Violent convict's taxpayer-funded sex change challenged by state AG after judge's approval

FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is appealing a national judge's determination to let an inmate – incarcerated for murdering his 11-month-old stepchild – enactment reassignment country pursuing the inmate's lawsuit against the state's correctional facility.

"We were precise wide that we disagreed with the judge's determination successful this case, and present we are officially appealing," Rokita told Fox News Digital. "Prisoners similar the convicted babe murderer successful this lawsuit don’t person a law close to sex modulation surgeries, overmuch little to person taxpayers ft the bill."

"We volition proceed doing our work to defend Indiana’s commonsense laws," helium said. 

INDIANA JUDGE RULES PRISON MUST PROVIDE TRANSGENDER SURGERY FOR INMATE WHO KILLED BABY

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Indiana Department of Corrections connected behalf of a transgender inmate, Jonathan C. Richardson, besides known arsenic Autumn Cordellionè, who was convicted of strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to decease successful 2001. (Indiana Department of Corrections/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital archetypal learned that Rokita filed the intent to entreaty announcement connected Wednesday morning.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Indiana Department of Corrections past twelvemonth connected behalf of a transgender inmate, Jonathan C. Richardson, besides known arsenic Autumn Cordellionè, who was convicted of strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to decease successful 2001.

Indiana law, however, prohibits the Department of Corrections from utilizing payer dollars to money enactment reassignment surgeries for inmates. However, the ACLU argues successful the lawsuit, filed connected Aug. 28, 2023, that the instrumentality is simply a usurpation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of "cruel and antithetic punishment."

ACLU SUES INDIANA OVER DENIAL OF SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY FOR INMATE WHO STRANGLED 11-MONTH-OLD TO DEATH

A justice granted the inmate's question for a enactment alteration surgery. (iStock)

The country for Cordellioné, who is serving retired a 55-year situation condemnation for reckless homicide, "is a aesculapian necessity," according to the ACLU lawsuit.

Judge Richard Young agreed with the ACLU's claims and ruled successful favour of Cordellioné past month.

"Specifically, Ms. Cordellioné has shown that her sex dysphoria is simply a superior aesculapian need, and that, contempt different treatments Defendant has provided her to dainty her sex dysphoria, she requires gender-affirming country to forestall a hazard of superior bodily and intelligence harm," the ruling states.

In a abstracted suit past year, Cordellioné filed a civilian suit against the situation chaplain for allegedly prohibiting him from wearing a hijab extracurricular his contiguous furniture quarters, contempt identifying arsenic a Muslim woman. 

TRANS INMATE WHO KILLED BABY AND IDENTIFIES AS MUSLIM WOMAN SUES CHAPLAIN FOR ALLEGEDLY NOT ALLOWING HIJAB

Todd Rokita connected April 4, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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According to court documents, Cordellioné strangled his then-wife’s 11-month-year aged girl to decease portion she was astatine enactment connected Sept. 12, 2001. 

During Cordellioné's archetypal interrogation with 1 of the detectives, helium was calm and "unemotional" erstwhile recounting what happened, tribunal documents from Indiana's Court of Appeals show.