Transgender Person On Trial For Sexually Assaulting 10-Year-Old Girl In Bathroom
10/18/2017
A Wyoming man who identifies as a transgender woman is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a bathroom.
The trial for Miguel Martinez, who goes by the name Michelle, began on Monday, the Billings Gazette reported . Martinez allegedly invited the young girl into the bathroom with him where he allegedly fondled the girl’s breasts and genitalia, before penetrating her. The girl told police that “it hurt inside” and she started to cry, the Casper Star Tribune reported .
Nurses at a nearby medical center “completed a sexual assault exam and found redness and abrasions on the girl’s genitalia,” according to the Gazette’s report.
Local media reports described Martinez as a “family friend” of the 10-year-old victim.
Martinez told police that the girl had been “talking crap” and dismissed the accusations as a “publicity stunt,” according to local reports.
Martinez faces charges of one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and one count of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. (RELATED: Transgender Person Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Woman In Target Dressing Room)
The trial is expected to last four days, according to the Billings Gazette.
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Since nothing in the linked 'article' or the link in that article suggest that this happened in a PUBLIC bathroom, your cartoon is a reach...
very interesting... if this person is found guilty then hopefully she will go to jail for a very long time.
so how do you propose we prevent this ? which laws would we have to pass to make criminals obey them and not commit crimes in public bathrooms ?
I don't want to sound harsh Phoenyx13, but this transgender would less likely be in that bathroom if we would do what we have always done and that is have men and women's bathrooms instead of catering to the point zero three percent and catered instead to the ninety nine point ninety seven percent.
ah, so you think that if we pass those "Potty Laws" then criminals like the one in this article will think "darn.. even tho i identify as a woman i will have to use the men's room and just not commit a crime today... that sign on the door foiled me again due to those Potty Laws", right ? do you realize that criminals don't obey laws ?
it absolutely is the reasoning - so which is it ? do laws stop criminals or will criminals ignore laws ?
When a dog attacks a kid and leaves that kid fearing dogs the rest of their lives, the dog is put down. We should start doing the same with pedophiles. That will begin to put an end to it.
that's definitely a solution - very harsh and i'm not sure its constitutional but its a solution
wouldn't be a repeat offender. when are they going to keep pedophiles in jail for life?
if it was my child...well I can't say what I would do.
Works for me!
Ask the parent or the child if it's harsh. I'm pretty sure they won't say it's harsh.
The problem is, if they are kept in jail for life, WE are paying for it. Not something I want my money going to.
That cost can and should be cut to about $450 for the first death row inmate and about $1 for all there after.
is there somewhere anyone didn't say he was a pedophile?
I agree that the problem is in the mind, but I disagree on the treatment.
Do they still do lobotomies these days?
I know it's between their ears. I still stand by my statement.
Being a pedo' isnt a capital crime. Most murders and no rapes are capital crimes either.
oh i'm quite sure they wouldn't think its harsh - i probably wouldn't either if i was that parent. should your feelings (or anyone else's) supersede secular law ?
Seems you are about protecting the offender. I'm not. Even the most hardened criminals in prison won't tolerate a pedophile and neither will I.
and that's where i see slight problems - we have to make absolute 100% sure they are guilty... we haven't done a fantastic job of that in the past, thankfully we are making better strides but we are still finding cases that were ruled incorrectly due to new evidence years later. Now, i agree on a personal level that they shouldn't be in society anymore etc, but i won't state my feelings should be secular law. we have laws in place for a reason, irregardless of our feelings on the matter.
That's the nice thing. The law can be changed. How many repeat offenders are there that have been released? Quite a lot.
yes they can be changed and sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. I think there should be a middle or something.. i'm not exactly sure how it would work. I do think things should be very harsh for repeat offenders - but then again that's my personal feelings on the matter. I wouldn't know how to balance it out with secular law.
The death penalty doesn't apply in the vast majority of criminal cases. We cannot let our bloodlust for revenge overtake the justice system or we become a nation of savages.
We need to do more to rehabilitate all criminals instead of tossing them in a cage and let the primal instincts take over. Those are the same primal instincts that got them into prison.
Please tell me you are not trying to convince us that a transgender cannot be a pedophile.
It's ridding the world of a predatory parasite. Plain and simple
That is not how the justice system works in the US.
The system doesn't condone illegals crossing the border either but here we are.
That is going to be the next group that the left is houng to try to legitimize. You know, they will say pedophilia is genetic and just another sexual orientation and natural so it it Ok.
houng =going
I wish things would stop happening whe i make comments. An edit function would be nice also.
that is true. I'm just not sure we have perfected our system enough to be sure its beyond a reasonable doubt in some cases - thusly why some convictions from years ago are overturned due to new evidence or from the way the case was handled etc. just my opinion.
Well if it were the NRA they would say that criminals are going to break the law regardless of what laws you pass so there's no point in banning anything. And what this creep allegedly did is already illegal and had nothing to do with being "allowed" in the girls restroom. Assault is assault regardless of gender identity. There have been women arrested for assaulting young girls in girls bathrooms. So a transgender ban on bathrooms does nothing to stop perverted criminals. This creep allegedly approached this girl outside the bathroom as it says "Martinez allegedly invited the young girl into the bathroom with him". This had nothing to do with him supposedly being transgender and everything to do with him being a sexual predator.
EXACTLY ! when it comes to "gun control" and gun laws then the popular argument for the conservative minded is "well criminals don't obey laws so its pointless" yet when it comes to transgendered individuals all they want to do is pass laws to prevent criminal activity -- which directly contradicts their earlier viewpoint. Either laws prevent crime or they don't - can't have it both ways. if they don't prevent crimes then why pass the laws to prevent criminals from going into the bathroom (regardless of their gender identity) ? those criminals will still go in anyway, they don't care about laws. we already have laws regarding punishment for crimes in public bathrooms.
Signs do not stop sexual predators. Considering 99% of sexual predators are men this really isn't an issue.
Considering 86% of sexual predators are male and 13.99% are female it is not surprising 0.01% might identify as transgender. That percentage is insignificant as to stupid bathroom debates. We long had "Women Only" ladies rooms that never stopped a determined predator. If we really want to stop sexual predation in bathrooms start by busting all the supposedly straigt mostly married men who hang out in the public restrooms in malls, rest areas and parks and other public restrooms. Period. It is a short distance from the men's rooms to the ladys rooms and no gender sign ever stopped a rapist. If that were the case we would not have a problem...
Here’s the depth of thinking of a conservative mind: if we ban transgenders from the bathrooms they identify with, the ones that are looking to rape women won’t go in there. Simple thoughts for simpletons.
If this person is transgender and they're guilty of the pedophilia charges that will be the first actual case in the US I've ever heard of.
I find it very interesting that the vast majority of the comments here make the kneejerk assumption that this alleged assault happened in a public bathroom.
Very good point. Neither of the local articles indicate that it was a public restroom.
I wonder if this accused rapist is any relation to this evangelical pastor?
Kennedy put a man on the moon.
Obama put a man in the Ladies room.
Very revealing that Kennedy supported civil rights but you don't.
Kennedy didn't put a man in the ladies room.