Transgender pedophile who subjected his 7-year-old daughter to a 'vortex of darkness' sues New Jersey women's prison for hampering his witchcraft



New Jersey permitted a 34-year-old man convicted for torturing and filming pornographic, transgender videos with his 7-year-old daughter to serve his 25-year sentence in a women's prison. The child rapist now claims that the women's facility has wrongfully interfered with his diabolic rituals.

Matthew Volz filed a lawsuit on April 28 in the Hunterdon County Superior Court against the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.

Volz alleges in the suit that he and the "entire Wiccan population" at the prison — an inmate subset for which he provided no accounting — have suffered religious discrimination and now seek religious accommodations.

What's the background?

TheBlaze previously reported that after serving as president of the Clark College Queer Association, Volz started an amateur "transgender pornography" film business with three other degenerates, including Adam Romero, now a fellow inmate at Edna Mahan. They specialized in violent and fetishistic criminal content.

After Volz and the victim's mother separated, he managed to win custody in 2018. Volz brought the child from Oregon to New Jersey, where he exploited her in his videos, reported Reduxx.

The child suffered horribly until the New Jersey Department of Child Protection intervened in 2019 following an anonymous tip made to the New Jersey Child Abuse hotline. The intervention culminated in Volz's arrest.

"If this was not heinous, cruel and depraved, I don’t know what is," said presiding Judge Peter Tober, stressing that the girl had been taken "solely for the sexual gratification" of others and tortured.

Prosecutors indicated that Volz and his cronies subjected the child to "a vortex of darkness."

Volz was convicted for the sexual torture of his young daughter and sentenced in May 2022 to serve a quarter-century in prison.

Despite having his male genitals fully intact, the New Jersey Department of Corrections classified Volz as a "female."

He is presently serving his sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township along with fellow transvestic child-rapist, Adam Romero.

The lawsuit

Volz's lawsuit alleges that Joy Lynch, head of religious services at Edna Mahan, has denied him various essential religious items, including a witch's cloak.

The brown, hoodless cloak is one of the personal and congregate religious items attributed to wiccans by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Other items include: the "Book of Shadows"; a "diviniation tool"; pentacles; pentagrams; rune cards; salt; and chalices.

The suit also complains that other "religious items have been implicitly denied, because [Lynch] refuses to approve a vendor by which the Wiccan population as a whole may fairly obtain their religious items from source of sale."

While a selection of witchcraft paraphernalia is permitted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections' Internal Management Procedures, state regulations state that only the prison chaplain or a volunteer religious group leader can bring ritualistic items into the facility and store them, reported MyCentralJersey.com.

Even if the transvestic pedophile received his desired accoutrement, the prison might be able to restrict his diabolic practice somewhat to ensure the "maintenance of a safe, secure, and orderly operation of a correctional facility," according to the 2019 NJDOC resource guide.

Volz's lawsuit suggests the prison has already applied some limits in a discriminatory fashion.

The child rapist suggested that prior to Dec. 21, 2022, he was "denied the ability to hold corporate worship during appropriate times of day, despite other religious groups being able to worship at those same appropriate times of day that have been requested."

The suit insinuates that the alleged discrepancy "could be viewed by the community as a form of proselytizing because it encourages participation in some religious groups by incentivizing conversion to those religions," singling out the prison's Jewish population as recipients of alleged unfair favor.

The child rapist seeks $9,950 in compensatory damages, stressing the alleged discrimination has left him with "anxiety due to a lack of information, emotional stress, time loss, uncertainty and resultant planning difficulty for religious holy days and sacraments."

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Two women pregnant after sex with transgender inmate at female-only prison in NJ



Two female inmates at a women's prison in New Jersey became pregnant after having sex with a transgender inmate, according to a report from the state's Department of Corrections.

The pregnant women – who were not identified – are housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. The prison has been plagued by a history of sexual assault and abuse scandals.

It appears the women became pregnant from "consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person," Dan Sperrazza – the DOC's external affairs executive director – told NJ.com.

"While DOC cannot comment on any specific disciplinary or housing decisions that may be considered in light of these events, the Department always reserves all options to ensure the health and safety of the individuals in its custody," Sperrazza told the Daily Mail.

The DOC did not specify if the women had sex with the same transgender inmate or two different inmates. An investigation by the state has been initiated.

Edna Mahan – which opened as the State Reformatory for Women in 1913 – houses 27 inmates who identify as transgender and more than 800 women.

New Jersey policy allows inmates to identify by their gender rather than by their birth sex. The state does not require trans women to undergo gender-reassignment surgery in order to be held in the all-female facility. Pat-down searches or strip searches of transgender women may not be conducted by male guards.

The Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women began housing biological men who identified as transgender females last year. The prison started housing transgender inmates following a lawsuit and subsequent settlement by a trans woman and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Jersey.

On Tuesday, ACLU legal director Jeanne LoCicero defended the policy of allowing transgender inmates in a women's prison, saying it protects the rights of transgender prisoners.

"[It's] in line with New Jersey's strong anti-discrimination laws that prevent discrimination and harassment on the basis of gender identity," LoCicero told NJ.com.

The union representing the correctional officers at the prison opposes the policy of having biological men housed at the facility for females.

"We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution," the union's president told NJ.com.

Last year, two female prisoners at the facility filed a lawsuit claiming they were harassed by transgender inmates. They also alleged that trans inmates were having sex with female prisoners.

Last June, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that he plans to close the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility – the Garden State's only women's prison.

Shortly before midnight on Jan. 11, 2021, correctional officers executed a “cell extraction” and reportedly "used excessive force, resulting in serious physical injuries to multiple inmates." One inmate alleged a sexually assault by an officer during the cell extraction.

Correctional officers reportedly punched and kicked a transgender woman during the cell extraction, according to a lawsuit filed in state Superior Court. The transgender inmate also claimed that guards beat her so severely a month later that she had to be hospitalized.

Approximately 30 correctional officers and supervisors at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women were put on administrative leave, and a criminal investigation was launched.

In April 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report accusing the prison staff of failing to stop rampant sexual abuse.

WNBC reported, "Five guards and one civilian worker at the prison pleaded guilty or were convicted of sexually abusing more than 10 women from 2016 to 2019."