Judge Rules Pedophile Who Raped Own Daughter Must Get Taxpayer-Funded Sex Change Op
'She has waited long enough,' Obama-appointed US District Judge James Peterson declares
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A federal judge has ruled that a jailed pedophile, who was convicted of raping his own 10-year-old daughter, will get a "free" sex-change operation - all paid for by the American taxpayer.
49-year-old Mark Allen Campbell was sentenced in 2007 to 34 years in jail after pleading guilty to repeated first-degree sexual assault against the young child.
Since being locked up, he now "identifies" as a transgender woman and prefers the name Nicole Rose Campbell, according to The Post Millennial.
Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge James Peterson has now ruled that Campbell must be moved to a women’s prison while he awaits his sex-change surgery.
After the op, Cambell will then serve the remainder of his sentence in the women's prison.
However, the wait could be a while because there is only one surgeon in Wisconsin who performs sex changes, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Campbell will be the first in Wisconsin to undergo such a procedure while in state custody.
"The rights of transgender persons and sex reassignment surgery remain politically controversial, even outside the prison context,” wrote Peterson.
"And some members of the public are outraged at any effort to improve the health and well being of inmates.
"But the true public interest lies in alleviating needless suffering by those who are dependent on the government for their care.”
"I decline to impose any further prerequisites on Campbell’s sex reassignment surgery; she has waited long enough,” Peterson further wrote.
According to the criminal complaint against Campbell, the child victim told police that Campbell "had sex with her, masturbated in front of her, used various sex toys with her, and exposed her to DVD and video porn movies and magazines."
In 2013, Campbell began to seek gender reassignment surgery, claiming he experienced "gender dysphoria," according to The Blaze.
But the Wisconsin Department of Corrections denied the request, which Campbell's advocates said amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of Campbell's Eighth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Still, the prison system allowed Campbell certain privileges not extended to other inmates.
Campbell was given hormone treatment and is allowed to wear women's clothing despite being locked inside a men's prison.
However, following a three-day bench trial in March, U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled earlier this month that Campbell should receive the surgery.
According to Peterson, Campbell suffers from "the most severe form of gender dysphoria, in which the presence of male genitalia on her body causes particularly severe anguish," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In fact, Peterson agreed that the Department of Corrections had violated Campbell's constitutional rights because of Campbell's severe gender dysphoria and the fact Campbell is a responsibility of the state while imprisoned.
Because there is only one surgeon qualified to perform gender reassignment surgery in Wisconsin, Peterson said it may be up to one year before Campbell receives the surgery.
Peterson said Campbell should be moved to Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women's prison, in the meantime.
"She has waited long enough," Peterson insisted.
Peterson, however, did not grant all of Campbell's requests.
He denied the requests for breast augmentation, voice therapy, and electrolysis.
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According to Wisconsin Public Radio, the state Department of Corrections has declined to comment.
However, Campbell's lawyers celebrated the decision.
"She has done everything she can within the confines of the male prison," attorney Tom Heneghan explained, WPR reported.
"She was allowed to purchase feminine eyewear, she could wear feminine undergarments, they provided her with hormone therapy.
"But they drew the line and said, 'No prisoner in Wisconsin will ever be allowed this kind of surgery.'
"It wasn't even an assessment of her situation."
Heneghan added of Campbell's move to a women's prison, "She assumes, and probably correctly, her life will be easier there, because she will be with other women."
Campbell will become the first Wisconsin inmate to receive gender reassignment surgery while in custody.
