An inmate at New Jersey’s only women’s prison is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit she filed against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) alleging that she was sexually abused by a trans-identified male transfer. In the August 2023 complaint, the woman, identified in court records as F. H., said that a “transgender inmate” with “fully functioning male parts” raped her on two occasions, in September and October 2022.
While the name of the male transfer was anonymized as Q. G. in court records, Reduxx can reveal that the “transgender inmate” named in the lawsuit is violent convict Quagee Gibbons, who stands at 6’1″ and weighs nearly 300 pounds.
Gibbons, who is listed as a “female” in the New Jersey inmate directory, has multiple convictions, including for manslaughter in 2014, threats of violence, and physical assault.
According to the suit, the Edna Mahan Corrections Facility for Women (EMCFW) houses multiple trans-identified male inmates who routinely harass the women there. F. H. alleges that the NJDOC and EMCF “failed to take timely and adequate corrective actions to protect the women inmates from transgender inmates with a fully functioning male sexual anatomy.” Despite numerous complaints being lodged about the men’s “sexually aggressive and harassing behavior,” corrections officers and the NJDOC ignored the women’s concerns.
Prison officials “failed to create a safe and secure environment for the female inmates,” reads the complaint. “Transgenders were allowed to mix with females in areas with no correction officer supervision or oversight. An example is that transgenders were housed with female inmates in areas with no security cameras.”
In September and October 2022, F. H. was housed in the same wing as Gibbons. She notes that due to the lack of cameras in the hallway, male officers were not permitted to enter the area without first announcing themselves.
Despite this, Gibbons was given “unfettered access and private access” to F. H., who she says “used his / her penis to commit both oral and vaginal intercourse.” She reported the sexual assault to EMCF staff, but was issued disciplinary charges in retaliation. Attempts were made to transfer her to a prison in another state, and F. H. says she has been repeatedly placed in solitary confinement.
In her lawsuit, F. H. requested financial compensation for her “severe emotional distress”, as well as punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees. She also invoked the Law Against Discrimination (LAD), asserting that she was discriminated against and harassed on the basis of her “gender.”
F. H. explained that leading up to the instances of rape and sexual assault, NJDOC officials were aware that two women had already been impregnated by a trans-identified male transfer. This incident, which was confirmed by authorities in April 2022, involved a convicted killer named Demetrius ‘Demi’ Minor having sexual relations with female inmates, causing two women to become pregnant.
At the time, Reduxx spoke with a female inmate at EMCF who said that Minor was one of several men who had been aggressively pursuing sexual contact. As news of the pregnancies made international headlines, EMCF officials moved Minor, along with four other male transfers, to the Vulnerable Persons Unit (VPU) of the prison. One of the men who was removed from the female general population was a serial child sex abuser, whose criminal record shows 10 counts of sexual assault against a victim under the age of 13.
In his motion to dismiss F. H.’s complaint, counsel for the NJDOC, Attorney General Jeremy Feigenbaum, appeared to argue that F. H. was transphobic.
In his response, Feigenbaum wrote that the plaintiff had made a “sweeping generalization that all transgender women incarcerated at EMCF are dangerous and engage in sexually harassing and / or assaultive behavior.” The Office of the Attorney General said the claim that convicted male criminals pose a threat to incarcerated women was a “baseless” assertion.
“As best as can be discerned from a review of the Complaint, Plaintiff’s theory of liability is that Q. G. posed a risk to her safety because Q. G. is transgender and for no other reason… Plaintiff repeatedly suggests that all transgender women housed at EMCF are dangerous. Plaintiff implies that transgender women inherently pose a safety risk by asserting that ‘transgenders were allowed to mix with females in areas with no correction officer supervision or oversight,’ and were ‘housed with female inmates in areas with no security cameras.'”
He continued: “Plaintiff further asserts that the DOC and EMCF failed to ‘protect the women inmates from transgender inmates with a fully functioning male sexual anatomy.’ Plaintiff also states that ‘at least two [cisgender] female inmates became pregnant from sexual interactions with transgenders,’ and that Defendants knew of those pregnancies,” Feigenbaum said. “But that contention, too, rests on imputing dangerousness to transgender incarcerated persons as a class: Plaintiff does not allege that Q.G. was in any way involved in those events.”
Feigenbaum denies accountability on the part of prison officials by arguing that F. H. did not describe Gibbons’ behavior leading up to the sexual abuse in her complaint.
“Plaintiff does not allege that, prior to the alleged assault, she had any interactions with Q.G. She likewise does not allege any facts about Q.G.’s behavior before the alleged assault that would have alerted any of the Defendants to the need to reduce Q.G.’s purported ‘access’ to Plaintiff.”
The Attorney General asked the court to dismiss F. H.’s allegations of rape on the basis that she did not provide sufficient detail about Gibbons’ behavior, and that her complaint did not describe in detail how often she had alerted officials about his aggressive behavior.
According to F. H.’s attorney James Wronko, Gibbons had committed several infractions while he was housed at a men’s prison before his transfer to EMCF, including setting multiple fires and damaging government property. He continued this pattern of behavior as soon as he arrived at EMCF.
Yet in May 2026, Judge Patrick Heller dismissed her lawsuit, despite the fact that Gibbons’ DNA had been “found in a semen stain” on F. H.’s underwear after the assault.
Within the month that F. H. told prison officials she had been raped, Gibbons was transferred out of EMCF and into a men’s prison. Attorney Wronko has told local press that he intends to appeal the decision.
As previously revealed by Reduxx, a man convicted of murder was quietly transferred into EMCF in 2024 after he had been mentored by Demetrius Minor, the inmate who impregnated two women there. Elliot Rivera Jr, who now calls himself Jamie Belladonna, is serving a 40-year sentence for beating a woman to death, and worked with Minor to secure his transfer to EMCF while the two were housed in the same unit at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility (GSYCF).
In February 2023, Minor said that he had provided information to Rivera “about the transition process.”
“Another trans woman housed at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility has attempted to castrate herself. This marks the third woman including Demi to attempt to mutilate her genitals in the past year!,” the Justice 4 Demi account, created by Minor, posted to X.
“This woman knew very little about transitioning beyond that she needed hormones and wanted surgery. Demi showed this woman the information we had provided her about the transition process (DOC has basically never provided her any medical information about transition),” the post continued.
There have been multiple cases documented by Reduxx of male inmates informing fellow convicts on how to “transition” and demand a transfer to a women’s prison.
In one case, a trans-identified male who raped two 9-year-old girls before torturing and murdering his developmentally disabled cellmate was discovered to have been “offering” his “expertise” to policymakers on the issue of transgender inmate rights. While incarcerated, Patricia Elaine Trimble started taking female hormones and immediately began teaching other inmates about “gender dysphoria”. That mentoring, which has included helping other trans-identified males gain access to benefits after declaring a transgender identity, had allegedly earned Trimble the nickname “Mother.”
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