on the Bureau’s objection, but the preliminary injunction is likely to be reaffirmed. If Buckingham ultimately receives his requested “gender affirming” cosmetic procedures, it could mark one of the first successful challenges by a transgender inmate to the Trump administration’s executive restrictions.
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The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down the federal government’s one-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession and accessing child pornography, ruling that the penalty violates the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The decision upholds a 2023 judgment from the Quebec Court of Appeal that found the law unconstitutional under section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The appeal stemmed from two separate criminal prosecutions in Quebec, both of which involved men who had hoarded massive amounts of child sexual exploitation files.
The first case related to a 28-year-old soldier named Louis-Pier Senneville who was convicted of possessing and accessing child pornography. Evidence presented at trial showed that Senneville had amassed a digital collection of 317 images, 90% of which depicted children between roughly three and six years old.
The images were of a highly sadistic nature, and were described in court as featuring depictions of the toddlers being sodomized and violated. During his 2018 trial, Senneville claimed that his motivation for hoarding the images was that he had intended to track down the men responsible for creating them as a “vigilante.” The prosecution easily poked holes in his defense, noting that he had accumulated and accessed the files over the course of 13 months and had never made a single complaint to police.
Senneville later pleaded guilty, expressed remorse, and participated in therapy while awaiting sentencing.
Despite there being a one-year minimum sentence, Judge Tremblay of the Court of Québec sentenced Senneville to just 180 days in jail, to be served intermittently on weekends, along with two years of probation and a 20-year order requiring registration as a sex offender. Tremblay refused to apply the one-year mandatory minimum, deciding that it was unconstitutional and stating it would impose punishment “disproportionate” to Senneville’s circumstances.
Judge Tremblay described Senneville as “genuinely remorseful” and claimed that he had no “pedophilic or hebephilic sexual interests” despite hoarding the trove of child pornography.
Louis-Pierre Senneville
In the second case, Mathieu Naud was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography under the same Criminal Code provisions in 2020.
Police investigators found 531 image files and 274 videos on Naud’s devices depicting children between approximately five and ten years old being raped. Naud had attempted to hide the evidence of his crimes, and used specialized software to conceal it, access it, and make it available to others.
Judge Dalmau of the Court of Québec similarly refused to apply the mandatory minimum one-year sentence, and instead imposed consecutive sentences of nine months for possession and eleven months for distribution, plus two years’ probation, mandatory therapy, a DNA order, and sex-offender registration. Dalmau justified the reduced sentence by describing Naud as having “low self‑confidence, a tendency to be avoidant, an inability to define his identity and a defeatist attitude.”
The Attorney General of Quebec appealed both Senneville and Naud’s sentences to the province’s highest court, arguing that Parliament’s mandatory minimum reflected the seriousness of crimes involving the sexual exploitation of minors and that uniform penalties were necessary for deterrence and denunciation.
In June 2023, the Quebec Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in 2023 QCCA 731, holding that the mandatory minimums for possession and accessing child pornography were unconstitutional because they could capture “lesser” offenders, such as first-time offenders who possessed small collections or teenagers who sent intimate images of themselves to other teenagers, and compel sentences far harsher than appropriate.
Taking its case to the Supreme Court of Canada, the province of Quebec urged the reinstatement of the minimum, maintaining that child exploitation crimes demanded automatic imprisonment of at least one year to reflect societal condemnation. But Defense counsel and several interveners, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, countered that the law was too broad, creating potential for extreme injustice in marginal cases.
The Supreme Court agreed with the lower courts, finding that while the offenses are serious, the mandatory minimum prevents judges from imposing “proportionate punishment tailored to each offender.” While acknowledging that child pornography offenses are among the most serious in the Criminal Code, the justices concluded that Parliament’s fixed one-year minimum risked being “grossly disproportionate” in rare or hypothetical cases. The Court insisted that sentencing must remain flexible enough to consider “the circumstances of the offender,” even in crimes of clear moral gravity.
The ruling, which was published just hours ago, has drawn sharp criticism from legal observers and victims’ advocates who argue it weakens accountability for crimes involving child sexual abuse material, and has sparked a wave of backlash on social media from Canadians outraged at the decision.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision echoes a similar judicial controversy that erupted in Germany last year.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Germany’s Parliament (Bundestag) voted in 2024 to amend its Criminal Code, effectively removing provisions that classified possession of child sexual-abuse material as a felony and substantially reducing the minimum sentences for related offenses.
Like with the reasoning advanced before Canada’s Supreme Court, the German government justified the reform on the basis of ensuring “proportionality” and “judicial discretion” in sentencing. Officials cited situations such as parents or teachers who accessed illicit material to report it to police, or teenagers exchanging explicit content among themselves, as examples of cases where rigid minimum penalties could lead to unfair convictions.
🚨Germany's Parliament has officially voted to decriminalize the possession of child pornography.
The move is being celebrated by a "pedophile rights" activist group which has also called for the age of consent to be dropped to 12.https://t.co/JtUNA4wgZg
However, instead of creating narrow exemptions for such limited circumstances, lawmakers opted to broadly reclassify possession of child pornography as a lesser offense, a decision that drew immediate international controversy.
The change was publicly welcomed by a fringe pro-pedophile activist organization known as Krumme-13, which has long campaigned for the normalization of adult-child sexual contact. The group issued statements online praising the Bundestag’s move as a “step forward,” prompting backlash from child-protection advocates and legal experts who warned that the reform risked weakening deterrence for serious sexual-exploitation crimes.
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A trans-identified male in Denmark who has been given permission to compete against women in football is being celebrated by national media. Oliver John Collenette, who calls himself Olivia Kjærgaard Collenette, began claiming a transgender status approximately three years ago, and shortly after began demanding the right to play on a women’s football team. Now, he has been granted approval by DBU Zealand (DBU Sjælland) to play on one of the club’s women’s teams.
In a glowing interview published this week by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Collenette expressed his disappointment that the policy allowing men like himself to compete in women’s sports was not yet a national measure. To date, only DBU Zealand, the local governing body for football on the island of Zealand, has put into place guidelines allowing men to “identify” into women’s teams.
“I’m actually happy that I can play with the gender I identify as. But it’s not so nice that you don’t know how it will be in the other unions. It would be nice if it were nationwide – if the whole country supported transgender people,” Collenette told DR.
Until recently, Collenette had played football on men’s teams. “It was terrible for me when I played with the boys. I didn’t feel like I fit in, and I felt left out of the community,” he told the national broadcaster. “The fact that I was wearing girls’ clothes and felt like I was being looked at a lot and not really talked to… I was ostracized and I felt like I wasn’t welcome in a way, so it made me very insecure.”
Collenette indicated, in the interview, that women expressed opposition to his inclusion in women’s sports. “In the beginning, when we went to games, we always asked the teams before we showed up if they were okay with playing with us. When they heard there was a transgender person, they said no.”
“I don’t see why it would be a problem for biological women to play alongside transgender women who act and identify as women. It’s not about taking anything away from anyone, it’s about creating more diversity,” Collenette added.
However, team manager for the women’s team in Frederiksberg Fritids Fodboldentusiaster, Mille Sørensen, voiced her concerns over the decision by DBU Zealand. “Perhaps you haven’t thought through the fact that there might be teams where there are suddenly more biological men on the field. And you haven’t considered how it affects girls and women to be asked to ignore the fact that they are playing against a biological man – even though they can clearly see it. I think that is very problematic,” she said.
Last November, Collenette was also positively profiled by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which produced a podcast episode advocating for his inclusion on a women’s team. The Danish Football Association (DBU) had been under fire for the implementation of a new policy allowing local football clubs to create their own guidelines regarding the involvement of males claiming to be transgender women.
Reduxx has identified a Pinterest profile belonging to Collenette in which he had shared fetish content, calling into question his narrative and motive for joining a women’s sports team.
In one Pinterest album titled “Petticoated Boys,” Collenette shared the cover of a short book titled “Feminizing Men: A Guide for Increased Joy in Crossdressing.”
According to a description on Amazon, the book is intended as a guide for “male-to-female crossdressers.”
“Maximize the joys of being a male-to-female crossdresser and increase the gratification, satisfaction, degree of sensuality, and amount of time you have to enjoy it in this quick but thought-provoking short read. This is a guide that will help feminized men—husbands, boyfriends, sissies, those in female-led relationships, or cuckolded males who are feminized.”
“Feminizing Men” has hundreds of reviews and ratings on Amazon. One reviewer commented: “The sexually explicit desires described in the section about libido pushes the envelope to another level when it talks about the feminized male crossdresser using sex toys and being with men and how it feels to be with men. This book pulls no punches it tells how feminized men feel and the desires they have to feel like a women and sex is what makes it feel real.”
Other titles by the same erotic fiction author include pornographic stories such as “Feminized Bimbo Husband,” “The Hypnotist – A Cuckold Husband is Hypnotized and Turned into a Shemale,” and “Forced Feminization: A Hot Wife, Cuckold, Forced Fem, Male Chastity, Feminized Men, Shemale Slut Story.”
Collenette shared the content around the same time he would have begun identifying as transgender.
As previously revealed by Reduxx, the Danish Football Association (DBU), when discussing the decision, had consulted with a trans-identified male who published homemade fetish pornography of himself while dressed in women’s lingerie.
Shortly afterwards, Jacobsen filed a lawsuit against psychotherapist and blogger Lotte Ingerslev, alleging she had “misgendered” him in a posts she wrote warning her followers about the hardcore fetish pornography he had made. Nadia Jacobsen was interacting online with several accounts producing or sharing “sissy” or “forced feminization” genres of pornography, which include themes of men being turned into women via sexual penetration and humiliation, clothing, and makeup.
In Jacobsen’s case, he had posted a photo of his genitals locked in a cage, or “chastity device,” while encouraging his followers to share the image. “I have gotten to a point where I don’t really want to masturbate like a boy anymore, so I will only be cumming like a woman,” Jacobsen wrote.
On November 24, 2023, the DBU published a statement announcing that “all genders are welcome in Danish football,” and promising to implement a new position within the organization for a “diversity officer.”
“DBU will make a structural investment for increased diversity. As one of the first things, DBU will hire a diversity officer whose expertise in, among other things, this area will help with inclusion,” the statement reads.
“Towards 2025, the goal is to create the framework for it to become possible in grassroots football for transgender people to play with the gender they identify as… The method is based on self-identification, which has already been introduced in German grassroots football, and the method aims to ensure that everyone feels included and welcome.”
Additionally, the DBU published a guidance on “inclusion” with Jacobsen’s input, which encourages Danish football clubs to permit men to enter women’s locker rooms and changing facilities.
“The dressing situation can be challenging for people with a different gender identity, and it is important that care is taken about the possible challenges, so that the dressing situation does not strain inclusion,” reads the document.
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A violent transgender pedophile has been released into the community of Everett, Washington, after serving 30 years behind bars for child rape, kidnapping, and child molestation. Jolene Charisma Starr, born Joel Thomas Nichols, had served part of his sentence in a women’s prison.
As reported exclusively by Reduxx, Starr was convicted of multiple violent offenses, including two assaults on young girls and the attempted rape of a woman engaged in prostitution.
The first assault took place in August of 1993 in which Starr targeted an 11-year-old girl. According to an appeals record, Starr had carefully planned out the attack on the girl, which the court stated took a “high degree of sophistication.”
Posing as a telephone repairman, Starr gained access to the girl’s home after observing her residence and noticing that her parents had left without her. Trusting him, the child allowed him inside the apartment, where he cornered her. When she tried to flee, Starr quickly overpowered her and forced her to the floor.
According to the grisly account, Starr had brought with him a pair of panties he wanted the child to wear for him as part of a sick fantasy he had. She complied out of fear after he threatened her. He procured a knife and slowly cut the underwear off of the child before first attempting to penetrate her vaginally. After the girl expressed pain, he turned her over and raped her anally.
Following the assault, Starr ordered the girl to take a shower, ostensibly in an effort to destroy the evidence of his crime. But after she did so, he raped her both vaginally and anally once again.
After forcing the child to take a second shower, Starr threatened her and told her not to tell anyone. As he left, he took with him the cut panties, along with a condom he had worn during the assault.
Jolene Charisma Starr
Starr began identifying as transgender after being sentenced to 30 years in prison for the brutal rape of an 11-year-old girl.
He is currently housed with women at WCCW, where our sources have described him as "violent."
The next year, in August of 1994, Starr attempted to kidnap a 9-year-old girl from Yost Park, but the attack was only stopped by the heroic efforts of three brave little girls who had been in the vicinity.
After grabbing the 9-year-old victim, her screams attracted the attention of two sisters, aged 10 and 12, and their cousin, aged 10. The girls raced to the other child’s aid, and grabbed ahold of her as Starr attempted to drag her out of the park. Starr attempted to dissuade the girls by claiming that the victim was his daughter, but the group didn’t believe him.
The children successfully wrangled the 9-year-old away from Starr, who fled when they claimed a parent was nearby. The young heroines then surrounded the victim with their bicycles and ensured she made it to safety.
Just four days after the attempted kidnapping at Yost Park, Starr physically assaulted and attempted to sexually assault a 24-year-old prostituted woman. The victim had been paid for sex by a member of Starr’s family, who then complained to Starr about her performance. Starr became enraged and lured the victim to his home by offering to pay her for sex. When she arrived, he attacked her and attempted to rape her. The woman was able to escape and run to a nearby house for help.
Starr was arrested shortly after, and was identified as the suspect in the attempted kidnapping based on descriptions that had been given by the children. A DNA sample from Starr then successfully connected him to the 1993 child rape case.
Starr was handed an “exceptional” 360-month sentence, amounting to 30 years behind bars on counts of first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, and first-degree kidnapping, and more. He unsuccessfully attempted to appeal the sentence in 1998.
In 2023, Reduxx learned that Starr had been transferred to the Washington Correctional Center for Women.
A source within the facility came forward and explained that female inmates were petrified of Starr, describing him as a “really violent sex offender.” The source named Starr “the worst [trans inmate] yet” to be transferred to the facility, which has been plagued with controversies as a result of accomodating a number of trans-identified male transfers.
But Starr has now been released from prison, and has been registered as a “female” sex offender.
The notice reveals that Starr has been assessed as a Risk Level 3, which is defined by Snohomish County as extremely high risk offenders “who are a threat to reoffend if provided the opportunity.” The definition goes on to state that most offenders in this category “have prior sex crime convictions as well as other criminal convictions. Their lifestyles and choices place them in this classification. Some have predatory characteristics and may seek out victims. They may have refused or failed to complete approved treatment programs.”
Starr is currently residing in the city of Everett, Washington, and has listed his birth name as an alias.
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A trans-identified male who made TikTok content has appeared in court charged with rape and domestic violence. On October 20, Manchester Crown Court heard how Jordan O’Brien, who also goes by Jennifer Nieve, exerted coercive control over his partner and sexually abused her.
According to court documents shared by a former friend, O’Brien was charged with six counts of sexual abuse, including rape, assault by penetration, strangulation, coercive control, and threatening to assault the victim with a weapon. According to the court records, the offenses took place between June and December of 2022.
O’Brien is described as having exerted terrifying control over his victim, monitoring her cellular device, destroying her possessions, and being verbally abusive towards her. Among the more serious convictions, O’Brien was found to have raped his victim with a dildo, strangled her, and threatened her with a knife.
On Friday, October 20, O’Brien was found guilty of four out of the six counts for domestic abuse and sexual assault during a hearing at Manchester Crown Court.
O’Brien had amassed over 60,000 followers on social media for videos he made about identifying as transgender, and, judging by comments made on TikTok, had been receiving gifts from his fans. One respondent stated that they had come to regret spending over £100 on O’Brien after learning about the charges against him.
Despite identifying as transgender, O’Brien claimed to hold “controversial opinions” within the community, and affirmed that he believed humans could not change biological sex. In one video, he stated: “I am a genetic male. I was born male. I will always be male. I do not think it is possible – actually, I know it is not possible to go from male to female. You can present more feminine, you can be a feminine male, and you can be born in the wrong body – in my opinion, not scientific fact.”
Since his conviction, multiple former associates of O’Brien have come forward to express their outrage at the situation and reveal more details about O’Brien’s history.
One of his former friends, a woman who goes by the name Daisy Mae, came forward with an apology for the victims while revealing that she had been aware that O’Brien had been running private chats with minors since 2020.
“I’m so sorry to every victim!! I knew this was happening since January 2020. The amount of kids who came and told me Jen was in private Snapchat groups with kids that are 14/15 … I hope you can rest now you have justice,” Mae wrote in a TikTok caption. In the same video, Mae stated that O’Brien was a father of four, and suggested that he had previously served time in prison before.
O’Brien’s former roommate, a drag queen who uses the moniker Charli Angel, also took to TikTok to condemn O’Brien for his crimes. Angel, who attended the trial at Manchester Crown Court, said he had been misled about the serious nature of the charges against him, while referring to O’Brien with feminine pronouns.
“I’ve just been at the Manchester Crown Court for the past three days – Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. A while ago Jennifer told me she had a court case coming up, and she really downplayed the charges against her. She said that she’d been wrongly accused, that she would never do such a thing, and I believed her.”
“A few months ago I realized she had a five-day trial at Manchester Crown Court and I realized it wasn’t a minor thing, it was a major, serious thing… I’ve not ever been told the whole truth of who she is, what she’s accused of, or what actually happened… She’s not the person that I thought she was.”
Former roommate Angel added that after the jury found O’Brien guilty on 4 of the 6 counts against him, the judge stated that he would be “put away for a long custodial sentence.” He is set to be sentenced in January of 2026, and has been remanded to custody until then.
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The Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled that trans-identified male powerlifter Joel “Jaycee” Cooper experienced “sex discrimination” when USA Powerlifting barred him from competing in the women’s category. In a precedent-setting decision handed down on Wednesday, Chief Justice Natalie Hudson argued that USA Powerlifting’s policy prohibiting males who claim a transgender status from competing against female athletes constitutes discrimination on the basis of both sex and sexual orientation.
“Under the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) protection of transgender individuals against discrimination based on sexual orientation, a policy that expressly prohibits transgender women from competing in the women’s division of a powerlifting competition is facially discriminatory and constitutes direct evidence of discrimination based on sexual orientation,” the ruling states.
The Minnesota Human Rights Act was amended in 1993 to include the concept of “gender identity,” making it the first state in the U.S. to define a self-declared transgender status as a protected characteristic. The MHRA was then updated in 2023 at the behest of trans-identified male lawmaker Leigh Finke. The first U.S. city to adopt similar policies was Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1975.
Under the MHRA, “gender identity” is protected under the broader category of sexual orientation, which is defined as “having or being perceived as having a self-image or identity not traditionally associated with one’s biological maleness or femaleness.”
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear the case of a trans-identified male suing @USAPowerlifting for not allowing him to compete against females.
Jaycee Cooper has threatened women who oppose his participation, claiming it is a violation of his rights.https://t.co/xPKdNSs7Jt
Cited in the decision was USA Powerlifting’s policy that it “does not allow male to female transgender athletes at all,” that “trans women couldn’t compete in the women’s division,” and that “we do not allow male to female transgender athletes at all, full stop.”
During court deliberations, USAPL’s attorney Ansis Viksnins argued that the policy was based on biology rather than an individual’s self-declared gender identity, and said, “USA Powerlifting did not exclude Ms. Cooper because of her gender identity. She simply was excluded from a women’s division because she had gone through puberty as a male and has significant strength advantages.”
The case has been ongoing since 2021, and was initiated by Cooper after USAPL denied his application to compete in the Women’s State Championships.
According to a complaint lodged on Cooper’s behalf by trans activist legal group Gender Justice, Cooper first began competing in women’s powerlifting in 2018. While training for the Women’s State Championships, which took place on January 19, 2019, Cooper was informed that he would not be granted permission to participate.
In 2019, Cooper was recorded as weighing 280 pounds, and by that time he had already won two titles in the women’s category despite having only entered the sport the year before. He has also set a new benchpress record in the female category with a 214.5-pound lift.
“On December 5, 2018, USAPL emailed Ms. Cooper, informing her that she could not compete because she is transgender,” reads the May 2024 complaint referring to Cooper with feminine pronouns. “USAPL then revoked her competition card, which means that she was not eligible to compete in future USAPL events. USAPL MN then went on to hold both championship events, at which all transgender women athletes were prohibited from competing.”
Mentioned in yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling was an email from a USAPL Committee Chair sent to Cooper in response to his application: “Male to female transgenders are not allowed to compete in our static strength sport as it is a directive competitive advantage.”
This is Joel Cooper. Joel is a man who now calls himself "JayCee" and believes he is entitled to cheat women out of awards and recognition in sport.
Rather than defend the rights of female human beings, the Minnesota court sides with Joel. pic.twitter.com/Ur0RfIGQPX
USAPL published a statement clarifying their policy regarding athletes who claim a transgender status in 2019. “Identifying as one sex does not defy the factual physical differences between sexes that exist regardless of sex reassignment or hormone suppression,” the statement reads. “The assertion of gender choice, although legal to change in parts of the world, does not erase the dimorphic differences of sex, formalized at birth and continually developing throughout the lifespan, that have direct implications to performance advantages.”
At the time, USAPL also released a transgender participation policy which states: “Men naturally have a larger bone structure, higher bone density, stronger connective tissue and higher muscle density than women. These traits, even with reduced levels of testosterone do not go away. While MTF may be weaker and less muscle than they once were, the biological benefits given them at birth still remain over than of a female.”
However, Gender Justice has insisted that Cooper, who was “assigned male at birth” is in fact a “woman” who has been the victim of “discrimination” for being barred from competing against women.
In 2023, Judge Patrick Diamond ruled in favor of Cooper, stating that USA Powerlifting’s policy banning trans-identified males from competing in the women’s division was discriminatory under Minnesota law. Judge Diamond also ordered USA Powerlifting to immediately stop “discriminating” according to gender identity and to revise their policies within two weeks.
USA Powerlifting said the decision required them to “cease doing business” in Minnesota. “We believe the judge has misinterpreted Minnesota law in this regard and exceeded his authority in terms of the conduct of our service to our members,” reads a USAPL statement.
“We will appeal this highly unusual ruling. However, while these proceedings play out, we are ordered to suspend competitions in Minnesota and cease selling memberships to Minnesota residents. We are investigating relocating Midwest Regionals and further information will be forthcoming.”
USAPL then relocated their Midwest Regionals from Minnesota to Wisconsin in order to avoid a risk of further lawsuits filed on the basis of their policy prioritizing biological sex over gender identity.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court verdict overturns a 2024 decision from the Minnesota Court of Appeals which found in favor of USAPL and partially reversed Judge Diamond’s ruling.
USAPL attorney Viksnins called the ruling a partial victory for both sides, and said that the decision means they will get to tell a jury “why excluding a transgender woman from competing in the women’s division was for legitimate reasons, for maintaining fairness in athletics.”
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A prominent German drag queen who frequently rubbed shoulders with celebrities and politicians is being investigated for possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Jurassica Parka, 46, has been named as the subject of an ongoing operation by Berlin authorities.
The Berlin public prosecutor’s office confirmed that police searched Parka’s apartment in Schöneberg in early July 2025 after a tip from the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) linked the entertainer’s IP address to suspected child-pornography access and storage.
Police have since seized Parka’s electronic devices for forensic analysis, but no formal charges have been filed to date and details are limited at this stage as the investigation continues.
Parka [middle] with Berlin’s Mayor, Kai Wagner [right].
In a video statement posted on Instagram, Parka, whose real name is Mario Olszinski, confirmed that he is under investigation for an alleged online offense but was vague and offered few details about the nature of the accusation.
In the video, he described “a period last summer” marked by “crashes” and “a loss of control,” adding that he has since entered therapy and suspended his stage performances. Comments on the post were disabled.
Parka has been a household name in Berlin’s gay performance community for more than a decade and has previously held the title of “Miss Christopher Street Day” at Berlin’s annual pride event. He has also acted as a “Queer Berlin Ambassador” for the tourism campaign by Place2Be Berlin, officially representing the LGBTIQ scene in the city.
As a result of his prominence, Parka has been photographed rubbing shoulders with top politicians and celebrities in Germany, and frequently gets invited to influential entertainment events.
Despite the fact that Parka identifies as a gay man, most German-language news outlets referred to him using feminine pronouns.
In a 2015 interview, Parka explained that the “the urge to wear women’s clothes has always been in me,” and described childhood memories wearing his grandmother’s clothes. In that same interview, Parka claimed that wearing women’s clothes was a way for him to “express” himself.
“I have for myself found a channel through which I could release energy, immediately I was hooked,” he told the interviewer.
At the time of the announcement of the criminal investigation, Parka hosted a talk show at the BKA-Theater in Kreuzberg and had been the head organizer for a party series at the club SchwuZ for over a decade.
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The Taiwanese boxer who was at the center of a sex row at the Olympics is on track to win gold at Taiwan’s National Games in the women’s boxing category. Lin Yu-Ting has been unable to participate in any international events since the Olympics due to the implementation of sex-testing policies.
The National Games of the Republic of China kicked off on October 18, representing the 114th iteration of Taiwan’s national multi-sport competition. The annual event takes place among Taiwanese municipalities, counties, and cities, and is being hosted in Yunlin this year.
Among those participating at the event is Lin Yu-Ting, the controversial winner of the 2024 Olympic gold in women’s featherweight boxing. Competing now in the women’s 60KG division, Lin has been steadily winning matches in a climb towards women’s gold at the National Games.
On Monday, Lin, 29, was matched to compete against 19-year-old Pan Yan-Fei.
The fight ended just 1 minute 34 seconds into the opening round after Pan was subjected to several head shots and appeared short of breath. Her coach almost immediately threw in the towel, prompting the referee to halt the match. The result was recorded as “abandoned” (ABD) rather than a knockout, indicating that the stoppage was initiated for medical precaution, not as a result of a definitive finishing blow. According to a report by CNA, Pan was experiencing difficulty breathing and was having a hard time recovering from the head blows.
Pan, representing National Taipei University of Technology Affiliated Taoyuan Agricultural & Industrial Senior High School, is a youth-level boxer who previously competed in Taiwan’s U22 category at 54–57 kg and won a national high-school title in 2023. She was making her first appearance at the senior National Games. Event officials said she was examined ringside after the fight and was able to walk unaided. No medical statement has been issued, and her condition is described as stable.
Lin’s female competitor, Pan Yan-Fei, during a past match.
Following the match, Lin declined to address questions about his ongoing gender-eligibility controversy, stating only that he was “still adjusting to the 60-kilogram class.” Lin’s coach, Tseng Tzu-Chiang, said the match was “routine” and would not comment on regulatory matters.
Lin is on track to win gold at the National Games in the final this week, which would make it his 7th consecutive win in women’s boxing at the National Games. The event does not have any known sex testing protocols in place.
Despite enjoying ample domestic support during the Olympics, Taiwanese netizens are torn over Lin’s continued participation in women’s boxing. On one Taiwanese forum discussing the results of the National Games, the response was almost uniformly negative as many netizens encouraged Lin to step away from athletics.
“[Lin] got into the Olympics and ad deals by gaming the system; [he] should just retire. Retire and save face,” one user wrote.
“If you’re not allowed to play internationally, why do you have to participate in the domestic competitions?” another asked, referencing the fact that Lin has been unable to participate in any international events due to a recent sex-testing requirement implemented by World Boxing to protect female athletes. A second user echoed the comment, writing: “Too scared to undergo testing for international competition, but in domestic matches [he] hits hard.”
“Human rights have made great progress, and there is still money in beating up women,” another user said.
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports was notified of Lin’s performance at the National Games, and condemned his continued participation in female athletics.
“Allowing a male boxer like Lin Yu-Ting to compete in the women’s division is a blatant violation of fairness and, most importantly, a grave safety risk to female opponents,” said spokeswoman Marshi Smith. “Eligibility policies must clearly define that the women’s category is reserved for female athletes only. Rules mean nothing without enforcement. You wouldn’t verify a weight class without a scale, and you can’t claim to have a women’s division without verifying sex. In a boxing ring, this isn’t just an unfair competitive advantage, it is a potentially deadly one. World Boxing got it right with its newly implemented sex screening protocols, and now national federations must follow its example.”
Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. He added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”
Despite being disqualified from the World Boxing Championship, Lin was permitted by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to compete in the Paris Olympic Games in the women’s featherweight category. This was made possible by the fact that the IOC had ended sex testing for athletes in 1999, and allowed individual Olympic committees to set their own rules for eligibility.
Lin easily won the gold medal at the Olympics in a 5 – 0 sweep. His match against Turkish boxer Esra Yildiz Kahraman drew particular concern from critics after he delivered what appeared to be an illegal rabbit punch to the back of her head – a move that is banned on the basis for its potential to cause brain damage or death. As Lin struck the back of Kahraman’s head, the audience booed, and even the sports commentator noted with surprise that, “Lin got away with that.”
During the Olympics and due to the Reduxx report, the participation of both Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif came under intense media scrutiny, as did the decision of the IBA to have previously disqualified Lin and Khelif from women’s events.
Yesterday, the International Boxing Association held a press conference addressing the concerns surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting.
𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘹𝘹 has created a supercut of relevant sections.
During the press conference, clarification was also given by Dr. Ioannis Filippatos, the former Chair of IBA Medical Committee, who similarly stated that the blood and medical tests found the boxers were male. It is reported that during the conference, BBC journalists walked out in protest of this statement.
Neither Lin nor Khelif are believed to be transgender, and instead were suspected of being impacted by a Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD) – a category of medical conditions which often cause a person’s reproductive organs and genitals to be “mismatched” at birth. Male infants born with a DSD are often accidentally recorded as female due to what appears to be an absence of external genitalia.
The speculation that Lin and Khelif may have a DSD was accidentally confirmed by the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach during the Paris games.
At one point, Bach was forced to issue a correction of an erroneous statement he made in which he said that the cases of Lin and Khelif were “not a DSD case.” A hasty correction swapped the word “DSD” with “transgender.”
Following the Paris Olympics, Lin quietly slipped out of the stoplight while Khelif took center stage in repeat controversies. Some of Khelif’s medical records were leaked, proving he had an XY karyotype.
Despite this, Khelif boasted of his wins while threatening to sue those who he claimed “falsely” labeled him as male. Those suits appear to have been abandoned, and Khelif has stepped back from World Boxing-sanctioned events. The timing of his decision coincided with an August announcement from World Boxing stating that they would be implementing a policy requiring sex testing for all women’s competitions. Khelif has since launched an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging the WB’s decision to implement a sex testing requirement.
Following the WB policy update, Lin’s coach stated that the boxer was undeterred and had every intention of participating in the September World Boxing Championships. Lin had also reportedly agreed to submit to a sex test. However, Lin was conspicuously absent from the Championships and the Taiwanese boxing authority refused to respond to questions from press as to why there was an abrupt change of plans.
Since the Paris Olympics, Lin has refused or failed to participate in every boxing competition where an unambiguous sex test was required.
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A self-identified pedophile who was arrested after storming on stage wielding a gun during a Wikipedia conference in New York was also an active participant in a forum that has influenced academic literature. Connor Weston, 27, from Dayton, Ohio, attended the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedia editors which was held October 16 to 19 at Union Square’s Civic Hall, where he ran up onto the stage and pointed a loaded gun at his head.
Local media The New York Post reports that Weston declared, “I’m a non-contact pedophile. I want to kill myself,” before he was tackled by staffers, disarmed, and taken into custody.
While at the event Weston wore a flag designed by members of the online “minor-attracted persons,” or MAP, community. The blue, yellow, and pink flag was draped over his shoulders while a sign around his neck read, “ANTI-CONTACT NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILE.”
Reduxx has learned that Weston had been active in an online forum dedicated to promoting the concept of a “non-offending pedophile.” In September 2024, Weston became a member of the Virtuous Pedophiles (VirPed) community, where he remained mostly quiet, until a few months ago.
Virtuous Pedophiles (VirPed) is a group founded in 2012 that purports to seek the de-stigmatization of pedophilia in order to facilitate “harm prevention and personal support.” Members acknowledge that they have a sexual attraction to children, but claim to want lead normal productive lives without abusing children. The group has repeatedly claimed they have a “commitment to non-offending” and position themselves as a resource for journalists, academics, and public education on pedophilia.
In July, Weston began to ask questions to the community related to safety concerns, and started a discussion thread titled “What happened to Todd Nickerson that I should be afraid of?”
Nickerson had already been a pro-pedophilia advocate for over a decade when he joined VirPed in 2014 and became a prominent spokesperson. In 2015, Salon published an opinion piece by Nickerson titled, “I’m a Pedophile, But Not A Monster.” The publication appears to have deleted the article after facing backlash.
Weston’s question initially asked other forum participants if Nickerson had been “murdered,” presumably due to his quiet exit from pro-pedophile activism. When group members inquired as to why Weston believed Nickerson had been killed, he quoted statements that had been made by a forum administrator, RaccoonDad, who identifies himself as a Lead Tech Admin & MSC Liaison.
“People have been actively attacked and killed for being non-offending pedophiles, look at Todd or anyone who’s been publicly outed,” RaccoonDad is quoted as saying in Weston’s post. “Todd was stalked and harassed… Every time you say, ‘I’m a non-offending MAP,’ everyone who isn’t the small percentage of people who get us will hear that and think you are saying: ‘I rape children, or will rape children, or watch child porn or just am someone who’s evil and will do something bad,’ and they are going to act based on that [caricature] of you, not how you actually are.”
Weston responded: “Yes, I know that. That is what I am trying to change. Also, I call myself a pedophile, not a MAP.”
Apparently spurred on by RaccoonDad’s replies, Weston wrote shortly after: “This made me so mad that I rode my bike downtown and held up my ‘ANTI-CONTACT NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILE’ banner at a crossroads until my arms got tired. Thank you for giving me the push to finally do that. I’ll need to go to Lowe’s [hardware store] and assemble some rigid backing for it so I can stay out there longer.”
As evidenced by a post and photo shared by Weston on his X account, he would go on to assemble a stand for the banner, which he again displayed publicly on at least one other occasion prior to pulling out a gun at the Wikipedia conference this month. Weston’s X account also demonstrates he was frequently interacting with “loli” content on the platform – a style of Japanese animation featuring highly sexualized depictions of young girls.
Disturbingly, the tagline on Weston’s VirPed profile reads: “A cowed little mouse. Tail between your legs. Silent and subservient. You take your beatings.”
As reports of Weston’s actions have circulated, VirPed members have commented sympathetically and expressed concerns for his safety.
“It is with regret that I report that our own, Connor, has had a mental health-related incident,” said one member, using the name SiennaFallow. “I want to expound my deepest hopes that he is in the care of people who will treat him like a human being, and perhaps help him in some way that we couldn’t? I do hope that when he is well again, he will return and talk to us about his experiences.”
“I would never do this or recommend it or condone it, but I don’t see any other way that you would ever get a story about us in the mainstream media without something like this. Sad but true,” said another user called Benjamin Harker.
Another participant, lostinage, who states that he “[adores] girls 5-13,” expressed concerns that law enforcement may investigate the forum as a result, saying, “I guess the FBI is going to comb through this site to see if we promote terrorism of any kind.”
As previously reported by Reduxx, a former VirPed director was allegedly recently arrested in Norway and charged with the rape of two children under the age of 14. The man, who has remained unnamed in Norwegian press but is known as “Charlie” online, was reportedly a primary school teacher in Rogaland and was arrested on July 9.
Charlie was released from police custody on August 13 and is awaiting trial, according to a co-director of the Virtuous Pedophiles (VirPed) group who calls himself Markus, and allegedly admitted to law enforcement that he had sexually abused a child “several years ago.”
The head of a well-known “non-offending pedophile” activist group has been charged with raping two young children in Norway.
The group, Virtuous Pedophiles, has been promoted by some academics and journalists as a “harm reduction” resource.https://t.co/IDGX9hz9Eu
Members of the Virtuous Pedophile forum have influenced academia and sexual abuse prevention organizations. VirPed leaders work with another influential pro-pedophile group known as B4U-Act, which hosts a yearly “MAP” conference.
Goals for the conference included promoting “affirming, compassionate care for MAPs,” and continuing with a trend from previous years, professional social workers were encouraged to attend, with the promise of receiving Continuing Education Units (CEUs), which are credits earned by attending approved training, workshops, online courses, and other professional development activities.
Another director at VirPed, “Sammy Jenkis,” posted a public apology to the group in May stating that he had “violated” the “physical and personal boundaries” of a “young adult” at a “MAP community conference” hosted by B4U-Act.
“My actions after a party at the B4U-Act conference had me betray everything we stand for… a young adult was there, I was there, and I violated physical and personal boundaries. I ignored consent.”
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a UK-based child protection charity dedicated exclusively to preventing child sexual abuse praises the Virtuous Pedophile community on its official website, where the charity has given VirPed a rating of “pioneering.”
“The work of Virtuous Pedophiles has been supported by a range of professionals including academic researchers in the psychology field,” reads the charity’s statement, before linking to a series of testimonials posted on the VirPed website.
A pro-pedophile organization has been distributing letters in public libraries across the UK, leaving appeals for sympathy in books.
Virtuous Pedophiles says its goal is to “reduce the stigma" of pedophilia, and claims that children can be pedophiles.https://t.co/2tCmcHqvXP
The group has also been covered positively in dozens of mainstream media outlets. In 2014, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offered them praise in a profile titled “Virtuous Pedophiles Group Gives Support Therapy Cannot.”
One notable academic endorsement of VirPed comes from Ray Blanchard, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Blanchard has helped to devise protocols and guidelines used internationally via his work with the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM). Blanchard served on the DSM-4 Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders in the early 1990’s, and was again appointed to the DSM-5 Working Group on Gender and Sexual Identity Disorders.
Of VirPed, Blanchard said: “People do not choose to be attracted to children or adults any more than they choose to be attracted to males or females. Not all pedophiles are child molesters (or vice versa). Child molesters are defined by their acts; pedophiles are defined by their desires. There are pedophiles and hebephiles who never act on their sexual attraction towards children. They cannot be blamed for what they feel, and they should be supported for the constant self-restraint they must exercise in order to behave ethically.”
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