The trial of a trans-identified male inmate known for posing a significant risk to women began this week in Limerick County Court. Barbie Kardashian, born Alejandro Gentile, who is serving a sentence for threatening to rape, torture, and murder his own mother, is accused of threatening to rape and murder female prison officers and inmates while he was incarcerated in the women’s wing of Limerick Prison last year.
Kardashian, 22, faces a total of four counts of making a threat to kill or cause serious harm. He issued threats to to Limerick Prison officer Roisín Linnane on April 25, June 9, and June 11, 2023, reports The Irish Examiner. Kardashian is also accused of making a threat to inmate Tegan McGhee, who he told he wished to kill or cause serious harm to on February 25, 2023.
Prosecuting barrister John O’Sullivan told the jury that the threats involved the mention of sexual violence, including rape and assault.
“The allegations against the accused are threats to kill or cause serious harm, and there may be mention of threats to rape and or cause sexual assault,” Mr O’Sullivan told the court.
“The accused has identified as a female, and, in June 2020 the accused changed names by deed-poll to Barbie Kardashian, and successfully applied for a gender recognition certificate, and changed from male to female on the 18th of August, 2020,” he addded.
In August of last year Kardashian made headlines after he was transferred out of the women’s section of Limerick Prison as a result of safety concerns. According to a prison source who spoke to the Irish Mirror, Kardashian was deemed “extremely violent towards women” and concerns were raised about the “huge threat” he posed to inmates and staff. Kardashian was quietly moved to a men’s prison, but has been set on “restricted regime,” meaning he cannot leave his cell while other inmates are present.
Now detained in the men’s facility, Kardashian is currently serving a 5 and a half year prison sentence for threats he made to brutally attack and murder his own mother. The sentence was handed down after he was found guilty of the charges against him during a trial in May of 2022.
Kardashian was convicted of 11 total counts of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to his mother and a care worker at Coovagh House, the secure facility for children he had been staying at since being remanded to special care in 2012. While residing there, Kardashian displayed “sexualized” and violent behavior towards female staff from the early age of 10.
During the trial, former Deputy Social Care Manager from Coovagh House testified that on multiple occasions in 2020, Kardashian had expressed a desire to rape and murder his mother.
“[He] clearly expressed [he] wanted to track her down, identify where she lived and kill her – to murder and rape her,” the witness stated, continuing that on a separate occasion, Kardashian “expressed a clear desire to rape and mutilate [his] mother’s genitals.”
After his conviction, Kardashian was placed in the women’s ward of Limerick Prison in accordance with his legal sex recorded on his identification documents. But less than two weeks later, it was revealed that Kardashian had been threatening to rape members of the prison’s female staff, escalating concerns about his placement in the female estate.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Kardashian has previously been convicted of a plethora of crimes including sexual assault, physical assault, and threats to kill. Several top justice officials, including Detective Garda Niall Fitzgerald of the Roxboro Garda Station and the Gardaí, have concluded that Kardashian is a serious danger to the public.
As a child, Kardashian was the victim of sustained abuse at the hands of his father, who also directed depraved abuses at his mother. His father had prevented his mother from breastfeeding or holding him when he cried, and physically and emotionally abused him throughout childhood.
Eventually, his violent father initiated his son in participating in the abuse of his mother.
At age 8, his mother fled with him to a safe house, but Kardashian was already extremely violent and directed much of the abuse towards her. Just two years later, Kardashian was taken into special care after carrying out a brutal attack against his mother. The woman was forced to move to another part of the country as Kardashian continued to express an urge to rape and murder her, including detailed plots of how he’d torture her.
According to court documents from 2018, at 13 years of age, Kardashian attacked the female driver who had been transporting him from court after appearing on a bench warrant. Without warning, Kardashian grabbed the woman from the backseat, tearing off her eyelids and ripping out clumps of her hair. He later expressed disappointment that he hadn’t been able to murder the woman outright.
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