Convicted sex offender Barbie Kardashian, previously described as a “homicidal girl” but who was born male, was freed from prison today after serving a four-and-a-half year sentence for threatening to rape, torture and kill his mother.
A Gript correspondent who was at the scene said that Kardashian came out Limerick Women’s prison this morning dressed in women’s apparel and wearing a lot of make up.
The violent sex offender then made “startling admissions”, including saying telling a reporter that he had no regrets in regard to his crimes – and made violent threats. He said that accommodation had been arranged for him in Dublin.
In all, Kardashian has 15 previous convictions including for threats to kill, sexual assault, assault causing harm, assault and causing criminal damage to property.
He will be placed on the sex offenders register, and is required to notify Gardaí of his address – and has been forbidden by the court to attempts to communicate with his mother and father. It was reported that Gardaí have issued an alert after Kardashian failed to notify officers of his new address.
A probation report cited “major concerns” that Kardashian was unremorseful regarding previous crimes and threats, and posed a high risk of reoffending. Psychiatrists who assessed him warned of a “real danger” of Kardashian acting on violent fantasies.
Gript has shocking videos from the scene at Limerick Women’s Prison this morning which we will be sharing shortly.
Women’s groups expressed shock and upset at news of Kardashian’s release.
Campaign group, The Countess, said that Barbie Kardashian, was “described as a clear and present danger to women by an Irish Judge” and was a “man who threatened to rape and torture his mother, a female prisoner, a female prison guard and who tore off the eyelid of a female social worker” and “is now at large”.
“The law that allowed him to be placed in female prison has no place on our statute books and must be immediately amended to exclude all female only spaces including prisons,” chair Laoise de Brún said.
Kardashian had served his sentence after being found guilty of seven counts of threatening to kill, rape, torture or cause serious harm to his mother.
The sentencing judge, Tom O’Donnell, said that the psychiatric reports on Kardashian made for “chilling and disturbing” reading.
At a meeting with a social care manager, also attended by guardian ad litem, Kardashian said:
“If I got into (my mother’s) house I would run towards her and put the knife into her body and into her genitalia; the thing is, I would want to prolong my mum’s suffering for as long as possible”.
“I would stab her, but not in her heart or neck, I’d want to put her through lots of torture, fear and humiliation”.
“I would bring a screwdriver to insert inside her genitalia because I am a woman and women rape using objects; it would definitely be a long protracted incident, I would want her to bleed out after death after a number of hours, by putting objects into her vagina, pouring boiling water into that area.”
Kardashian, who has been diagnosed with several personality disorders, also said:
“I know that my mum is smaller than me, she is physically weak and she is frail, when I was living with her since I was nine or ten I was stronger than her then and I know she would be overpowered by me.”
“I would only walk away after she was dead. I would check her pulse to make sure she was dead, I wouldn’t want her to run out and shout ‘help’, ‘help’, ‘help’. I wouldn’t want to be caught by the Gardai, I think I would be caught because I do not feel that I could outsmart them.”
Justice O’Donnell noted that Kardashian’s threats had become ‘more sinister, more alarming and more vile’ as his term in a teens’ facility came to an end.
The judge also said that Kardashian has 15 previous convictions including one for sexual assault carried out when he was just 13 years of age and that these factors were of “enormous concern”.
“All [the assaults] were involving violence and underpin the fact the accused has a tendency towards violence, which is always a concern,” the judge said.
While in his late teens, Kardashian, who was born a male and named Gabriel Alejandro Gentile, obtained a gender recognition certificate issued by the Department of Social Protection under the Gender Recognition Act of 2015 which allows any man or woman to change their sex by making a legal declaration that they now want to live as the opposite sex. There is no requirement for medical treatment, for medication, or for counselling