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Woman Who Gave Child to Ian Watkins Freed From Prison

📆 18/10/2025 19.31.00

Crime Berita

Ian Watkins, Child Abuse, Prison Release

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Woman A, one of the two mothers who gave their children to Ian Watkins for abuse, has been released from prison in 2023. Watkins, the former Lostprophets singer, was convicted of child sexual offenses and died in prison earlier this month. Woman B is also seeking parole.

Two women were sent to prison for giving their children to Ian Watkins to abuse One of the women imprisoned for handing her child to the late Lostprophets ’ paedophile Ian Watkins was freed from prison a couple of years ago.

Watkins was stabbed to death earlier this month at HMP Wakefield while serving a 35-year sentence after being convicted of 13 child sexual offences in 2013. Two inmates, Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, have been charged with his murder. 

Alongside the news of Watkins’ death, the Daily Mail has now confirmed the fate of the two mothers complicit in his egregious crimes – known as Woman A and Woman B to protect the identities of their children who were abused by the disgraced singer. 

Earlier this week, it was reported that Woman B, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2013, had started a fresh bid for freedom with an upcoming parole review confirmed. Now, the Mail has revealed that Woman A, who was sentenced to 14 years after admitting her guilt to charges of child abuse from the start, has already been freed. 

It is understood Woman A, who has never been identified, was released from prison in 2023. The Ministry of Justice told the publication that she was released in November 2023, having served more than half of her sentence. 

During the trial, a psychiatrist spoke about the long-term impact this childhood abuse would have on Woman A’s child, who is likely to have lifelong psychological difficulties coming to terms with the enormity of what has happened to him. He will eventually learn the truth of his childhood and the abuse he was subjected to,’ they said in court. 

In a speech during both women’s 2013 trial at Cardiff Crown Court, Justice Royce said: ‘A mother naturally loves, protects, shields, nurtures and cherishes. Your infant would have trusted you implicitly. You totally betrayed that trust.’ 

Watkins’ ex-girlfriend Joanne Mjadzelics – whose concerns were repeatedly ignored by the police – had initially made contact with Woman A, then 20, in 2012 to warn her about Watkins. A month later, Woman A and Watkins abused her baby together at the K West Hotel in West London and filmed it, in an act Justice Royce called ‘sickening and incomprehensible’. Woman A then encouraged Watkins as he attempted to rape the baby. 

Watkins was eventually arrested following the execution of a drugs warrant at his home in September 2012, where a large number of computers, mobile phones and storage devices were seized. 

In 2014, he was refused the right to appeal his sentence due to the ‘shocking’ nature of his crimes. According to music journalist and one-time acquantance Winwood: ‘Ian went to his grave thinking he had been wronged. He was deluded. I think he drove himself insane in the end.’ 

Mjadzelics told the Mail: ‘As far as I’m concerned neither of them should be out of prison yet and neither should ever be allowed near children again. How can any mother do such evil to their own baby?’ 

As for Woman B, she was previously released in 2021 before being sent back to prison shortly after. In November 2023, there was another parole hearing to consider her release, concluding: ‘She had been too easily influenced and manipulated by another person. ‘She had felt lonely and had been unable to successfully maintain relationships. Nor had she thought sufficiently about the impact of her actions on her victim.’ 

Discussing her upcoming bid for release, a spokesperson for the Parole Board said: ‘‘Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.’ ‘A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims.’ 

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Canadian Justice > Unbelievable Madness in B.C.s Prison System

 

This is so far beyond stupidity, it's out of sight

Billboard Chris 

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In B.C., a man named Adam Laboucan raped a three month old and drowned a toddler. He later identified as a woman, was given breast implants for free by the province, and was transferred into the Fraser Valley Penitentiary for WOMEN.

This is British Columbia Justice. What madness!

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Violent pedophile who raped three-month-old baby as a teenager is quietly moved to female prison with mother-and-baby unit after having transgender surgery in Canada

By Alex Oliveira For Dailymail.Com19:27 14 Feb 2023, updated 19:27 14 Feb 2023

• Adam Laboucan was sentenced in 1997 for raping a baby at 15-years-old
• Laboucan was moved to a women's prison by 2017 after transitioning to a woman
• While there Laboucan has reportedly stared at infants housed in a mother-child ward, and attended volunteer events where babies were present

A violent Canadian pedophile who brutally raped a three-month-old infant while a teenager was moved to a mother-and-baby ward after transitioning to a woman in prison.

Adam Laboucan, who in 1999 became Canada's the youngest convicted criminally violent sex offender at just 17-years-old, began identifying as a woman named Tara Desousa and boasted of receiving gender-transitioning surgery around 2018.

Sometime after the transition, Laboucan was granted permission to move to a women's ward at the Fraser Valley Institution, where he was housed in a cell bordering a unit where incarcerated mothers are allowed to live with their children up to seven-years-old.

Inmates have reported Laboucan frequently menaces the mothers by making suggestive comments and staring at their children, and has even showed up to prison events where children were present, according to Reduxx.

Laboucan's crime was considered so violent, and his ensuing behavior while incarcerated so unpredictable, he was handed a rare prison sentence with no determinate length. During his trial, he also confessed to drowning a three-year-old boy when he was just 11.

Laboucan was convicted of raping the three-month-old boy he was babysitting when he was just 15. The victim was so severely injured in the attack he required reconstructive surgery.

It is unclear when Laboucan began his gender transition, but during his trial it was testified he showed 'everything from transsexual to pedophilic tendencies,' according to CBC.  

By 2010 he was calling himself Tara Desousa, and by 2017 he had been transferred to the women's prison where he became violent with fellow inmates, including an altercation where he 'flung another inmate by her hair, then kicked her in the face,' according to Reduxx.

A year later, a 2018 prison dating profile showed pictures of Laboucan dressed as a woman and sporting a large pair of breasts, and was listed under the name Desousa.

'I am a transgender woman and I was born a man but now after surgery I became a full woman,' he wrote on this profile, 'I have a vagina, not a penis, and also have 720ccs DD gel implants.'

Despite his violent past, Laboucan was housed alongside the prison's mother's ward, where other inmates can apply to babysit children as young as infants.

Advocate for incarcerated women, Heather Mason, told Canada's Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security that Laboucan had made numerous mothers in the ward uncomfortable.

'One of these women reported that while in the mother-child program, two transgender individuals with convictions for pedophilia,' Mason said. 'Tara Desousa would loiter near her and her child, making sexist and inappropriate antagonizing comments.'

Mason told Reduxx inmates confided that Laboucan could often be seen 'staring' at children in the ward.

The inmate also described a volunteer event at the prison where she brought her infant-son along, and a prison guard warned her Laboucan was present. 

'I was told that there was an extremely violent child sex offender present who hadn't been in the presence of a young child in a very long time,' the mother said, noting her son was close to the same age as Laboucan's rape victim.

'Once I was informed of the sick and brutal nature of the crime against the child, I regretted even going or letting that person set eyes on my child,' she said.

During his incarceration, Laboucan has requested and been denied parole numerous times.

One parole board rejected him in 2010 citing 'bizarre sexual behavior' they felt posed a threat to the public, including 'gender identity, impulsive behaviour, violence and sexual deviance,' according to CTV News.

The board cited Laboucan admitting to sexually abusing relatives and friends while he was free. 'Mutilation of your penis has also occurred, with you claiming [you] want to be female,' the board said.

It also noted the drowning murder of the three-year-old, which Laboucan committed in a fit of rage. Because he was under 12 when the killing occurred, Canadian law did not charge him with the crime. 

Laboucan also exhibited violence in and sexual deviance in jail. The parole board noted he had been found serving as a prostitute to other inmates, taking drugs was caught with a homemade knife, stabbed a fellow inmate, and threatened to murder a female prison guard.