A woman imprisoned in New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) says she was battered by a biologically male transgender inmate after she repeatedly refused his sexual advances. Inmate Shakira Reed says she was assaulted by Jermaine Gibson, who identifies as transgender and uses the name Cyntara, and was repeatedly sexually harassed by Gibson prior to the assault.
Witnesses say the assault occurred on April 17, with Gibson punching Reed in the head over and over again. They say that in the aftermath of the assault, blood was “everywhere.”
As a result of her injuries, which included a broken nose and two black eyes, Reed was taken from the prison to Hunterdon Medical Center, where she received medical care before being transferred back to the prison hospital.
Reed alleged that Gibson sexually harassed her for weeks leading up to the assault, such as exposing himself to her. Reed alleges that she promptly reported him to prison authorities, but they did nothing about it. “It got so bad, to the point where I didn’t want to come out of my room. I faked sick so I wouldn’t have to go to work, so I wouldn’t have to walk past him, so I wouldn’t have to hear him make remarks about my body. I started wearing large clothing to cover my body because I was feeling so uncomfortable.”
Reed says the assault was in retaliation for repeated refusal to accept Gibson’s sexual advances. “I was attacked because I didn’t want to have sex with him,” Reed told Reduxx.
Reed says she has now been penalized for defending herself against her attacker. Both Gibson and Reed were punished for the violence, by being given 90 days in “lockup,” a holding cell that is isolated from other inmates. Reed was sent to lockup immediately after being discharged from the prison hospital.
Earlier, a transgender pedophile with a penis was transferred to the same women’s prison after being convicted of sexually abusing his own daughter and filming the abuse for porn videos, reported the London Daily Mail.
Another female inmate who has repeatedly been placed within the same cell block unit as several biologically male transgender inmates expressed outrage and dismay at the female inmates’ living situation. “I lived on the wing with both of them. Gibson continuously harassed Reed and would often speak in his man voice because he thought it was funny when he was asked not to because it had made the women uncomfortable,” she said. “During the days leading up to the actual incident, he kept egging her on. When it actually took place, I could hear it. I didn’t see it, but it was so loud we heard them down the wing, and this took place in the rec room. We could hear Shakira yelling, ‘Stop hitting me!’”
The female inmate said she felt the transfer of biologically male transgender inmates to the women’s prison was “obscene” because most still have their male private parts, and many have been convicted of violent crimes against women.
“The recent events here are just unimaginable and honestly if I wasn’t living them I wouldn’t even believe them. People need to know what this has been like for us because no one has ever come to ask us how we feel about them being here. This is misogyny within misogyny.”
In December 2016, Gibson was arrested for stealing a Suzuki motorcycle he was driving that he had taken from a person in Columbus Park. After his arrest, he was charged over a November 2016 robbery, for which he is now serving a sentence of five years, which is that long in part due to his prior criminal record. Gibson committed that robbery at a deli on Bert Avenue and demanded cash from a female worker, using scissors as a weapon. Fearing for her life, she handed over money from the cash register. The worker told police Gibson was wearing a woman’s wig and carrying a purse at the time of the crime.
Gibson is one of over two dozen biological males who have been transferred into the women’s prison over the past few years. In 2019, the ACLU sued the New Jersey Department of Corrections on behalf of transgender offenders in the famously progressive New Jersey legal system, obtaining a legal settlement in a settlement which required the state to allow violent biologically male inmates to transfer into the women’s prison if they self-identify as male.
The lawsuit was launched on behalf of a transgender male inmate who sought transfer but had been denied. That inmate sued under the name “Sonia Doe.” It turns out that Doe is a criminal previously known as Daniel Smith who was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for trying to sell pipe bombs. Daniel Smith uses the name Danielle Demers and is a vocal participant in the “adult diaper” community, a fetish subculture which involves adults dressing up as kids during sex.
Among the first biological males to be transferred to the women’s prison after the ACLU’s lawsuit was a vicious murderer boasted about drinking his victim’s blood. Killer Perry Cerf had received a 50-year prison sentence in 2003 for raping and killing a sex-trafficked woman from Ecuador. Cerf now goes by the name “Michelle Hel-loki Angelina” and is treated as female by the prison system. When he was arrested, he was wearing his victim’s clothes and using her ID with his photo superimposed over hers.
Another biological male transferred to the women’s prison impregnated two women in the prison. According to women at the prison, Demetrius ‘Demi’ Minor had been seeking to have sex with female inmates as soon as he transferred into the prison.
A pedophile rapist was placed in a women’s prison in Washington State after claiming to be transgender.
There are at least 122 transgender sexual predators who could end up preying on women in women’s prisons under similar policies. For example, Karen White is a double rapist who was previously convicted of indecent assault and gross indecency with a child. White was later housed in a women’s prison where White sexually assaulted the female inmates.
As we noted in December,
In 2021, a transgender inmate raped a female prisoner while in the women’s section of a New York City jail. The New York Post reported that the transgender inmate — who was housed in the female section of the facility — approached a 33-year-old female inmate in the bathroom, after the victim had just finished showering. The transgender inmate then held the victim down by the neck and raped her. Similarly, a British transgender inmate sexually assaulted a woman, and sexually molested other female inmates, over a three-month period….The Glinner Update provides a copious list of transgender sex offenders, illustrating that there are transgender “women” who pose a risk to women if allowed to use female-only spaces, given their commission of sex crimes before, and in some cases after, their gender transition.
For example, Xena Grandichelli, formerly known as Jeffrey Willsea, was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse and aggravated second-degree sexual abuse (eleven counts in total) for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl. Grandichelli began claiming to be transgender while incarcerated. After being released Grandicelli became a much-lauded trans activist and volunteered for AVP, the ‘largest anti-LGBTQ violence organization’ in the United Kingdom.
Kristen Lukess, formerly known as Mark Turton, was convicted of two counts of raping an underage child. While incarcerated he began ‘identifying as female’ and changed his name to Kristen Lukess. Based on his new identity, he was able to to live with a woman and her 11-year-old child.
In 1978 Patrick Trimble kidnapped two nine-year-old girls, tying them up and forcing them into his vehicle. He drove them to a rural area and forced each child to perform an indecent act on him before penetrating one of the little girls with his finger and with his genitals. He was convicted of kidnapping, sodomy, rape and sexual abuse in the first degree.
In prison he routinely tortured, sexually assaulted and prostituted his vulnerable cell mate, Jerry James Everett, who was awaiting trial for stealing a car. According to a 1982 court document, Trimble forced Everett to have both oral and anal sex with him and humiliated him in various ways for the entertainment of other prisoners. Trimble also pimped Everett to other inmates for sex and regularly tortured him, making deep gashes in his flesh and placing lit matches between his toes.
In 2015 Trimble began identifying as trans and using the name Patricia a few years later. Trimble has become a vocal trans activist and has written extensively about and lobbied for prison reform. Trimble is now described as “a transgender feminist, activist, and advocate for the incarcerated LGBTQ community.”
