He wanted to use an electric rod
Meanwhile across the pond –
He didn’t mean it, you see.
A 22-year-old transgender woman, accused of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to a fellow inmate and a prison officer at Limerick Prison, has been found not guilty on all charges.
Barbie Kardashian had denied three charges and told gardaí that she never intended to carry out the threats.
But he was accused of making the threats, not of intending to carry them out. He admits making them, and that’s the charge, but they found him not guilty anyway.
Over the past four days, a jury of seven women and five men have heard evidence against Ms Kardashian, who is an inmate in Limerick Prison.
Fellow prisoner, Tegan McGhee, said she threatened to rape her on a date in February last year after a row over complaints about the accused not cleaning the prison showers. Prison officer Róisín Linnane also gave evidence of threats of sexual violence against her by Ms Kardashian on two dates in June last year.
Both witnesses said they were shocked and terrified by the threats.
But they’re just women, so they don’t matter all that much.
After being questioned by gardaí the accused confirmed she did make the threats against the two witnesses, but that she never intended to carry them out, and that they were made in a fit of rage after being falsely accused of leaving the prison showers in an unhygienic condition.
But making the threats is what he was charged with.
Following the verdict Ms Kardashian smiled, clenched her fists in celebration, uttering “yes” and whispered to her legal time that she was so happy.
I bet he is.
We forbid threats of harm because they create the fear of harm, and we decided that it is bad for people to create fear. This case, from the brief read I took of another article, seems to have rested on the issue of whether Barbie’s threats could really have been taken as inducing fear, given he is stuck in a cell 22 hours a day, and is not free to mingle for the other two.
On the other hand, if the threats had been made against a judge or law enforcement, it doesn’t matter how realistic the threat is. Issuing that threat at all is an automatic bad thing. I wonder where that balance lies.
I also wonder if this is being appealed.
This horror is getting covered on Irish national Television. The public are finally being informed.