Child molester awarded $2.5 million in attorney's fees after Idaho DOC delayed transgender surgery
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Child molester awarded $2.5 million in attorney's fees after Idaho DOC delayed transgender surgery



A former inmate in the Idaho Department of Corrections has been awarded millions in attorney's fees after the state did not immediately agree to pay for transgender surgery.

Back in 2011, Adree Edmo, formerly known as Mason Dean Edmo, molested a 15-year-old boy while the boy was asleep. Edmo pled guilty to sexually abusing a minor under the age of 16 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Within the next few years, Edmo began to struggle with gender identity. By 2017, Edmo had sued the state for violating Edmo's Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment because the state had not paid for transgender surgery. In 2018, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled in favor of Edmo and ruled that the state DOC must provide Edmo with the "gender confirmation" surgery, which she deemed "medically necessary."

However, the surgery was delayed yet another two years because the state opted to appeal the ruling rather than provide the surgery. Eventually, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld nearly the entire ruling, and Edmo received the surgery in 2020, making Edmo just the second U.S. inmate in history to receive the surgery while still incarcerated. Following the procedure, Edmo was transferred to a woman's prison and released in 2021.

Since Edmo's release, the attorneys who formerly represented Edmo sued for $2.8 million in compensation, arguing that they had taken the case on "a contingency basis." Judge Winmill agreed, though she reduced the figure to $2.5 million.

"Federal law requires defendants to pay the reasonable attorney fees and costs of a civil rights plaintiff that proves that her civil rights complaint has been violated," Winmall said, "so this order reflects that law."

It is unclear when Winmall's ruling was made.

Though the state did not prevail in its defense, it has emphasized to the public that taxpayers will not be paying for Edmo's attorney fees. The insurance provider Corizon Correctional Healthcare struck a deal with Idaho DOC back in December, promising to pay for any legal fees awarded to Edmo, and in exchange, the state DOC agreed not to compel Corizon to cover its legal fees.

Edmo was represented by several different attorneys, including Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Another lawyer for the defense, Howard Belodoff, questioned the state's decision to appeal the initial District Court ruling.

"They choose to do that," Belodoff said, "and if they choose to do that, the consequence is: When you lose, you pay. It’s as simple as that."


Wife shoots husband at luxury DC hotel, claims he molested children at daycare



A Maryland woman shot her husband, then went on a standoff against police at a luxury hotel in Washington, D.C. The wife allegedly told police that her husband molested children at her daycare business.

Around 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, police received calls that a man was shot on the 8th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington, D.C. Hotel management informed law enforcement that a fire alarm went off. When hotel staff investigated the room, they allegedly saw blood on the wall.

When police officers arrived at the hotel room, a woman talked to cops through the door. The woman – who barricaded herself in a hotel room for nearly an hour – warned police that if they attempted to infiltrate the room that she would shoot herself, according to authorities.

Shanteari Weems, of Randallstown, told police that she shot her husband because she claimed that he molested children at a daycare that she owned and operated, according to charging documents.

Around 8:11 p.m., officers forcibly entered the room. The man – a former Baltimore Police officer who retired from the department in 2005 and was a contract specialist until 2008 – was shot in the leg, according to court documents.

Weems, 50, was apprehended by police.

Weems claimed that numerous children at her Lil Kidz Kastle daycare in Owings Mills informed her that her husband of five years had been molesting them. Weems told police she didn't want to kill her husband, and only wanted to hurt him, according to court documents.

Sgt. Gladys Brown – a spokesperson for Baltimore County Police – said that the Lil Kidz Kastle daycare is closed "while an investigation moves forward."

“Baltimore County detectives are currently monitoring the recent developments in Washington D.C.,” Brown said in a statement. “Due to the sensitive circumstances leading up to this incident, the Baltimore County Police Department continues to support the families impacted.”

Police found two guns in the hotel room.

Weems was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon. Weems was held without bond.

Weems is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

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Trans child molester gloats, laughs about lenient sentence issued thanks to progressive California DA: Report



A transgender child molester sentenced to just two years in juvenile detention for molesting a 10-year-old girl in 2014 recently laughed during jailhouse phone calls about the leniency of his punishment, Fox News reported.

What are the details?

Hannah Tubbs, a 26-year-old biological male, pleaded guilty last month to sexually assaulting a preteen girl eight years ago.

The convicted child molester — who at the time of the assault went by James Tubbs — was just two weeks shy of his 18th birthday when he walked into the women’s restroom of a Denny’s restaurant, grabbed the girl by the throat, and locked her in a stall before proceeding to shove his hand down her pants and sexually assault her.

Because of the heinousness of his crime, prosecutors, politicians, and community members alike desired that he be charged as an adult when he was finally convicted years later. But due to liberal Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón's hard-and-fast rule against trying juveniles as adults, Tubbs avoided a just sentence.

In the end, the sentencing judge's hands were tied, and he assigned Tubbs just two years in a juvenile detention facility. With good behavior, he could be out in six months, and amazingly, he is not required to register as a sex offender.

Woman who sexually assaulted 10-year-old girl as teen will serve sentence in juvenile facility youtu.be

What did he say?

While going over the lenient punishment with his shocked father in November jailhouse phone calls, Tubbs appeared to gloat about the slap on the wrist he was receiving.

"I’m gonna plead out to it, plead guilty," Tubbs said in one recording, according to Fox News. "They’re gonna stick me on probation, and it’s gonna be dropped, it’s gonna be done, I won’t have to register, won’t have to do nothing."

"You won’t have to register?" his father asked on the other line.

"I won’t have to do none of that," Tubbs replied.

"So what are they going to do to you then?" his father then pressed.

Tubbs reportedly answered, "Nothing," then laughed.

In another phone call, Tubbs directs the caller on the other line to address him as a female. According to prosecutors, Tubbs did not begin identifying as a female until after he was taken into custody.

"So now they're going to put me with other trannies that have seen their cases like mine or with one tranny like me that has a case like mine," Tubbs is heard saying. "So when you come to court, make sure you address me as her."

Anything else?

In a statement to Fox News, Tubbs' victim in the case decried her attacker's sentencing as "unfair" and "insulting," adding, "The things he did to me and made me do that day was beyond horrible for a ten-year-old girl to have to go through."

"I want him tried as an adult for the crimes he committed against me," she said.

Gascón has been widely criticized for implementing and maintaining such a rule that would allow a dangerous offender like Tubbs to avoid harsher penalties.

Tubbs has been arrested as an adult for battery, drug possession, and probation violations in Idaho and Washington since 2014.

The district attorney has since changed his tune on the case and other ones like it, admitting that two years "may not" be enough in certain cases.

"Like every responsible office, we learn as we go, take feedback from the community, and make necessary adjustments based on our experiences and the complex nature of this work," he said. "Specifically, we learned a lot from the Hannah Tubbs case about the need for a policy safety valve."

"After her sentencing in our case, I became aware of extremely troubling statements she made about her case, the resolution of it, and the young girl that she harmed," he added despite the fact that prosecutors were well aware of troubling statements prior to sentencing.

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Netflix star and Biden booster charged with producing child pornography

Netflix's "Cheer" celebrity and Biden supporter Jerry Harris was arrested Thursday for federal child pornography charges days after he was under FBI investigation for allegedly soliciting sex from minors.