A father who sexually abused his five-year-old daughter is being held in a Victorian female correctional centre because he now identifies as a woman, with Premier Jacinta Allan ignoring pleas by women’s groups to have the pedophile moved to a men’s prison.
Ms Allan has refused to make any public comment on the placement of the sex offender, anonymised in court records as Hilary Maloney, who was arrested after he agreed to become the “slave” of an American pedophile and molest his daughter on camera for the sexual gratification of his “master”.
Maloney was caught after sending the man, Samuel Booth, images of himself abusing his daughter at their home in Melbourne in 2023.
Police also discovered several videos of the 25-year-old father abusing the child.
Maloney is heard asking the child whether she “likes it” to which she clearly responds “No.”
Many of the acts committed by Maloney are too graphic to publish.
Ms Allan has received a barrage of complaints since Maloney’s imprisonment in the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre was revealed on the Reduxx women’s rights website last week.
Judge Karapanagiotidis took into account in sentencing that Maloney would “face additional hardship in prison as a relatively young trans woman and that you will struggle considerably, more so with prison life than the average inmate”.
The Victorian government has previously refused to remove a male sex offender convicted of serious offences against women and children who was being housed in the same women’s prison in 2022.
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