A female inmate in Maine’s only women’s prison has filed a lawsuit alleging harassment and assault committed against her by a trans-identified male transfer. Katie Mountain has filed the lawsuit against two prison officials and her former cellmate, a double-murderer named Andrew Balcer, who now goes by the feminine name “Andrea.” Balcer is serving a 40-year prison sentence in the women’s prison at Windham for the grisly murder of his parents, a crime that was defended in court on the basis of Balcer’s self-declared “gender identity.”
Now, Mountain’s lawsuit is seeking to challenge a state policy which requires inmates to be housed according to a self-declared “gender” rather than by their biological sex.
“Katie Mountain, who is 5 feet 2 inches tall, was forced to bunk with Balcer, a 6-foot, 310-pound male,” the lawsuit states. “While bunking together, Balcer subjected Mountain to graphic sexual stories, trapped her in a bathroom to forcibly kiss her, and made repeated threats of rape and impregnation. Balcer talked disturbingly about putting a baby in her, and pointing to his crotch said, ‘look at my ten-man tent’ and ‘we can’t go for a ride, but you can ride me.’”
In 2018, Balcer was convicted of fatally stabbing his own parents, Alice and Antonio Balcer, inside their home in Winthrop. The murders took place on Halloween in 2016, and at the time, he was 17 years old. After committing the double homicide, during which he also killed the family dog, Balcer was recorded confessing during a 911 phone call. He told the dispatcher that he stabbed his mother in her back when she reached to give him a hug goodnight.
“She went to hug me and I just put my knife in her back,” Balcer can be heard saying in the recording. When the dispatcher asked him why he did it, he said he didn’t know.
Source: Female Inmate at Women’s Prison Files Lawsuit Over Assault by Trans-Identified Male Transfer