A conservative non-profit organization has launched a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Corrections (WADOC) on behalf of a female inmate who says she was brutally assaulted by a dangerous transgender pedophile being held at the state’s women’s facility. The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) is challenging the WADOC gender identity policy that allows men to request a transfer to the female estate, arguing that the policy has “led to multiple instances of violence and sexual abuse against the female inmates.”
The AFPI suit claims that the WADOC is violating female inmates’ Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments rights, which protects prisoners from sex discrimination and from “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Prison officials are accused of continuing to place trans-identified male inmates in the Washington Correctional Center for Women (WCCW) while “simultaneously ignoring, disregarding, and dismissing complaints of sexual harassment, assault, intimidation, and violence that have ensued as a foreseeable result of their failure to segregate incarcerated people on the basis of sex.”
“Under this policy, male convicts who self-identify as women are permitted to request a transfer to the prison meant exclusively for females, where they are permitted to share cells, bedrooms, bathrooms, and showers with an all-female population,” states the AFPI complaint.
“Although Washington maintains multiple all-male correctional facilities, it no longer maintains a single female-only prison: only females are deprived of the right to serve their sentences in a single-sex sex-segregated facility.”
In particular, the lawsuit focuses on a series of physical and sexual assaults alleged to have been committed by two trans-identifying male inmates, both of whom are serving sentences for the violent sexual abuse of underage girls: Christopher Williams, a registered sex offender, and “Nonnie Marcella Lotusflower,” born Nathan Goninan, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of a teen girl.
Current inmate Faith Booher-Smith spoke with Reduxx last September describing how she was struck repeatedly in the head by convicted pedophile Williams, who has remained in the women’s prison despite having been accused of sexually assaulting a female inmate just last year.
On August 7, 2025, Booher-Smith recounted how Williams, who stands 6’4″, began punching her in the face in an apparent retaliation against her for calling him a “rapist.” Booher-Smith, in contrast, is 5’4″.
“I was kicked and punched continuously. At this point, I saw who was doing this – Christopher Williams. I was immediately in fear for my life, trying to block while protecting my face and head, kicking out with my feet,” she says.
Despite there being a corrections officer nearby, no prison staff intervened to stop the brutal assault.
The current lawsuit notes that a high-ranking prison official had initially opposed Williams’ transfer to WCCW, stating that Eric Jackson, Superintendent of Monroe Correctional Complex (the male prison Williams was requesting transfer out of) recommended against transferring him to the prison for females “due to the fact that Williams was convicted of inflicting life threatening injuries ‘to a female victim.'”
Despite sustaining serious injuries, including facial bruising, a laceration in her mouth, and swelling to her jaw and eye, her complaint about Williams was “mocked, ignored, and even retaliated against by prison officials,” according to the complaint.
The AFPI suit also cites two previous lawsuits filed by former inmate Mozzy Clark, a former inmate who, in her legal claims, stated that Williams had sexually assaulted her over a period of months after she was made to share a cell with him.
“Williams masturbated in front of her, groped her while she slept, and repeatedly threatened her with rape. During these episodes, prison staff ignored concerns for her safety and even discouraged her from filing official complaints, cautioning her about potential retaliation,” according to the AFPI filing.
The incident occurred in April of 2022 after he was moved into her cell.
The woman, who Reduxx referred to by the pseudonym Mary, had been prescribed sleeping medication to help with her growing anxiety at sharing a cell with the sexual predator.
Williams had been sexually harassing her with increasing aggressiveness. she noticed that Williams began to sit next to her bed at night after she took her medication. One night, she was woken up to the sound of an officer pounding on their cell door, demanding to know why Williams was sitting next to her bed. Mary speculates that the officer likely saw Williams touching her during her rounds.
“I’m not sure how many times he touched me because of my [meds]. But one day I came back to my cell from a work shift and he had two strap-on dildos and asked me to use them on him. I refused. That night, I was woken up to him touching me.”
Mary says she was voicing her concerns to staff, but was “pretty much being ignored.”
Christopher Williams’ first conviction occurred in 2005 for the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl. Williams, who was 16 years old at the time, rubbed the vaginal area of the child and groped her buttocks. He was initially charged with child molestation in the first degree but was ultimately convicted of assault in the third degree with sexual motivation, to which he pleaded guilty.
Williams was ultimately handed a suspended 52-week sentence in juvenile detention, and was required to register as a sex offender. He would go on to again be convicted of assault in 2008, and then would rack up multiple arrests and convictions for failing to register as a sex offender as required over the coming years.
Another trans-identified male transfer named in the AFPI suit is “Nonnie Marcella Lotusflower,” or Nathan Goninan, who has been accused of violently assaulting another female inmate, after which he was placed in restrictive housing at WCCW.
Last year it emerged that Goninan, or Lotusflower, was charged with intimidating a public servant and malicious mischief in the first degree after he threatened and assaulted a female correctional officer.
Court records obtained by Reduxx describe how Goninan began threatening a correctional officer lieutenant on the morning of September 24, 2024. The officer, along with a prison psychologist, had been scheduled to visit Lotusflower in order to conduct an administrative hearing to address his “unauthorized actions” in the facility. The lieutenant was acting as an Administrative Hearings officer when Goninan began shouting, “Get out, I will fucking hurt you, get the fuck out of my face, I swear I will hurt you.”
The convicted killer then made a sudden forward motion as if attempting to lunge towards the lieutenant. Both the officer and psychologist were able to leave the small room and called for assistance. As the two were outside the room, Goninan was able to partially break free from his restraints and began shouting “Boo!” at them in an attempt to frighten them.
Staff responded to the call for backup and the use of force became necessary, and Goninan was sedated. Several other violent outbursts made by Goninan were detailed in court records, including an incident of vandalism wherein he broke a glass window in the facility’s library, and another incident in which he shouted, “I am stomping down any cop and slitting their throats. I am murdering you all. I don’t care.”
The AFPI claim highlights how senior WDOC official Deborah Wofford, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Women’s Division, acknowledged that Goninan was an “unmitigated threat to the safety of other incarcerated individuals,” had made serious threats of bodily harm toward staff, and exhibited “overtly threatening and aggressive behavior” that was “not typical” of individuals incarcerated at WCCW.
Goninan was convicted on second-degree manslaughter charges for the brutal murder of 17 year-old Jessica Franklin. He targeted Franklin just hours after being released from prison in 2007, and upon his release, strangled her to death. Her body was found beneath an underpass in Bellingham, Washington, and a forensic examination revealed signs she had been sexually assaulted.
Attorneys for AFPI argue that the WADOC has been aware of the ongoing sexual and physical violence at WCCW as a result of gender identity policies, and that officials are responsible for the ongoing violence against women occurring there. “Despite these repeated acts of violence against female inmates, WDOC continues to house male inmates at WCCW out of a confoundingly religious adherence to the Transgender Inmate Policy,” says AFPI. “The result is an environment of threats, violence, and chaos in a State-maintained penitentiary established to house and rehabilitate female prisoners.”
“Nothing has changed in the wake of the violent assault on Booher-Smith. No additional security measures have been implemented at WCCW to segregate male inmates from female inmates, boost security, or otherwise ensure that violent attacks like the one perpetrated on Booher-Smith do not recur. Nor has a single, meaningful change been made to WDOC’s Transgender Inmate Policy.”
“A women’s prison is supposed to protect women,” said Leigh Ann O’Neill, chief legal affairs officer at AFPI. “Washington’s policy turned that basic duty on its head. When the state knowingly forces women to live with men in intimate correctional settings—even after assaults, abuse allegations, and repeated warnings—it is violating the women’s constitutional rights.”
The women’s prison in Washington has a number of trans-identified males currently being housed there, including serial killers, pedophiles, and rapists.
Among them is Donna Perry, a serial killer who murdered 3 women in 1990. Part of Perry’s motivation was a jealousy over women’s reproductive systems, and he once confessed to murdering up to 9 women in total.
In 2023, an internal source at the prison informed Reduxx that there were almost one dozen male inmates at the women’s facility, and of them, the majority had been convicted of crimes against women or children.
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