CA — Montreal, Québec. Jody Matthew Burke, currently in prison for extreme sexual violence against his wife, has requested at his sentencing hearing that he not receive a dangerous offender designation because he now identifies as a woman.
Burke is a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter (described by a Québec journalist as “impressively built”) who was convicted of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, sexual assault causing bodily harm, assault and uttering threats.
He beat his wife, Brigitte Jobin, for months, raped her at knifepoint, broke her ribs, strangled her to the point of unconsciousness, and forced her to tattoo his name on her skin. Unbeknownst to Jobin when she met him, he was residing at a halfway house, where he was serving a sentence for similar violent sexual assault crimes committed in 2005 and 2014 in British Columbia and Ontario. She also was unaware that he was on the federal sexual offender registry as a result of these convictions.
Burke began identifying as “non-binary” at some point after his most recent assault charges in 2017, for which he has been incarcerated since his arrest (the exact timeline of when he first adopted a transgender identity is not known, due to his unclear testimony), but says he only realized he was a woman a few weeks ago.
WTF Its beyond belief that anyone would buy his request… he is dangerous and has been at least 3 Xs wickedly cruel and evil to women…as for being a woman, Women do not do crimes like this. How convenient men can just pull heart strings around Just realising NOT its BS…Put him away for life with men