Woman housed in cell with trans-identifying male pedophile sues Washington state prisons over sexual assault

A former inmate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Corrections on Friday, claiming she was subjected to alleged sexual abuse and harassment in 2022 after being housed with a trans-identifying biological male pedophile while incarcerated.

In the lawsuit, plaintiff Mozzy Clark-Sanchez alleged that WCCW staff placed her in a cell with a biological male inmate who was transferred from a men's prison after he "claimed to identify as a woman." That male, the lawsuit contends, is 35-year-old Christopher Williams, a 6'4 convicted pedophile serving a 28.5-year prison sentence for brutally assaulting his former girlfriend. He was previously convicted of child rape and is alleged to have subjected Clark-Sanchez to repeated harassment and sexual abuse, court records show. Clark-Sanchez is a survivor of child rape and previously said she was "raped by my uncle, and my mom used to sell me to pay for drugs."

Clark-Sanchez alleged that Williams would frequently and graphically describe sexual acts he wanted to do to her and would fondle her as she slept. The plaintiff said in the suit that she would wake up to find Williams' hands on her genitals, breasts, and legs. On at least one occasion, a prison guard caught Williams in the act and rather than remove him from the cell, ordered Williams back to his bunk. Clark-Sanchez said that on one occassion Williams brought a strap-on dildo into the cell and asked her to use it on him. Williams is also accused of repeatedly leering at female inmates while they showered.


Inmate Christopher Williams was transferred to the women's prison after changing his gender-identity to female


Prison officials ignored her concerns, Clark-Sanchez said, and tried to convince her not to file official complaints. She said that they cautioned her about potential retaliation from Williams, Kiro 7 News reported. The suit claims that DOC officials were cognizant of Williams' previous behavior, including sexual misconduct with another female cellmate, but they neglected to take the necessary measures to safeguard Clark-Sanchez.

The lawsuit also alleges that WCCW and DOC policies of housing biologically male prisoners who have known histories of violence and sexual offenses in women's facilities violate the constitutional rights of female inmates.

Clark-Sanchez is seeking damages for emotional distress, humiliation, and violations of her constitutional rights under the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. She has also requested punitive damages and attorney's fees, as per the suit. In August, Clark-Sanchez was notified that her 2022 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) case against Williams had been referred to the state police.
 

According to court documents, Williams was transferred from a men’s prison in Washington state to WCCW in 2021 after changing his gender identity to female. He was granted a transfer under the Washington Department of Corrections' gender-inclusion policies, which were implemented in 2020 by Democrat Governor Jay Inslee. Male convicts may be admitted to female-only prisons if an administrative panel approves their gender dysphoria diagnosis.

In 2005, Williams was arrested and booked into jail for first-degree child molestation. According to court documents, Williams, 16-years-old at the time, confessed to touching his 9-year-old sister's genitalia outside her clothing on several occasions. Williams' father told investigators that Williams also molested his sister when she was 6-years-old. He spent 2 years and 8 months in a counseling center in Utah before he was released and ordered to register as a sex offender, as per court filings. In 2009 and 2010, he was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, a class C felony.

Williams was sentenced to 342 months in prison in 2012 for a domestic violence incident in which he was found guilty of first-degree assault. According to court filings, Williams attacked his girlfriend with a pipe, repeatedly striking her in the head.  

While in prison, Williams allegedly assaulted a male prison guard who was rendered unconscious in September 2012 and needed surgery to reconstruct his face, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the National Review. Williams confessed to the attack. According to jail records, Williams is still being housed at the WCCW.

In March, 35-year-old Amber FayeFox Kim, a trans-identifying male who previously went by Bryan Kim, was removed from the WCCW and transferred back to a men’s prison after being busted having sex with a 25-year-old female inmate, along with other safety concerns. Earlier this month, Kim, serving a life sentence, filed a petition arguing that a transfer out of the women's prison to a men’s prison was cruel punishment. 

Kim was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his parents. After the murders, Kim attempted to clean the crime scene and conceal the parents' bodies, and the following day went shopping and used the father's debit card to withdraw $1,000. Kim was originally housed at a men's facility but was transferred to WCCW in 2021 under the state Department of Correction's gender-inclusion policy. After Kim was transferred to the women’s facility, there were complaints by female inmates of sexual exploitation by male inmates who identified as female, including numerous cases of sexual assault by convicted transgender felons. Despite Washington officials denying having these complaints on file, redacted documents obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI show that as of October 2023, there are approximately 62 trans-identifying males in the prison population, including rapists and child rapists. The documents also listed multiple substantiated instances of "inmate-on-inmate sexual harassment."

Despite a hiring freeze instituted by Inslee this month in response to a budget deficit, the Washington DOC recently posted a job for a six-figure salary for the new position of Gender Affirming Medical Specialist for inmates. Additionally, Washington has already spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on gender reassignment surgeries, hormone replacement therapies, and other “gender-affirming healthcare” for transgender-identifying inmates. 

The Post Millennial reached out to the Washington Department of Corrections for comment.