Transgender Predator Realizes Police Found Him

On April 12th, 2023, Bloomington Police officers were dispatched to a residence with an arrest warrant for Michelle, a transgender woman who had been accused of sexually assaulting her nine year old daughter and eight year old son. Michelle was earlier identified as James but she had changed her name legally. James’s daughter accused him of sexually assaulting her regularly over the several years that she had lived with him. She stopped living with him in 2022, when the last incident had happened. Prior to his arrest, James had learned of the accusations made against him through his ex-wife. He then destroyed his phone, which contained pornographic images that he showed his children while abusing them. Some of those nudes were of his ex wife, who had parted ways with him after he came out as a transgender woman. During interrogation, James alleged that he could never abuse his children because he himself was abused by his elder brother when he was a child and knew how it felt. The officer told him that in his experience, the ones inflicting trauma had often faced a severe form of it in their past. James even argued that he could not sustain an erection to even successfully do such a thing because he was on HRT Hormones. James was indicted on five counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. After the indictment, he was issued a $1 million bond warrant.