Mick Hartley

One of those stories that, we're told by trans apologists, just never happens.

Olympia, Washington. A level 1 sex offender convicted of the rape of a 12-year-old girl was transferred to a women’s prison, where he groomed and raped a woman who is developmentally disabled and a survivor of sexual abuse, a commercial radio station and editorial publication are reporting.

Hobbie Bingham was convicted in Louisiana in 2003 for the offense of Carnal Knowledge Of A Juvenile. He was imprisoned for just two years, with a judge handing him a six-year sentence with four years suspended. Mr Bingham was also required to register as a low-level sex offender.

The transient registered as a sex offender in Thurston County, Washington when he relocated to Olympia in May 2018.

While imprisoned again for further offenses, Mr Bingham, who had by then begun identifying as a woman named Princess Zoee Andromeda Love, became one of three male inmates in the state of Washington whose request for transfer to women’s prison was granted after January 1, 2021, Washington State Department of Corrections (WADOC) responsive documents obtained by Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) revealed in May.

According to the “Dori Monson Show” on KIRO Radio, an anonymous employee found Andromeda Love having “sex” with a female inmate. The National Review yesterday revealed that the discovery of the two, who had been cellmates for a week, “unclothed” and in bed together was made by a female officer.

The National Review obtained an incident summary, which disclosed that Mr Andromeda Love had convinced the woman, who had the “disposition of a young child,” that the pair were “soulmates.”

Scott Fleming, who worked as a guard at the prison at the time and learned of the incident from the officer who discovered the cellmates in bed, said he observed it as a “predator/victim interaction post-assault,” rather than “two inmates in love, after having consensual intercourse.”

WoLF, a women’s rights organization that opposes gender identity legislation, agreed with prison staff’s assessment, saying the incarcerated woman was “technically raped.”

The officer who discovered the pair wrote them up for an infraction, which she saved on her computer, but noticed a month later that the information had been erased. Noting that the erasure of the data coincided with the launch of lawsuits by Disability Rights Washington and other trans advocacy groups against the WADOC for unlawfully leaking information about inmates’ gender identities to the media, including the “Dori Monson Show,” Mr Fleming said he believes the erasure was part of the WADOC’s attempt at a coverup. The ex-staffer admonished the WADOC as “highly irresponsible” for failing to administer a rape kit and file an incident report.

Mr Fleming further revealed to the National Review that female inmates referred to and treated Mr Andromeda Love as a man, including referring to him with male pronouns.

Mr Andromeda Love cut his hair short and began calling himself a man on the day of his release, the publication reported his cellmate and other inmates as saying. 

A cynical exploitation of a deeply flawed policy, then: inevitable and entirely predictable. Some men will do whatever it takes to gain sexual control over women: this much we know for sure. As for the cover-up, well…

More from the National Review, where we learn that the woman who was raped, a victim of a previous sexual assault, had been housed in the prison’s mental-health unit. Just the person, then, to share a cell with a convicted rapist.