A 53-year-old butcher who maintained a chilling “female” persona on social media has now been charged with rape and other sexual crimes in relation to his alleged abduction of an 11-year-old girl.
Andrew Miller appeared in Selkirk Sheriff Court today and was charged with alleged abduction, rape and sexual assault including sexual exposure to a young child, the Mirror reported.
Miller was also charged with offenses relating to the possession of an indecent photograph of a child, behaving in a threatening and/or abusive manner, and forcing a child to look at a sexual image. Upon hearing the charges, Miller made no plea and was remanded in custody and will be tried at a later date.
These new accusations provide a darker insight into the girl’s ordeal after she was held away from her family for nearly 27 hours. Miller had initially been taken in on charges of abduction, as well as for threatening or abusive behavior under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 during his first court appearance on February 9. No sexual component to the crimes had been formally asserted until today.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was first reported missing from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders area on the evening of Sunday, February 5, after failing to return home following a play date with friends. Police said she was around a “20 minute walk from home” before she disappeared without a trace, prompting a massive multi-agency operation into locating the child. Countless volunteers took to the streets in a bid to find the youngster.
Police Scotland announced that the girl had been found on February 7 in Montgomerie Terrace in the village of Gattonside, and she was returned to her family. Later that same day, law enforcement said they had arrested a man in connection to the girl’s disappearance.
Local sources came forward and revealed that the individual who had been apprehended was Andrew Miller, a local butcher known for his crossdressing habit.
Reduxx quickly discovered two Facebook profiles belonging to Miller, one of which utilizes a “female” identity under the name “Amy George.” Miller appears to have operated a “male” and “female” account simultaneously, with one using his birth name, regularly posting on both of the profiles.
In January of 2020, Miller posted on teaching children to explore their identities.
“That simple question that we ask ourselves… who am I? Deliver that same question to your children. Let them be themselves. Guide them, but not with boundaries. Teach them, but not with misguided morals. Love them and let them know and feel that they are loved, because that is the greatest gift of all,” Miller posted as “Amy George” in January of 2020.
In January of this year, Miller made a post alluding to the debacle surrounding Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act.
“Silly Billys [sic] in Westminster… Never mess with Scottish Transgender Issues,” Miller wrote just days after the UK Government moved to block a piece of Scottish legislation which sought to significantly relax the requirements for individuals to change their legal sex in Scotland.
Miller’s transvestic tendencies were apparently well-known within his community.
A source local to Miller told Reduxx that he had been labelled “tranny Miller” while in high school because of his proclivity for crossdressing, and that he had been known as a “knicker pincher” even as a student for his tendency to steal women’s undergarments.
After graduating, Miller apparently began occasionally dressing in women’s clothes both in the community and in his butcher shop. Two sources independently claimed that Miller had past contact with police for stealing women’s undergarments from clotheslines.
Some research suggests that men with crossdressing fetishes, also referred to as transvestic fetishism, are more likely to be sexually violent as compared with other men.
A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that “fetishism and cross-dressing” are more often associated with sexual aggression than other paraphilias.
“Not only is transvestism associated with other paraphilias, it may go hand-in-hand with dangerous sexuality,” the authors wrote, noting that a 1989 study of serial sexual murderers found that 25% had engaged in cross-dressing, and 25% had engaged in acts of indecent exposure prior to committing an act of murder.
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Parents in the oceanside community of Nanaimo, British Columbia are sounding the alarm about a man who claims to identify as “female” behaving in what they say is a predatory manner while using the women’s facilities at the local Aquatic Centre.
Janayh Wright, a photographer and mother of three, spoke to Reduxx about her own encounter with the man — one she says she had heard about before interacting with herself. Wright explains that she was aware of rumors that a male had been using the women’s facilities at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre from other parents, some of whom said they had lodged complaints with both staff and local police.
On February 3, Wright was visiting the pool with her daughter and niece. She told Reduxx that she would typically wait for her daughter outside of the changing room, but decided to accompany her that day.
While in the changing room, Wright witnessed a man wearing a wig and a face mask enter the women’s facility and proceeded to walk over to the shower area. Wright says he did not have a towel or pool bag, and gave no indication that he was getting changed or going swimming. He then returned and entered the stall next to the one Wright’s daughter was changing in.
Wright watched as the man tried to peer under the stall and into the one her daughter was using. She immediately confronted him as he exited, but the man simply responded that he identified as female and that it was his “human right to be in the women’s changing room.”
Wright told him that she didn’t care what he identified as, and that he shouldn’t be peeking under the stalls at young girls.
She escorted the man out of the changing room and reported the incident to the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre staff, who told her that she was not allowed to kick him out. They warned her that she could be arrested and charged for her actions. Incredulous, Wright phoned the police and reported what had happened. The situation is currently under investigation.
But Wright is not the only local parent to have run-ins with the man in the changing room of the Aquatic Centre.
Word of the intruder had first started circulating on Facebook in late January when users began publicly sharing a post that had originally been made in a private group for Nanaimo mothers.
“Yesterday at Nanaimo Aquatic Center there was a man in the female changing room watching women and children undress,” the post, made on January 26, began.
“They had a short brown wig concealing their face and neon green/black runners… They kept taking on and off their shoes and walking to and from the showers/bathrooms to make it look like they were doing something. They sat in a private changeroom, fully dressed for about 10 minutes with the door open – strategically where a little girl was changing in front of.”
According to the post, multiple people alerted the Nanaimo Aquatic Center about the man, but they refused to intervene unless he was “causing a scene or harming someone.”
Speaking to Reduxx, Wright expressed that she is not transphobic, but that she has realized, “now, any predator can appropriate a transgender identity and gain access to our children. It’s opened my eyes to the fact that we don’t have rights as women and kids don’t have rights.”
“If I hadn’t been there and used my due diligence,” she added, “who knows what could have happened?”
On the evening of the incident, Wright made a widely-shared Facebook post about the encounter and was met with overwhelming support from parents and other community members, many thanking her for her actions.
One user shared the story of her own encounter with the man, writing: “We went a few days before this and he was there. He was staring at the girls getting changed and even went and sat in a change stall with it open and stared across at the people in the stall across. He just wandered around watching everyone.”
Wright told Reduxx that while she has received some messages accusing her of transphobia, the response has been 90% positive. “People are starting to wake up to it,” she said. “I was oblivious to the fact that you could [self-identify].”
Wright was referring to Bill C-16, which amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression,” granting men access to single-sex female spaces like washrooms, changerooms, prisons, and rape shelters. Canada’s provincial human rights acts have similar language.
“There are loopholes in Bill C-16,” said Wright. “There is no safety for women and children.”
The day after the incident, Wright made another post thanking everyone for their support and inviting them to stand with her at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre in protest. Some news outlets covered the demonstration, but labeled it “anti-trans.”
Around 100 people showed up to support Wright and to voice their concerns not only over the incident but also about children’s safety and women’s rights.
“Single-sex spaces matter for the safety of our kids. They matter for women’s rights and safety; they matter for homosexuals… You have to start fighting for your sex-based rights… If you don’t use sex-based language, your rights will not be protected. Don’t let them shame you. You’re discriminated against on the basis of your sex.”
Geiler told Reduxx that the demonstration had largely been well-received by the community.
“So many women came, some fathers, and children with placards. Zero trans activists and absolute silence over at Nanaimo Pride.”
Nanaimo Pride did break its silence later that day with a Facebook post condemning the “anti-trans talking points” in the public response to the predatory man.
The post continued: “We simply can’t know right now whether this alleged offender is trans in the early stages of transition, or a cisgender man looking for loopholes, or a bad actor using a common fears as a lightning rod to create an anti trans mob.”
Wright says she is ignoring the accusations and focusing on what really matters: the safety of women and children. She is in the process of starting a non-profit and using the hashtag #makemesafe to spread the word across social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
“I just want to get the word out there that we aren’t safe as women and children,” Wright said when speaking to Reduxx. “My goal is to bring awareness and to have people stand up with me to ask the government to look at this and to create change for safety for women and children.”
Down the line, Wright hopes that the non-profit can grow into an organization that helps people who have suffered abuse and sexual trauma access counseling.
For now, her aim is to raise awareness and come up with a plan that will “create safety and equality for everyone.”
“My grandma was all about women’s rights back in the day and always advocated for it,” said Wright. “She has dementia now, but she would be standing right next to me if she was in her right mind. I’m going to do her proud. I know I can do this.”
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A male who identifies as a “woman” has been convicted in relation to the 2016 rape of a teenage boy in the Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.
Sachu Samson, 34, has been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old boy nearly seven years after the incident took place on February 23, 2016. Samson was handed a seven-year prison sentence and 25,000 Rupee (approx. $300 USD) fine for the crime by the Fast Track Special Court of Kerala. The fine is set to be paid as compensation directly to the victim, and Samson risks an additional year in prison if he defaults.
During a hearing on February 7, prosecution told the court that the rape had taken place in a public restroom at a train station. The victim testified that Samson had threatened him and forced him into the closed area. The boy was then subjected to what was described as “unnatural sexual harassment.” Samson obtained the boy’s phone number at some point during the ordeal and contacted him repeatedly following the rape, demanding that the two meet again.
Under threat of “torture,” the victim did not inform his family of his ordeal. It was not until the teen’s mother began to notice her son acting strangely that Samson’s harassment of the boy was uncovered. The prosecution noted that the mother had “noticed that [her] child was constantly sending messages on the phone, and that the child was often afraid.”
Even after the teen attempted to block his assailant, Samson continued to find means of contacting him through social media. Eventually, the boy’s mother uncovered the Facebook messages Samson had sent to her son and contacted local police to file a report. Police worked with her successfully to “set a trap,” prompting the mother to message Samson and agree to another meeting, which led to his arrest.
Samson’s legal defense had reportedly attempted to use his “transgender” identity to argue his innocence, claiming he was now known as “Shefina” and had undergone “gender affirming medical procedures.” A medical certificate was used as evidence of Samson’s “Gender Affirmative Medical Intervention.”
During cross-examination, the victim stated that while Samson’s appearance and name have now changed, he was still the one who assaulted him and had been “a male person at the time.”
One doctor who stood as a witness confirmed that there was no evidence to suggest that Samson’s “gender identity” would have deemed him incapable of committing the sex crime against the minor. The court took the victim and doctor’s statements into consideration when rejecting the defense’s argument that Samson “had been a trans woman all along,” and couldn’t have committed the rape.
Samson will be detained in a women’s prison until transferred to a “special jail for transgender convicts,” according to Indian legal news outlet, Bar and Bench.
The Director of General Police was told by the Kerala court to make special arrangements for Samson, now referred to as “Shefina,” to safeguard “the dignity and honor of the accused… while she [sic] is detained at the women’s prison.”
The region of Kerala, where the assault was committed, is known as being one of the most “transgender-friendly” places in India.
Indian media covering the case have largely utilized “she/her” pronouns to refer to the rapist, referring to him as a “woman” or “trans woman.”
Vaishnavi Sundar, an independent filmmaker, writer, and women’s rights activist, responded to the inaccurate reporting and directed pointed criticism at Bar and Bench, writing that they were “capitulating” to gender ideology “by constantly addressing a male with female pronouns.”
Regarding the conviction of Sachu Samson, Sundar noted that the Judge’s order for the police to safeguard the “dignity and honor” of Samson while he is detained in a women’s prison meant disregarding female prisoners’ same dignity and honor. Sundar shared that female prisoners “are 20 times more likely to die by suicide and suffer with suicidal tendencies than women of the same age in the general population.”
In addition to her independent work, Sundar is also the Indian contact for Women’s Declaration International, a global organization of volunteers dedicated to defending women and girls’ sex-based rights.
In April 2022, Sundar covered the Delhi High Court’s passing of an order to implement “self-identification” terms for changing sex markers on passports. The ruling officially decreed that no medical intervention would be required for an individual to identify as the opposite sex, or change their legal documents. The Court called it “unnecessary and violative of the choice of the individual with respect to undergoing a surgical procedure to reflect the transition.”
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Un individuo que se identifica a sí mismo como “intersexual” y “mujer” ha sido arrestado por su participación en un aviso de bomba el 31 de enero. Lily Mestemacher, de 29 años, llamó para denunciar falsamente que había una bomba en una tienda de una ciudad a más de 200 millas (321 kms) de donde se encontraba él.
La policía de Oxford, Mississippi, respondió por primera vez a la amenaza de bomba el 31 de enero, anunciando a través de publicaciones en las redes sociales que se había llamado una bomba en un Walmart local. Se enviaron agentes y un equipo K9 de explosivos (perros policía) a registrar la zona en cuestión, que no encontraron pruebas de explosivos y declararon que el área era segura.
Se puso en marcha una investigación y la amenaza fue rápidamente rastreada hasta Lily Mestemacher, de 29 años, de Conway, Arkansas. Se emitió una orden de detención por denuncia falsa de colocación de explosivos, y Mestemacher fue arrestado en Conway. Al parecer, Mestemacher había hecho las amenazas en las redes sociales.
El 10 de febrero, Mestemacher fue trasladado a Oxford y fichado por los cargos. Fue visto en el Tribunal de Justicia del Condado de Lafayette para la audiencia inicial, donde el juez anunció una fianza de 50,000 dólares.
Algunos periodistas parecen no tener claro cuál es el sexo de Mestemacher, y al menos un medio afiliado a ABC lo etiquetó como “mujer intersexual” tras una declaración del agente de información pública del Departamento de Policía de Oxford. ABC 15 continuó afirmando que aquellos que identificaban a Mestemacher como “transgénero” estaban haciendo declaraciones falsas.
Reduxx se puso en contacto con el Departamento de Policía de Oxford, quien nos informó que Mestemacher se autoidentificaba como intersexual. Confirmaron que no tienen ninguna prueba que sugiera que realmente tiene un trastorno del desarrollo sexual. El Departamento no pudo proporcionar ninguna información sobre el sexo con el que Mestemacher estaba actualmente fichado.
Aunque por el momento se desconocen los motivos de la amenaza de Mestemacher contra Oxford, Reduxx ha tenido conocimiento de un podcast de 2021 grabado por él titulado “LivingthroughitwithLily”. El extraño audio de 30 minutos presenta a Mestemacher hablando de varios temas, como la religión, los demonios y el continuo espacio-tiempo.
Mestemacher como se ve en su perfil de HubHopper.
En el audio, Mestemacher dice que está “ascendido espiritualmente”. Toca música durante gran parte del podcast y usa varios acentos y voces cuando habla. Al principio dijo que usaba una “voz falsa” y luego le preguntó a la audiencia si debía usar su “llamativa voz real”, aunque haga que la gente “no quiera escuchar más”. A lo largo de la media hora, se oye a Mestemacher riendo de una manera inquietante.
En un momento dado, habla con música instrumental dramática de fondo y proclama: “Vale, esto es lo que he aprendido. Tú eres lo que buscas… Sin embargo, todo lo que hagas volverá a ti…. Tendrás que enfrentarte a tu egoísmo por lo que hiciste… No obstaculices tu crecimiento ni el crecimiento natural de nadie, y la negatividad de otras personas no importará nunca”.
Además, Reduxx descubrió varios perfiles de Instagram inactivos que parecían pertenecer a Mestemacher. Uno de ellos usa el handle @livingthroughitwithlilyonair, haciendo referencia al nombre de su podcast.
Otra cuenta, con el handle @nothingisembarrassing, utiliza el pronombre “elle” (“she/her/hers”) en una biografía en la que se puede leer: “En realidad es imposible odiar a nadie. Todo es luz y el ego es oscuridad. Debajo del pensamiento hay luz. Es imposible odiar a nadie”.
Un tercer perfil de Mestemacher usa el handle @lilyintersex y presenta otra serie de pronombres, “elle/elles” (“she/they/her/hers”).
Solo uno de los perfiles pertenecientes a Mestemacher tiene varias publicaciones, ésta de nuevo declarando pronombres “elle/elles” (“she/they”).
Mestemacher usó esta cuenta para mostrar un tatuaje que dice “dolor”, y publicó videos filtrados de sí mismo hablando con una voz aguda y mostrando un comportamiento errático junto con la misma risa espeluznante que se escucha en su podcast de 2021.
Una captura de pantalla de una publicación de uno de los perfiles de Instagram de Mestemacher.
También compartió una foto editada de la mitad de su cara unida a la imagen de un diablo acompañada de un pie de foto que incluye “#antichrist” y “#revelation”, entre otros hashtags de temática religiosa. Desde 2021 no ha vuelto a publicar nada en su cuenta.
En las redes sociales, muchos criticaron a WCBI News, la emisora local que fue la primera en informar sobre la detención de Mestemacher. El medio declaró que una “mujer de Arkansas” se enfrentaba a cargos y no mencionó el sexo o la identidad de género de Mestemacher.
While a man is accused of false reporting of placing explosives, media is false reporting that he is a woman. pic.twitter.com/CXm7M4HaOW
Se acusa a un hombre de una falsa amenaza de bomba, mientras los medios de comunicación informan de manera falsa que es una mujer.
“Este es el perfecto ejemplo de todo el movimiento de autoidentificación. ¿Quién en su sano juicio pensaría que es una mujer? Vuelve a los tiempos del espectáculo de la mujer barbuda y se aseguraban de que todo lo demás acerca de ella era femenino. Esto es una burla y se usa para sesgar todas las estadísticas criminales”, dijo el usuario de Twitter Stuart Slesh en respuesta al tweet de la fundadora de Giggle, Sall Grover, sobre la noticia.
“¿Pero cómo puedes saberlo? ¿Le has revisado los genitales a “ella”? Los expertos en pronombres de Twitter me ha asegurado que la única forma de saberlo es comprobándolo”, bromeó otro usuario.
A pesar de aparecer como “mujer”, Mestemacher fue fichado inicialmente como hombre, según una página en caché de la lista de reclusos del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado de Faulkner. Mestemacher estuvo bajo custodia del FCSO antes de su traslado a Mississippi por los cargos de amenaza de bomba.
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Un hombre canadiense condenado por la horrible violación de un bebé de 3 meses ha comenzado a identificarse como transgénero durante su encarcelamiento y actualmente está recluido en un centro penitenciario para mujeres con una unidad materno infantil.
En 1997, Adam Laboucan agredió sexualmente a un bebé de tres meses en Quesnel, Columbia Británica. Laboucan tenía entonces 15 años y había sido contratado para cuidar al niño. El bebé resultó tan brutalmente herido por la agresión que tuvo que ser trasladado a Vancouver, a 410 millas de distancia (660 kms), para recibir cirugía reconstructiva.
Después de cometer el horrible asalto, Laboucan “se mutiló y se comió su propia carne”, según informes de prensa.
Durante el juicio, un perito declaró que Laboucan mostraba “desde tendencias transexuales a pedófilas”. Un psiquiatra forense que examinó a Laboucan testificó que incluso él mismo creía ser un peligro para el público. “Dijo que no planeaba una vida criminal, pero sentía que no tenía forma de controlar el torrente de fantasías violentas y asesinas”, declaró el Dr. Ian Postnikoff ante el Tribunal Supremo de Columbia Británica.
Adam Laboucan / Tara Desousa, escoltado a la salida del tribunal de Columbia Británica el 18 de junio de 1999. (Ross Mitchell/Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
Postnikoff detalló además cómo se reunió con Laboucan varias veces en el Centro de Contención Juvenil de Prince George después de que el adolescente fuera condenado en 1997 por los cargos de agresión sexual. Mientras estaba bajo custodia, Laboucan se automutiló mordiéndose las muñecas.
“Durante su detención, se volvía contra sí mismo, pero este alto nivel de automutilación, casi autocanibalización, podía volverse contra otros individuos más débiles, con consecuencias posiblemente fatales”, agregó Postnikoff.
“Decía que morderse a sí mismo tendía a calmar la ira y la frustración”, dijo Postnikoff durante el juicio. “En una ocasión, se masticó el brazo durante 30 minutos, ingiriendo grasa y tejido muscular”.
El psiquiatra forense dijo que creía que sería necesario un tratamiento intensivo. “Con el historial y la gravedad de los delitos del Sr. Laboucan, es difícil decir cuánto puede durar su tratamiento”, dijo. “No es un delincuente sexual corriente. Yo diría que mucho tiempo, posiblemente años. Me preocuparía mucho que Laboucan fuera puesto en libertad en un futuro próximo”.
Según un reportaje de 1999 de la CBC, el psicólogo clínico Dr. Steve Sigmond declaró ante el tribunal que cuando examinó a Laboucan en 1997, el adolescente también había admitido haber ahogado a un niño de 3 años en Quesnel en 1993. Laboucan tenía 11 años cuando presuntamente cometió el asesinato, y nunca se presentaron cargos contra él porque, según la ley, un acusado debe tener al menos 12 años de edad.
La madre del niño, Delores Deutsch, dijo al tribunal que quería que Laboucan permaneciera en prisión el resto de su vida. “Pensaron que había sido un accidente, pero por dentro yo sabía que no lo había sido. No sé. Supongo que una madre simplemente lo sabe, es un presentimiento”, dijo.
Mientras el tribunal estudiaba su caso, Sigmond testificó que Laboucan había descrito tener fantasías sexuales con niños menores de tres años y que ya tenía antecedentes de comportamiento sexualmente agresivo en la escuela.
Debido a la terrible naturaleza del crimen, Laboucan recibió una rara sentencia de prisión indeterminada en 1999 a la edad de 17 años, y fue declarado el delincuente sexual violento más joven del país.
Adam Laboucan, también conocido como Tara Desousa. Fuente: Canadian Inmates Connect
Pero a pesar de la naturaleza violenta y sexual de sus crímenes, Laboucan se identifica ahora como “mujer” y ha sido trasladado a la cárcel de mujeres Fraser Valley Institution for Women de Abbotsford.
Si bien se desconoce cuándo Laboucan comenzó oficialmente su “transición”, un perfil de citas de 2018 que salió a la luz recientemente, muestra al convicto jactándose de su “vagina” e implantes mamarios.
“Soy una mujer transgénero y nací hombre, pero ahora, después de la cirugía, me convertí en una mujer completa”, escribió Laboucan en su perfil de Canadian Inmates Connect. “Tengo una vagina, no un pene, y también tengo implantes de gel DD de 720 ccs”.
Algunas noticias anteriores especularon que los implantes mamarios del violador convicto habían sido pagados por los contribuyentes y estimaron el coste en unos 10,000 dólares. Sin embargo, el Ministerio Penitenciario de Canadá contestó que esos gastos no estaban cubiertos por el Gobierno federal. Por lo tanto, se cree que la provincia de Columbia Británica financió directamente la cirugía.
A lo largo de los años, la Junta de Libertad Condicional de Canadá ha negado repetidamente las solicitudes de puesta en libertad de Laboucan.
En una revisión de libertad condicional realizada en diciembre de 2010, la junta concluyó que varios aspectos sugerían que seguía siendo una amenaza para el público, entre ellos su “identidad de género, comportamiento impulsivo, violencia y desviación sexual”, informó CTV.
Especialmente preocupante, según las autoridades, fue la confesión de Laboucan de haber asesinado a un niño pequeño. “Según su expediente penitenciario, en un arrebato de ira, empujó a su víctima a un estanque”, señalaron los miembros de la junta de libertad condicional.
“También se ha mutilado el pene, y afirma que quiere ser mujer”, dijo la junta. En 2010, había asistido a siete audiencias de libertad condicional, y en cada una de ellas se mencionó “su confusión de identidad de género”.
También se informó a la junta de libertad condicional de que Laboucan se prostituía con otros presos y consumía drogas. Se le encontró un cuchillo rudimentario hecho a mano y había amenazado con matar a una guardia.
Aunque no está claro exactamente cuándo Laboucan fue trasladado al centro correccional de mujeres, en abril de 2018 The Toronto Star informó sobre otra apelación de libertad condicional rechazada mientras se refería a él con pronombres femeninos, afirmando que el violador de niños “ahora se identifica como mujer”.
El año anterior, 2017, había pedido su liberación por “prejuicios” en su contra por parte de la junta, y parece que para entonces ya había sido trasladado a la Institución Fraser Valley para Mujeres. Laboucan había estado agrediendo a reclusas y, según los informes, “cogió a otra reclusa por el cabello, la arrojó al suelo y luego le pateó la cara”.
Su último recurso de libertad condicional fue denegada el año pasado en una sentencia del 20 de septiembre. Según los miembros de la junta de libertad condicional, la evaluación psiquiátrica más reciente de Laboucan determinó que presentaba un alto riesgo de reincidencia y, por lo tanto, se le consideraba un peligro potencial para la sociedad. La junta también destacó sus arrebatos emocionales, comportamiento irrespetuoso y su consumo de drogas como factores de riesgo que indicaban que sus acciones podrían agravarse si salía de la cárcel.
El caso de Laboucan será revisado de nuevo en octubre de 2024 aunque, si se niega su apelación, existe la posibilidad de que permanezca encarcelado con mujeres el resto de su vida, ya que décadas de evaluaciones psiquiátricas han afirmado que tiene un mal pronóstico para la rehabilitación completa.
Una sala común para madres y niños pequeños en el Anexo de la Institución Fraser Valley en Abbotsford, B.C. / Foto de JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fraser Valley Institution for Women cuenta con un anexo de mínima seguridad que alberga un programa para madres encarceladas y sus bebés. El Programa Materno-Infantil se lleva a cabo en una casa que consta de instalaciones como cocina, salón y baño compartidos, así como de varios dormitorios. Está situado dentro de un complejo de vivienda similares, muy parecido a un barrio.
A otras reclusas que no son madres se les puede permitir quedarse con la madre y el niño, e incluso pueden solicitar servir de niñeras o “tías”, aunque pueden estar sujetas a una evaluación de riesgos, reveló un informe del National Post.
La familia debe someterse a una evaluación por parte de un organismo de bienestar infantil antes de obtener la aprobación para que un niño resida en el recinto penitenciario. Si se concede el permiso, los niños pueden residir a tiempo completo con sus madres hasta su quinto cumpleaños y a tiempo parcial hasta su séptimo cumpleaños.
Una defensora de los derechos de las mujeres encarceladas mencionó directamente la situación de Laboucan en Fraser Valley en un informe de 2021 presentado a los miembros de la Cámara de los Comunes. En su intervención ante el Comité Permanente de Seguridad Pública y Seguridad Nacional, Heather Mason dijo a los miembros del gobierno federal de Canadá que varias mujeres habían denunciado haber sido víctimas de acoso sexual por parte de hombres que se dicen trans que estaban internados en instituciones femeninas.
“Una de estas mujeres denunció que, mientras estaba en el programa madre-hijo, dos personas transgénero con condenas por pedofilia, Madilyn Harks y Tara Desousa, merodeaban cerca de ella y de su hijo, haciendo comentarios sexistas, inapropiados y provocadores”, dijo Mason en su declaración.
Harks, cuyo nombre real es Matthew, es un pedófilo en serie que ha sido descrito como alguien “que no piensa en otra cosa más que en abusar sexualmente de niñas pequeñas”. Las autoridades creen que atacó al menos a 60 víctimas antes de ser acusado de aproximadamente 200 delitos relacionados con el abuso sexual.
En 2019, una reclusa presentó una denuncia de agresión sexual contra él, pero no se presentaron cargos. Ese mismo año, la ex comisionada adjunta para las mujeres, Kelly Blanchette, reveló que, de todas las solicitudes de hombres para su traslado a prisiones de mujeres, la mitad eran de delincuentes sexuales convictos.
Mason compartió con Reduxx las conversaciones que había tenido con mujeres recluidas en Fraser Valley. Una reclusa confirmó que Laboucan estaba alojado en una unidad al lado de la residencia del Programa Materno-Infantil, y dijo que había estado “mirando fijamente” a los niños para “provocar” a las mujeres.
Viviendas en el complejo de seguridad media de Fraser Valley Institution para mujeres. Fotografía: Heather Mason
La fuente anónima continuó describiendo un encuentro aterrador que había tenido con Laboucan. Explicó que había sido invitada a asistir a un evento de agradecimiento a los voluntarios y que había llevado a su hijo pequeño. Uno de los guardias le informó en secreto que Laboucan estaba en el acto y la puso al corriente de sus delitos contra un bebé de 3 meses.
“Me dijeron que había un delincuente sexual infantil extremadamente violento que no había estado en presencia de un niño pequeño en mucho tiempo”, dijo, y agregó que su propio hijo tenía aproximadamente la misma edad que la víctima de Laboucan.
“En cuanto me informaron de la naturaleza perversa y brutal del crimen contra el niño, me arrepentí incluso de haber ido o de haber dejado que esa persona viera a mi hijo”.
Laboucan, dice, fue alojado junto a las instalaciones de madre e hijo después de este incidente, y su comportamiento se agudizó.
“Estas acusaciones de merodear por el programa infantil acabaron en una disputa en la que este delincuente sexual trans agarró y arrojó a una reclusa al suelo para continuar con la agresión”, explicó la fuente. “Afortunadamente, los guardias pararon el ataque, pero segregaron a la reclusa por incitar una reacción por confrontar a este delincuente sexual trans por sus acciones”, le dijo a Mason.
Las mujeres indígenas constituyen casi la mitad de la población carcelaria femenina, según datos del Servicio Correccional de Canadá. En comparación con el ciudadano medio, las mujeres encarceladas tienen más probabilidades de haber sufrido abusos físicos o sexuales, y tienen una mayor incidencia de problemas de salud mental. Las mujeres delincuentes también tienen muchas menos probabilidades que los hombres de ser condenadas por delitos violentos.
Un informe publicado por el Servicio Correccional en 2022 reveló que el 82% de los presos “de género diverso” en Canadá con antecedentes de delitos sexuales eran hombres que se identificaban como transgénero. Casi todos habían cometido sus crímenes antes de declararse transgénero. La inmensa mayoría cometió delitos que causaron la muerte o daños graves a sus víctimas, más de la mitad de las cuales eran mujeres o niños.
En junio de 2017, la categoría de “identidad de género” se convirtió en una característica protegida tras su inclusión en la Ley de Derechos Humanos de Canadá a través de un polémico texto legislativo conocido como Proyecto de Ley C-16. El gobierno canadiense afirmó que se había evaluado el impacto del proyecto de ley en las mujeres antes de su aprobación, pero se ha negado a dar a conocer los resultados de la evaluación.
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An individual who self-identifies as “intersexual” and a “woman” has been arrested for his role in a January 31 bomb scare. Lily Mestemacher, 29, falsely claimed there was a bomb at a store in a community over 200 miles away from his location.
Police in Oxford, Mississippi first responded to the bomb threat on January 31, announcing through posts on social media that a bomb had been called in at a local Walmart. Officers and an Explosive K9 team were sent to search the area in question, turning up no evidence of explosives and deeming the area safe.
An investigation was launched and the threat was quickly traced back to 29-year-old Lily Mestemacher of Conway, Arkansas. An arrest warrant was issued for False Reporting of Placing Explosives, and Mestemacher was arrested in Conway. Mestemacher had reportedly made the threats over social media.
On February 10, Mestemacher was transported to Oxford and booked on the charges. He was seen in the Lafayette County Justice Court for initial hearing where the judge announced a $50,000 bond.
While some media outlets are reporting Mestemacher as a “woman,” or “trans woman,” others are simply avoiding labels altogether. Both the Daily Caller and a Mississippi news website refer to Mestemacher as a “bearded person” or “person.”
Some reporters appear to be unclear as to what Mestemacher’s sex is, with at least one ABC affiliate outlet labelling him an “intersex woman” following a statement from Oxford Police Department’s public information officer. ABC 15 went on to claim that those identifying Mestemacher as “transgender” were making false statements.
Reduxx reached out to the Oxford Police Department who advised us that Mestemacher self-identified as intersexual. They confirmed they do not have any evidence to suggest he genuinely has a disorder of sexual development. The Department could not provide any information on what sex Mestemacher was currently booked as.
While the motives for Mestemacher’s threat against Oxford are currently unknown, Reduxx has become aware of a 2021 podcast recorded by him titled “LivingthroughitwithLily.” The bizarre 30-minute audio features Mestemacher discussing various topics including religion, demons, and the time-space continuum.
Mestemacher as seen on his HubHopper profile.
In the audio, Mestemacher says he is “spiritually ascended.” He plays music for a large portion of the podcast and uses various accents and voices when speaking. He said he was using a “fake voice” in the beginning and then asked the audience if he should use his “real flamboyant voice,” even though it makes people “not wanna listen.” Throughout the half-hour, Mestemacher can be heard laughing in an eerie way.
At one point, he speaks over a dramatic instrumental and proclaims: “Okay, so here’s what I’ve learned. You are the one you seek… whatever you do, though, will come back to you…. You’ll have to address the selfishness because of what you did … Don’t hinder your growth or anyone else’s natural growth, and negativity from other people will not ever matter.”
In addition, Reduxx discovered several idle Instagram profiles appearing to belong to Mestemacher. One of them uses the handle @livingthroughitwithlilyonair, referring to his podcast’s name.
Another account, using the handle @nothingisembarrassing, features “she/her/hers” pronouns in a bio which reads: “It’s actually impossible to hate anyone. Everything is light and ego is dark. Underneath thought has light. It’s impossible to hate anyone at all.”
A third profile of Mestemacher’s uses the handle @lilyintersex and features another set of pronouns, “she/they/her/hers.”
Only one of the profiles belonging to Mestemacher features several posts, this one again declaring “she/they” pronouns.
Mestemacher used this account to show off a tattoo that says “pain,” and posted filtered videos of himself speaking in a high-toned voice and displaying erratic behavior coupled with the same eerie laugh heard in his 2021 podcast.
A screenshot of a post from one of Mestemacher’s Instagram profiles.
He also shared an edited photo of half his face spliced with a photo of a devil accompanied by a caption including “#antichrist” and “#revelation” among other religion-themed hashtags. No posts have been made on the account since 2021.
On social media, many took to slamming WCBI News, the local station which was first to report on Mestemacher’s arrest. The outlet stated that an “Arkansas woman” was facing charges, and failed to mention Mestemacher’s sex or gender identity.
While a man is accused of false reporting of placing explosives, media is false reporting that he is a woman. pic.twitter.com/CXm7M4HaOW
“This is the poster child of the entire movement of self ID. Who [in] their right mind would think that is a woman? Go back to the sideshow days of the bearded woman and they ensured everything else about her was feminine. This is a mockery and used to skew all crime statistics,” Twitter user Stuart Slesh said in response to Giggle founder Sall Grover’s tweet about the news.
“But how can you possibly tell? Have you checked ‘her’ genitals? I’ve been reliably told by the pronoun ppl of Twitter that the only way of knowing is by checking,” another user said jokingly.
Despite being reported as a “woman,” Mestemacher was initially booked as a male, according to a cached page on the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Department inmate roster. Mestemacher would have been in custody of the FCSO prior to his transfer to Mississippi on the bomb threat charges.
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The tragic death of a transgender teenager has prompted a wave of speculation from trans activists on social media, some of whom are placing the blame for the youth’s death on internationally-acclaimed author J.K. Rowling and women critical of gender ideology.
On February 11, 16-year-old Brianna Ghey was found stabbed on a pathway in Culcheth Linear Park in Cheshire, UK. While initially found alive, Ghey passed away at the scene. Police immediately launched a murder probe, and two teenage suspects were taken into custody — a boy and girl, both aged 15 and from the local area. The teens were charged in connected to the murder today.
While Detectives initially stated that there was “no evidence to suggest that the circumstances surrounding Brianna’s death were hate-related,” they have since walked back the remarks in wake of widespread backlash and assured the public that all lines of investigation are being pursued.
Though police have continued to caution members of the public against speculation, trans activists quickly took to print and social media to label the crime to be a result of “transphobia.”
The Independent published an article wherein transgender lawyer Robin Moira White called Ghey’s death a “tragedy waiting to happen,” and name-dropped multiple women’s rights campaigners who were unrelated to the murder.
“I cannot help but feel this kind of tragedy was waiting to happen,” White wrote. “Anyone who followed the Conservative leadership contest will have seen the candidates vying with each other to stoke “debate” over trans people’s lives; and such sentiment is something I, as Britain’s only trans discrimination barrister, have to cope with every day.”
White went on to lay blame on author Helen Joyce and Sex Matters Director Maya Forstater, who White describes as “anti-trans campaigners.”
On social media, trans activists took a more explicit approach, with some directly blaming Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling for Ghey’s death.
Alexandra Erin, a trans-identified male author, wrote on Twitter that “JK Rowling killed a girl” in a 15-tweet thread in which he suggested Rowling engaged in “eliminationist” rhetoric.
JK Rowling killed a girl. Her name was Brianna Ghey.
“J.K. Rowling is a billionaire with a huge personal fandom. She has a lot of influence. Her using her personal clout to spread anti-trans rhetoric encourages more anti-trans rhetoric, and both hers and the rhetoric amplified by her lowers the bar on violence as a solution,” Erin wrote, going on to claim that Rowling’s pro-woman stances were “demonizing the people — with a lot of focus on women — whose existence she opposes, whose existence challenges her sense of identity and order in the world.”
Perplexingly, Erin goes on to claim that he never “literally” claimed that Rowling murdered Ghey, in contradiction of his very first tweet in the thread. He then sarcastically remarks: “Just like [Rowling] never literally said that Jewish people are magical goblin bankers or that gay men are magical child predators with magical AIDS, except one tragically good one, also with magical AIDS.”
Other activists on social media more broadly blamed anyone who was playing the newly-released Harry Potter-based video game Hogwarts Legacy. Wracking up over 600 likes, one user claiming those playing the title were “funding JK Rowling to incite hatred against trans women — resulting in the vicious murder of a 16-year-old girl.”
If you're playing #HogwartsLegacy – this is what you're funding.
You're funding JKRowling to incite hatred agrainst trans women – resulting in the vicious murder of a 16 year old girl.
Candlelit vigils were held for Ghey today across the United Kingdom, with some demonstrators holding posters and signs in memory of the teen. But some on social media have reported seeing flyers plastered to lamp posts stating that Ghey was “murdered for being trans in public,” and placing the blame for the youth’s death on JK Rowling and “TERFs.”
TERF is an acronym standing for “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” but is often applied to anyone who accepts there are biological differences between males and females.
This is not the first time trans activists have blamed the death of a transgender individual on those critical of gender ideology despite the evidence otherwise.
In August of last year, a 25-year-old female was murdered at a Pride Parade in Germany while intervening in a lesbophobic attack.
The victim, who had been identified only as “Malte C.” by the German press, witnessed a man verbally abusing two lesbian women and calling them “lesbian whores.” When Malte intervened to defend the women, the suspect punched her in the face several times, causing her to fall back. Malte was rushed to hospital and was placed in a medically-induced coma, but tragically passed away on September 2.
The suspect was later identified as a Chechen boxer who was illegally in Germany after his refugee claim was denied. Notably, some stated the man is alleged to be a homosexual himself.
Despite a suspect being in custody, trans activists on social media were quick to blame “transphobic feminists” for the killing.
Following the announcement of Malte’s passing, Frank Laubenburg, head of LGBT publication Die Linke.queer appeared to blame four women for the murder — biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, feminist Alice Schwarzer and politicians Alice Weidel and Sahra Wagenknecht.
Vollbrecht, Schwarzer, Weidel, Wagenknecht: Sprachlicher Hass ermutigt Täter wie den, der Malte in Münster totgeschlagen hat. Das müssen wir noch viel deutlicher sagen. Und das muss auch Konsequenzen haben. Wir sind es Malte schuldig.
All of the women are known for their views on gender ideology and understanding of biological sex differences.
While trans activists often claim the existence of a “trans genocide,” some on social media have pointed out that Ghey’s killing was the first recorded of a transgender person in the United Kingdom in years, the last being Amy Griffiths in 2019. Griffiths was murdered by a male romantic partner.
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Serenity Alana Mann. Crédito de la foto: Departamento Penitenciario de Montana
Un hombre que se identifica como “mujer transgénero” ha sido condenado a cinco años de libertad condicional tras ser declarado culpable de maltratar brutalmente a su novia, discapacitada física y mentalmente.
Serenity Alana Mann, de 34 años, compareció la semana pasada ante un tribunal de Montana para su sentencia en relación con un caso de violencia doméstica contra su ex pareja. Mann había intentado estrangular repetidamente a la mujer, que era especialmente vulnerable por tener una discapacidad física y una lesión cerebral traumática, y amenazó con hacerle daño si acudía a la policía.
Serenity Alana Mann
En la vista de sentencia, la víctima leyó una declaración en la que suplicaba al tribunal que no permitiera que Mann le hiciera daño.
Refiriéndose a Mann con pronombres femeninos, la víctima dijo: “Todo lo que pido es que por favor me protejan y no dejen que Serenity cumpla su palabra de hacerme daño o incluso matarme”.
Al parecer, la víctima inició una relación con Mann antes de su transición de género.
La policía se enteró por primera vez del comportamiento abusivo de Mann hacia su pareja en noviembre de 2021. Los agentes fueron llamados a la propiedad por un asalto no relacionado con el caso, y se dieron cuenta de la prolongada relación abusiva entre Mann y la víctima. La policía habló con la víctima al día siguiente, que contó que Mann la había derribado y la había sometido a una llave de estrangulamiento que casi le hizo perder el conocimiento.
Durante el juicio, la fiscalía señaló que Mann no había expresado ningún remordimiento por sus actos. Los medios de comunicación locales informan que su principal defensa parecía ser que había intentado estrangular a la víctima en una fecha diferente a la declarada.
Aunque la fiscalía pidió pena de prisión en una cárcel estatal para Mann, señalando que el estrangulamiento era una “práctica para el homicidio”, finalmente se le impuso una condena condicional. A lo largo de cinco años, Mann solo pasará una semana consecutiva en la cárcel cada año, lo que equivale a 35 días en total. Mann también servirá 200 horas de servicio comunitario durante ese período.
Según el Independent Record, Mann será inscrito en el registro de delincuentes violentos y tendrá que alertar a su agente de libertad condicional de cualquier futura pareja sentimental, así como avisar a las futuras parejas de su situación de libertad condicional. Se le ha prohibido cualquier contacto directo o indirecto con la víctima.
Mann, que mide 1,83 m y pesa 150 kg (6 pies y 330 libras), figura actualmente como “mujer” en el directorio del Departamento de Correcciones de Montana.
Perfil de Serenity Mann en la página web del Departamento de Correcciones de Montana.
Actualmente no está claro si los 35 días de prisión que cumplirá a lo largo de cinco años serán en una cárcel de mujeres o de hombres. Reduxx se ha puesto en contacto con el Departamento de Correcciones de Montana para obtener más detalles, pero no ha recibido una respuesta a tiempo para la publicación de este artículo.
Esta no es la primera vez que Mann se encuentra bajo custodia tras cometer un acto de violencia contra una mujer.
En 2020, Mann fue acusado de delito grave de agresión con arma tras un ataque de furia al volante en el que blandió una palanca contra una conductora durante una disputa de tráfico.
Al parecer, el incidente, que tuvo lugar en abril, se debió a que la otra conductora le cortó el paso cuando ambos salían de un aparcamiento. Los dos vehículos se detuvieron para que los conductores pudieran dialogar sobre lo ocurrido, pero Mann acabó sacando una palanca de su coche y amenazando a gritos con asesinar a la conductora del otro vehículo.
Mann le dijo a los agentes en aquel momento que tenía un problema con su “ira” y con el control de sus impulsos violentos.
Por el incidente de 2020, Mann recibió una condena aplazada de dos años por peligro criminal. La sentencia terminó en septiembre de 2021, apenas dos meses antes de que Mann fuera acusado de intentar estrangular a su pareja.
En la cobertura mediática de los pasados y recientes encontronazos de Mann con la policía, se referían a él como “mujer”.
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Content Notice: This article contains graphic descriptions of child abuse and physical injury some readers may find distressing.
A Canadian man who was convicted of the horrific rape of a 3-month-old infant boy has begun identifying as transgender while incarcerated and is currently being held in a women’s correctional facility with a mother and child unit.
In 1997, Adam Laboucan sexually assaulted a three-month-old baby boy in Quesnel, British Columbia. Laboucan was 15-years-old at the time and had been hired to babysit the child. The infant was so brutally injured by the attack that he had to be flown to Vancouver, 410 miles away, to undergo reconstructive surgery.
After committing the horrific assault, Laboucan “mutilated himself and ate his own flesh,” according to news reports.
During the trial, an expert witness stated that Laboucan displayed “everything from transsexual to pedophilic tendencies.” A forensic psychiatrist who examined Laboucan testified that even he believed himself to be a danger to the public. “He said he was not planning a life of crime, but he felt he had no way to control the flood of violent, murderous fantasies,” Dr. Ian Postnikoff told the B.C. Supreme Court.
Adam Laboucan / Tara Desousa, pictured being escorted outside court in B.C. on June 18, 1999. (Ross Mitchell/Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
Postnikoff further detailed how he met with Laboucan several times at the Youth Containment Centre in Prince George after the teen was convicted in 1997 on the sexual assault charges. While in custody, Laboucan chewed on his wrists, resulting in serious self-mutilation.
“While in custody, he would turn them against himself, but this high level of self-mutilation, almost self cannibalization, could be turned against other, weaker individuals, with possibly fatal consequences,” Postnikoff added.
“He said that biting himself tended to ease the anger and frustration,” Postnikoff said during court proceedings. “In one instance, he chewed on his arm for 30 minutes, ingesting fat and muscle tissue.”
The forensic psychiatrist said that he believed intensive treatment would be necessary. “With the history and severity of the offenses of Mr. Laboucan, it’s difficult to say how long his treatment would last,” he said. “He’s not a regular sexual offender. I would say it would be a very long time, possibly years. I would be very, very concerned to hear that Laboucan would be released into the community in the near future.”
According to a 1999 news report by the CBC, clinical psychologist Dr. Steve Sigmond testified in court that when he examined Laboucan in 1997, the teen had also admitted to drowning a 3-year-old boy in Quesnel in 1993. Laboucan was 11 when he allegedly committed the killing, and no charges were ever lodged against him because under the law, an accused must be at least 12 years old.
The child’s mother, Delores Deutsch, told the court that she wanted Laboucan to remain in prison for the rest of his life. “They thought it was an accident, but inside I knew it wasn’t. I don’t know. I guess a mother just knows, inside that feeling,” she said.
As the court considered his case, Sigmond testified that Laboucan had described having sexual fantasies about children under the age of three and that he had a history of sexually aggressive behavior at school.
Due to the horrific nature of the crime, Laboucan was handed a rare indeterminate prison sentence in 1999 at the age of 17, and was declared the nation’s youngest criminally violent sex offender.
Adam Laboucan, also known as Tara Desousa. Source: Canadian Inmates Connect
But despite the violent and sexual nature of his crimes, Laboucan is now identifying as a “woman” and has been transferred to the Fraser Valley Institution for Women in Abbotsford.
While it is unknown when Laboucan officially began transitioning, a recently surfaced dating profile from 2018 shows the convict boasting of his “vagina” and breast implants.
“I am a transgender woman and I was born a man but now after surgery I became a full woman,” Laboucan wrote on his Canadian Inmates Connect profile. “I have a vagina, not a penis, and also have 720ccs DD gel implants.”
Some past news reports speculated that the convicted rapist’s breast implants were paid for by taxpayers and estimated the cost at approximately $10,000. However, Corrections Canada responded to the inquiry by stating that such expenses were not covered by the federal government. It is therefore believed that the province of British Columbia directly funded the surgery.
The Parole Board of Canada has repeatedly denied Laboucan’s requests for release over the years.
In a December 2010 parole review, the board concluded that a number of aspects suggested he remained a threat to the public, including his “gender identity, impulsive behaviour, violence and sexual deviance,” CTV reported.
Of particular concern, officials said, was Laboucan’s past confession to murdering a young child. “According to your correctional file, while in a fit of anger, you pushed your victim into a pond,” parole board members noted.
“Mutilation of your penis has also occurred, with you claiming [you] want to be female,” the board said. By 2010, he had attended seven parole hearings, and “his gender-identity confusion” was mentioned at each meeting.
The parole board was also told how Laboucan had been prostituting himself to other prisoners and using drugs. He was found with a rudimentary hand-made knife and had been threatening to kill a female guard.
Although it is unclear exactly when Laboucan was transferred to the women’s correctional facility, in April of 2018 The Toronto Star reported on another rejected parole appeal while referring to him with feminine pronouns, stating that the child rapist “now identifies as female.”
The year prior, 2017, he had appealed for release on the grounds of “bias” against him on the part of the board, and it would appear that by this time he had already been transferred to the Fraser Valley Institution for Women. Laboucan had been assaulting female inmates, and according to reports, “flung another inmate by her hair, then kicked her in the face.”
His latest parole appeal was denied last year in a September 20 ruling. According to members of the parole board, Laboucan’s most recent psychiatric assessment determined he was at a high risk of re-offending and was therefore deemed a potential danger to society. The board also highlighted his emotional outbursts, disrespectful behavior and drug use as risk factors that indicated his actions could escalate if released from prison.
Laboucan’s case will be up for review once again in October of 2024, though if his appeal is denied, there is a possibility he will remain incarcerated with women inmates for the rest of his life as decades of psychiatric evaluations have asserted that he has a poor prognosis for complete rehabilitation.
A common room for mothers and young children in the Annex of the Fraser Valley Institution in Abbotsford, B.C. / Photo by JONATHAN HAYWARD /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fraser Valley Institution for Women features a minimum-security annex that hosts a program for incarcerated mothers and their babies. The Mother-Child Program takes place in a house comprised of facilities such as a shared kitchen, lounge and bathroom, as well as multiple bedrooms. It is situated within a compound of similar housing units, much like a neighborhood.
Other inmates who are not mothers themselves may be permitted to stay with the mother and child can even apply to serve as babysitters or “aunties”, though they may be subject to a risk assessment, a National Post report revealed.
The family must undergo an assessment by a child-welfare agency prior to gaining approval to have a child reside on prison grounds. If permission is granted, children can reside full-time with their mothers up to their fifth birthday and part-time up to their seventh birthday.
An advocate for the rights of incarcerated women made direct mention of Laboucan’s situation at Fraser Valley in a 2021 brief to members of the House of Commons. Addressing the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Heather Mason told members of Canada’s federal government that multiple women had reported being the victim of sexual harassment by trans-identified males who had been placed in female institutions.
“One of these women reported that while in the mother-child program, two transgender individuals with convictions for pedophilia, Madilyn Harks and Tara Desousa, would loiter near her and her child, making sexist and inappropriate antagonizing comments,” Mason said in her statement.
Harks, whose given name is Matthew, is a serial pedophile who has been described as having “all-encompassing preoccupation in sexually abusing young girls.” Authorities believe he targeted at least 60 victims before being charged for approximately 200 offenses related to sexual abuse.
In 2019, a sexual assault report was filed against him by a female inmate, but no charges were pursued. That same year, the former Deputy Commissioner for Women, Kelly Blanchette, revealed that of all the requests from men to transfer into women’s prisons, half were from convicted sex offenders.
Mason shared with Reduxx exchanges she’d had with women being held in Fraser Valley. One inmate confirmed that Laboucan was being housed in a unit next to the Mother-Child Program residence, and said that he had been “staring” at the children to “antagonize” the women.
Housing units at the medium-security compound at Fraser Valley Institution for women. Photo: Heather Mason
The anonymous source continued to describe a frightening interaction she’d had with Laboucan. She explained that she’d been invited to attend a volunteer appreciation event, and had brought her infant son with her. One of the guards secretly informed her that Laboucan was at the event and made her aware of his crimes against a 3-month-old baby boy.
“I was told that there was an extremely violent child sex offender present who hadn’t been in the presence of a young child in a very long time,” she said, adding that her own child was around the same age as Laboucan’s infant victim.
“Once I was informed of the sick and brutal nature of the crime against the child, I regretted even going or letting that person set eyes on my child.”
Laboucan, she says, was housed next to the Mother-Child facility after this incident, at which point his behavior escalated.
“These accusations of looming around the child program resulted in a dispute in which this trans sex offender picked up and threw a female inmate and charged after her once she was on the ground to continue the assault,” the source explained. “Luckily, guards intercepted, but they segregated the female inmate for inciting a reaction for confronting this trans inmate sex offender for his actions,” she told Mason.
Indigenous women make up nearly half the female prison population, according to data from Canada’s Correctional Service. Compared to the average citizen, incarcerated women are more likely to have a history of physical or sexual abuse, and have a higher incidence of mental health issues. Female offenders are also far less likely than men to be convicted for violent crimes.
A report released by the Correctional Service in 2022 revealed that 82% of “gender diverse” prisoners in Canada who had a history of sexual offending were men who identified as transgender. Almost all had committed their crimes prior to claiming a transgender status. The overwhelming majority committed offenses that caused death or serious harm to their victims, over half of whom were women or children.
In June of 2017, the category of “gender identity” was made a protected characteristic after it was added to the Canadian Human Rights Act via a controversial piece of legislation known as Bill C-16. The Canadian government claimed the bill had been assessed for its impact on women prior to approval, but has refused to release any details of the assessment’s findings.
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Una madre australiana ha expresado su preocupación por un hombre adulto al que se le había dado acceso al evento de las Guías al que había ido su hija, aparentemente debido a su identidad de género.
Cada año, las Girls Scouts de Australia celebran una reunión de Guías que se vende a los padres australianos como una aventura de una semana de duración de empoderamiento femenino para sus hijas. Este año, más de 1.000 jóvenes australianas de entre 10 y 17 años asistieron al evento en Ballarat, Victoria. Para muchas, esta era la primera vez que estaban lejos de casa y de sus familias.
Aunque la mayoría de los padres daban por sentado que el personal en contacto más estrecho con sus hijas sería femenino, una madre australiana se horrorizó al recibir un mensaje de texto de su hija diciéndole que había un hombre presente.
En declaraciones a Reduxx, la madre de Queensland, Sadie*, dice que había dejado a su hija de 14 años ir con sus amigas Guidistas a la reunión, pero poco después recibió un mensaje de texto de la niña informándole que había un hombre “fingiendo ser una mujer, vistiendo una camisa de Guía”.
Sadie dijo que se puso inmediatamente en contacto con la líder del campamento y con la segunda responsable con la información que su hija le había proporcionado. Después de una breve investigación, le dijeron a Sadie que el hombre “formaba parte del grupo de Scouts que ayudaba a organizar el evento, pero que no se quedaba allí”. En un principio se le dijo a Sadie que el hombre podría haber “cogido prestada” la camiseta.
Sadie dice que había entendido que el procedimiento habitual para los hombres en los campamentos de las Guías era que estuvieran acompañados en todo momento por una Líder Guía. Pero, vistos los mensajes que su hija le mandaba, Sadie se dio cuenta enseguida de que el hombre estaba participando en actividades directamente con las niñas.
Fotos tomadas por la hija de Sadie durante la reunión de Muchachas Guías.
Sadie explica que le llegaron mensajes y fotos de su hija donde se podía ver al hombre en falda actuando en el escenario con el grupo de guías anfitriones locales, mezclándose con las niñas y pareciendo actuar en calidad de supervisor.
“Si hubiera podido subirme al coche y traérmela a casa, lo hubiera hecho … pero esta era la primera vez que viajaba fuera del estado sin mí, incluso tenía miedo de decírselo a otros padres porque no quería que se sintieran tan angustiados e indefensos como yo. A los padres se les debería haber dicho que iba a participar un hombre como guía en la reunión de Girl Scouts”.
Sadie se puso de nuevo en contacto con las líderes del campamento, que la contestaron que “hablarían” con su hija, algo que Sadie les dijo que no hicieran, porque no quería que su hija fuera señalada o castigada, cuenta a Reduxx, y le preocupaba que el personal adulto le hiciera “luz de gas” insistiendo en que el hombre era en realidad una mujer.
Al regresar a casa, Sadie dice que su hija le dijo: “Todas vimos que era un hombre, tenía vello en la cara, pero nadie se atrevió a decir nada”.
El Marco de Seguridad Infantil de las Guías de Australia hace hincapié en que se trata de un “entorno inclusivo, deapoyo, seguro y agradable solo para niñas”, pero otras políticas articulan que “niñas” pueden incluir a cualquiera que se identifique como tal.
De acuerdo con las Directrices para la Diversidad y la Inclusión de la organización: “La afiliación a GGA y SGGO está limitada a niñas y mujeres. Bajo los términos de esta política, “niñas y mujeres” incluye a las personas que se identifican y viven sus vidas como mujeres. A los efectos de la afiliación al Guidismo Australiano, el género no femenino es una base legalmente permitida para negar la afiliación”.
Sobre la base de estas directrices, las Guías de Australia están abiertas a cualquier persona, hombre o mujer, que exprese una identidad de género “femenina”. Irónicamente, a cualquier mujer que no tenga una identidad de género “femenina”, como aquellas que se identifican como “no binarias” o “trans”, no se le permite la afiliación a las Guías.
Las directrices establecen además que la organización no discriminará a ningún miembro por motivos de sexo o identidad de género.
Sadie cree que se deben revisar las políticas urgentemente para garantizar la protección de las jóvenes que participan en las actividades de las Guías.
“La política de inclusión del Guidismo… no refleja las expectativas de la comunidad. Debe ser reevaluada por voces sensatas que consideren que la prioridad es la protección de nuestras hijas, no la inclusión de hombres y niños para que puedan deambular sin supervisión entre ellas”, dice la madre.
Sadie ha dicho a Reduxx que ha denunciado oficialmente la presencia de un hombre en el evento a las Líderes Guía de su hija. Por el momento, dijo que siente que sus “preocupaciones han sido tomadas en serio”. Si la respuesta se considera insatisfactoria, Sadie puede llevar sus preocupaciones a niveles superiores de la organización.
Girl Guides Australia no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios sobre sus políticas.
Si bien la identidad del hombre transgénero que supervisaba a las jóvenes en el festival es actualmente desconocida, esta no es la primera vez que surgen preocupaciones sobre el cambio global en la “inclusión” entre las organizaciones de Guías.
El año pasado, se desató un escándalo en el Reino Unido después de que un hombre transidentificado con un historial inquietante en las redes sociales se convirtiera en el comisario principal de la división Southwell de Girlguiding, la franquicia nacional de las Girl Guides.
Monica Sulley, un hombre que se identifica como mujer, se convirtió en “la comisaria” principal de la división de Southwell de Girlguiding en julio de 2021, pero atrajo la atención de las redes sociales ese mismo año después de que salieran a la luz publicaciones preocupantes. Sulley había publicado en varias plataformas fotos suyas posando con armas, vestido con ropa de bondage y refiriéndose a sí mismo como “Ama”.
Algunos miembros del público que intentaron ponerse en contacto con Girlguiding para presentar quejas sobre Sulley fueron contactados más tarde por la policía y amenazados con ser arrestados.
*Se ha cambiado el nombre de la madre entrevistada para proteger la identidad de su hija.
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