A trans-identified male convicted of sexually assaulting his own 5-year-old daughter is currently being held in a women’s prison in Australia. Autumn Tulip Harper, who was anonymized in court records as “Hilary Maloney,” was sentenced to 4 years in prison for creating horrific child sexual abuse material of his own child and distributing it to a pedophile lover.
Harper, 25, was first identified as a suspect in the production of vile child sexual abuse content after an American pedophile he had been communicating with was arrested in September of 2023. A forensic examination of the pedophile’s devices found that Harper had sent him pornographic images and videos of a young girl via Discord. After identifying Harper as the owner of the account the content had originated from, police in the United States notified Australian authorities.
Shortly after, police raided Harper’s home in Clayton South, Victoria, and seized his electronic devices. An examination of his cellphone found he had produced 77 files categorized as child abuse material between May and June of 2023. The female child in the materials was identified as Harper’s own 5-year-old daughter.
Reduxx has chosen to withhold Harper’s birth name in order to protect the identity of his young victim.
Shortly after Harper pleaded guilty, an unknown individual vandalized his Facebook profile, changing the banner to read “I’m a pedo” and providing updates on Harper’s case through his account. The posts and account were deleted shortly before the sentence was delivered.
According to sentencing records, Harper had been in an online BDSM relationship with the American pedophile, who encouraged him to sexually abuse his daughter for his own sexual gratification.
Harper sent the other man a range of images of his daughter, including of her naked, in the shower, and of him sexually posing with her. The court also details there were several videos of Harper kissing the child’s labia, naked buttocks, and licking her anal region. In one of these videos, Harper is heard asking the girl if she “likes it” to which the child clearly responds “no.”
From an analysis of the video and photo evidence, police determined that Harper had directly sexually abused the girl on at least 19 separate occasions in the course of just one month. The sexual abuse media was then sent to the American pedophile, who Harper referred to as his “Master.” The man would then heap praise upon Harper, telling him how “impressed” and aroused he was by him, and calling him a “good girl.”
Despite being arrested for the serious crime in September of 2023, Harper was released on bail and was allowed to remain free throughout the duration of the trial. Harper was also afforded anonymity in court records, with his name being changed to “Hilary Maloney” throughout the proceedings.
During the trial, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Rajan Darjee was called upon to interview Harper and create a profile of his offending. Disturbingly, Darjee framed Harper as though he were a “female” who had been “pressured” by a male into committing the offenses.
Darjee told the court that Harper would not need any “specific interventions to prevent further sexual offending” and dismissed the need for sex offender treatment. He also denied that Harper had a paraphilic disorder, and argued that Harper had no sexual attraction to children.
Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis similarly highlighted Harper’s “gender dysphoria” and experiences with “transphobia” as mitigating factors, and appeared to accept the defense’s argument that he only committed the abuse to be “validated … as a woman and a sexual person.”
Both Harper’s arrest and trial were completed in relative silence, with no police releases or domestic media indicating the incident had occurred. Reduxx was first to cover Harper’s case after a source close to the court came forward to provide information on Harper and his charges.
Now, Reduxx has learned that Harper has been housed in a women’s facility in Victoria on the basis of his self-declared “gender identity.”
Harper is being held at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre, which has previously attracted controversy for housing transgender sex offenders amongst the female inmates.
In 2022, women at the prison told the Herald Sun that the transgender male offender was moved to the Murray Protection Unit on July 5. While the identity of the transferred inmate was not released, the details from the criminal’s background mirror those of Lisa Jones, a trans-identified male who had been sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in 2021.
Jones, aged 44 at the time, had stalked a woman as she was walking home on Lennox Street in Richmond before grabbing her and attempting to rape her. While pinning her down, Jones repeated: “Why won’t you lay down and have sex with me?”
The woman had been on a phone call with her mother at the time, and began screaming her location into the receiver before Jones snatched the phone away and disconnected the call.
Jones put his hands down the woman’s underwear and tried to pull down the victim’s jeans, but she was able to successfully fight him off as bystanders came rushing to her aid. Jones was ultimately detained after some bystanders chased him down as he tried to flee the scene.
“I didn’t do anything, it was her fault,” Jones, whose birth name is presently unknown, was reported to have said.
Despite the sentencing judge noting that the attack had been “brazen and opportunistic” against a complete stranger, Jones was placed in a facility with women.
While each state in Australia has different policies with respect to housing transgender inmates, according to Women’s Forum, New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania “have a ‘self-identification policy’, meaning that prisoners are meant to be placed in a facility based on how they identify, unless there are safety concerns or doubts around the authenticity of the prisoner’s gender identification.”
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