A transgender-identified, male-born victim California Criminal The man accused of raping fellow inmates at a California women’s prison will be forced to police his use of conscience while recounting the alleged assaults on the stand, according to a recent court order.
Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, identifies as a woman, and must be referred to using her pronoun in court after a Madeira County Court judge ruled. ABC30 reported..
Carroll faces two counts of forcible rape and one count of “preventing a witness from testifying.”
“After her first cellmate got pregnant and was transferred. [a male-only facility in] Los Angeles, two of his other cellmates complained that he had molested them, so we filed rape charges against the inmate,” Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno told ABC. Told on the 30th.
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Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, a violent felon incarcerated in California, was charged with rape in Madera County. Carol, a transgender man, was housed in a women’s correctional facility by petition and transferred to a men’s facility after being accused of rape. (CDCR)
Moreno believes Carroll abused California law SB 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, which allows transgender inmates to be housed in a facility consistent with their gender identity, not every facility. On a case by case basis.
“This is someone who is not a woman in any sense of the word,” Moreno told ABC30.
“There’s no psychiatric evaluation that’s required,” Moreno said of the 2021 bill. No need. [have] A psychological assessment of gender confusion, simply stated.”
A recent ruling on Carroll’s conscience affects Moreno’s qualifications. prosecutehe said.
“It’s a particular issue in this case because it confused the jury. In California, rape is a crime that the man has to commit,” Moreno said.
Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla on December 5, 2008. (Thomas O’Valle/Fresno Bee File/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Eric Dutemple told the outlet that the decision was unfair to Carroll’s victims.
“It’s absolutely insane that a victim would have to get on the stand and police the use of his conscience while trying to recount one of the scariest moments of his life.”
“It’s absolutely insane that a victim would have to get on the stand and police her use of conscience while trying to recount one of the scariest times of her life.”
CDCR wrote in a statement that it is unable to comment on pending litigation against detainees.
“CDCR reviews each application transferred under Senate Bill 132 to determine whether the action, based on the factors of the individual case, would raise a safety and administrative concern. Our In all institutions, CDCR thoroughly investigates all allegations of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, and sexual harassment in accordance with our zero-tolerance policy and as mandated by the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. Gone,” ABC Read the statement to 7.
Ami Ichikawathe founder and executive director of Women II Women and a former inmate who has followed Carroll’s case closely, previously told Fox News Digital that Carroll would not be recognized as any kind of LGBTQ+ person until SB 132 passed. There is no date to identify.
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Amie Ichikiwa spoke to Fox News Digital about her experience with a transgender inmate while in a California facility. (Free Women’s Forum)
“This is someone I’ve kept a close eye on because of his history, his background, his habitual manipulation, frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, constant complaints filed against everyone. I know. It was going to be a problem.” Ichikawa said.
“The committee that’s reviewing these transfer applications can’t use someone’s criminal history, physical attributes, sexual orientation, anything like that,” he continued. “Anything that you would think would be a factor that should be considered before someone is transferred to a women’s prison is not allowed and is considered discriminatory.”
Among several complaints reported by Reduxx, Carroll uses pronouns to refer to himself and did not mention gender identity or sexuality until 2021, after the passage of SB 132 by the Democrat-controlled California Legislature. Three months later.
Court records say so. Carroll’s criminal history Beginning in 1988 at age 15 with charges of grand theft of property and possession of a firearm by a minor.
State Sen. Scott Weiner, a Democrat, greets the crowd during the 53rd annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration on June 25, 2023. Weiner sponsored SB 132, which would allow transgender inmates to be housed in their preferred male or female facility. (Getty Images)
In 1990, Carroll was charged as an adult with three counts of kidnapping for ransom, two counts of robbery, and three counts of “forcible oral intercourse at a concert,” according to records. However, some counts were dismissed on technical grounds and the case ended with a hung jury and prosecution. Instead of being tried again, Carroll pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison.
Carroll’s third strike under California’s three-strikes law occurred in 1998 when he was the getaway driver during a jewelry store robbery, resulting in him being sentenced to 25 to life in prison as a three-strikes offender. While awaiting trial in 1999, sheriff’s deputies, acting on a tip from a confidential informant, found him in possession of a metal wire shank. He was given an additional four years to run consecutively with his 25-to-life term.
In prison, Carroll committed various serious violations of the law between 2001 and 2015. His crimes included fighting with other inmates, refusing to obey orders, drug possession, filing a false report against a peace officer and “behavior likely to lead to violence.” Court records She also filed various complaints alleging racial discrimination and sexual misconduct by CDCR employees.
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“Tremaine has a long history of filing lawsuits against the department, many lawsuits. He is constantly writing inmate complaints about anyone and everyone he can negatively impact,” Ichikawa said. said
In a 2022 election ad for the San Francisco Bayview, a “national black newspaper,” Carroll then claimed she was discriminated against and sexually harassed by CDCR employees.
The following year, Carroll was interviewed by Mind Sight News for an article describing her as “an incarcerated transgender woman in several prison cases”. Carroll told the interviewer that she “never felt the need” to identify with anything outwardly or to “wear lipstick or tight clothes or try to change her voice” because doing so “I’ll be put in a box.”
Fox News Digital’s Christopher Pandolfo and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.