A woman at the Central California Women’s Facility said she witnessed the aftermath of a prison rape by a transgender inmate.
According to evidence in the filing, Mimi Lee has submitted an affidavit to the Women’s Liberation Front’s attorneys that will be included in the Women’s Liberation Front’s lawsuit against the state of California. obtained By Reduxx.
According to reports, Lee said she was one of many inmates at the women’s prison who witnessed an alleged “sexual assault” by a man who identified himself as a woman.
On May 19, a female inmate was taken to the medical administration building after another female inmate reported being raped by a staff member, Lee said, adding that the woman felt “almost unconscious.”
Less than an hour later, the female victim was taken away on a stretcher under a “Code 3” alert. This means the person is unresponsive and cannot be revived by immediate means, Lee added.
Lee and other inmates reportedly identified the alleged assailant as Jonathan Robertson, a biologically male transgender man by the name of Siya Skylit.
Multiple inmates said they heard Robertson yelling, “Fuck you son of a bitch.” I’ll rape you. Rape your mom. I’m going to fuck all you bitches – there’s nothing you bitches can do. The women said he also spat on his fellow inmates.
“This has been very exciting and sad for everyone,” Lee reportedly wrote in the declaration. She said: “It’s scary to be threatened by a man for something you can do, can do, and may have already done to other women.”
“They were concerned and discussed how to protect themselves. I convinced them to go to their quarters and I asked the captain for an update to know how to proceed,” Lee said. added.
Ms Lee said she then went to correctional staff to ask what to do about Mr Robertson’s threatening behavior, at which point she learned he had “already been released to the yard”.
However, “once the captain learned of the rape threat, he decided to move in with the sergeant.” [him] Inmates “oppose administrative segregation,” he said, adding that “previously the warden dismissed inmate-to-inmate intimidation saying it was not a sufficient crime.”
Lee went on to say that two days later she was told that she and several other inmates had been placed on “secret,” referring to a list of inmates considered to be in immediate danger to their safety.
Lee said in a statement that the man was “transferred to a women’s prison because the prison cannot protect him from rape by other men in a men’s prison, but the prison now protects him.” [them] by getting [them] just to get him out of men’s prison [them] Terrorizing women with threats of rape and violence. ”
Shockingly, Robertson was immediately transferred to the California Women’s Facility, a low-security women’s correctional facility, days after making the rape threat, Reduxx reported.
“We are deeply saddened and shaken by reports of rape at CCWF and the actions of prison administrators who clearly failed in their duty to protect female prisoners,” said Marli Irvin, executive director of the Women’s Liberation Front. ” he told Reduxx.
“As the months pass, more and more sexual assaults are reported in prisons across the country. Predatory male inmates target vulnerable women, and their fears are ignored by prison officials. Irvine added.
According to the Bureau of Prisons, nearly 50 percent of male inmates who identify as female have been convicted of a sex crime, compared to just 11 percent of biological males who do not identify as female. It’s nothing more than that.
Meanwhile, some incarcerated men wish to be transferred to a women’s prison in California. 33.8% According to the Bureau of Prisons, one-third of them are registered sex offenders, and sex offender inmates account for up to 50 percent of rapes in prisons.
“How many more rapes will these women have to endure before prison administrators and state legislators are held accountable for their abject failure to protect female inmates from predatory men?” Irvin said. Asked.
Notably, Robertson enjoyed being the talk of transgender activists. campaign They are trying to move him from the men’s facility to the women’s facility where he currently resides. 2021, LGBTQ news site Pink News promulgated Petition for Robertson’s release from prison.
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