A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old has lodged a legal complaint against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) seeking a transfer from a sex offender treatment unit to the state’s only women’s prison, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF). While court records protected the pedophile’s identity, Reduxx can reveal him as Robert Gladulich – though he is listed in DOC records as Samantha Abigail Gladulich.
In 2011, Gladulich pled guilty and was sentenced to a maximum term of 10 years for the aggravated sexual assault of a child which he committed on Christmas Eve of 2010. While limited case details are available, it is known the young victim was the daughter of one of Gladulich’s friends. He was indicted on charges of sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. In addition to a 10-year prison term and sex offender registration requirement, Gladulich was sentenced to parole supervision for life.
After serving his sentence at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC), the court civilly committed Gladulich to the Special Treatment Unit (STU) for supervised parole. The STU houses sexually violent predators (SVP) who have completed their prison sentence but require strict, long-term monitoring. New Jersey defines an SVP as someone who “suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in acts of sexual violence if not confined in a secure facility for control, care and treatment.”
In July 2023, Gladulich began seeking a transfer from the STU to New Jersey’s only prison for women, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. In November of that year, Gladulich submitted a Gender Identity Information Form to the DOC to officially have his biological sex listed as “female” within its record system.
Following this, he then filed a grievance alleging he was being subjected to “discriminatory treatment and harassment from other residents,” including one instance of physical assault, and denial of “gender affirming care.” He requested that the DOC “identify a female-only residence” where he might be transferred and that prison authorities allow him to “submit a formal request for transfer to this female-only site.”
In January 2024, the DOC denied his transfer request, reasoning that it “does not have a separate facility or housing unit for transgender residents,” and that placement “outside the STU… poses management and security issues with regard to… the safety of the public.”
Prison officials noted that DOC policy regarding the housing of inmates who claim a gender identity applies only to incarcerated individuals, and not to residents of the STU.
Lawyers for the convicted pedophile launched an appeal, alleging discrimination and that “gender-based indignities” had occurred as a result of their client being housed at the STU.
However, on March 4, the court of appeals sided with the DOC’s decision denying Gladulich’s transfer to a women’s prison.
“The DOC is bound by law to house sexually violent predators separately from inmates serving criminal sentences and designates the STU as the sole treatment facility for all adjudicated SVPs [sexually violent predators],” read the recent decision. “This classification is not arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. It serves the statutory purpose—protection of society and provision of treatment.”
Judge Mark K. Chase, speaking for a three-judge panel, noted that an investigation had failed to uncover evidence of discrimination or sexual assault against Gladulich. The decision further noted that Gladulich had been placed in his own room, with access to a single occupancy shower, with the ability
to purchase personal items. Judge Chase also pointed out that the DOC had been “actively affirm[ing]” the child sexual abuser’s “transition.”
“The DOC staff actively affirms S.G.’s gender identity, she participates in twice weekly process groups where her gender identity is clinically addressed, she has a supportive group of transgender peers, and DOC staff escort her to medical transition appointments and ensure that she has proper treatment for her transition.”
While Gladulich continues his fight for transfer to a women’s prison, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) has long held a lenient policy when it comes to housing inmates based on their self-declared “gender identity.” The policy followed a settlement agreement in a 2019 ACLU-backed lawsuit.
While the lawsuit was initially filed on behalf of an anonymous trans-identified male inmate, in 2023, Reduxx revealed for the first time that the ACLU had been representing a convicted terrorist and diaper fetishist. Since the 2019 landmark ruling, the NJDOC has permitted the transfer extremely violent and sexually depraved male convicts who declare themselves as “transgender.”
However, in October of 2022, the NJDOC was forced to revise its gender identity housing policy after a convicted killer impregnated two women at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women (EMCF). Demetrius “Demi” Minor, who was serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of his foster father, was transferred to the women’s prison on the basis of his self-declared gender identity.
NJ Advance Media reported that the DOC’s external affairs executive director had confirmed that two women at EMCF had become pregnant after having “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person,” later revealed to be Minor.
When news of the two pregnancies at Edna Mahan made international headlines, prison officials transferred to the vulnerable housing unit at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adults ages 18 to 30. While at Garden State, Minor instructed another incarcerated killer on how to secure a transfer to the women’s facility.
Jamie Belladonna, who is serving a 40-year sentence for beating a woman to death, worked with Minor to secure his transfer to the EMCF. 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.
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