California Dems vote to keep male sex offenders in women’s prisons
Last week, Democrats on the California Senate Public Safety Committee torpedoed a bill that sought to keep transgender-identifying male sex offenders out of women’s prisons.
Under current California law, male convicts who claim to be women can request to be housed in female detention centers. This has exposed female inmates to sexual assault and violence, as in the case of Tremaine Carroll, a transgender-identifying male who was housed in a women’s prison and raped several inmates. Carroll also brutally attacked a pregnant inmate, causing her to have a “spontaneous abortion.”
The proposed legislation, sponsored by Republican state Senator Shannon Grove, would have barred only those transgender-identifying males who are convicted of sex offenses from being housed in women’s prisons. It was shot down by the Public Safety Committee after receiving only one supporting vote, which came from Senator Kelly Seyarto, the committee’s only Republican.
Scott Wiener, a far-Left Democrat on the committee, criticized Grove’s bill as “discriminatory” against “trans people,” saying it was an attempt to dehumanize them and “turn trans people into terrifying predators.” Grove told the Daily Wire that California’s Democrat supermajority has a “preference for predators versus victims.”
Predators vs. victims
In further evidence for Grove’s statement, last year, every California Democrat lawmaker voted against AB 2641, a bill that would have removed state sanctuary protections from illegal alien sex offenders.
Under California’s current sanctuary state law, law enforcement is prohibited from fully cooperating with immigration authorities. A California police officer cannot, for example, ask a person’s immigration status or detain an illegal immigrant at the request of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. If an illegal immigrant has been jailed or incarcerated for a crime, California law enforcement officials are forbidden from providing ICE authorities with the migrant’s release date.
AB 2641 would have stripped such protections from any illegal immigrant who is convicted of sexual abuse or crimes against minors. California Assemblyman Bill Essayli introduced the legislation after learning that an illegal Colombian pedophile was set free in California instead of being turned over to ICE.
