Posted on 01/17/2025 6:56:00 AM PST by Red Badger
Content Notice: This article contains graphic details from a trial related to the sexual abuse of a young child. Some readers may find the content disturbing. Reader discretion is appreciated.
A trans-identified male in Australia has been sentenced to just over 4 years in prison for the horrific sexual abuse of his own 5-year-old daughter. While the offender was given the pseudonym of “Hilary Maloney” by the court, Reduxx can exclusively reveal the pedophile as Autumn Tulip Harper.
Reduxx has chosen to withhold Harper’s male birth name in order to protect the identity of the victim.
Harper, 25, was first identified as a suspect in the production of vile child sexual abuse content after an American pedophile he had been communicating with was arrested in September of 2023. A forensic examination of the pedophile’s devices found that Harper had sent him pornographic images and videos of a young girl via Discord. After identifying Harper as the owner of the account the content had originated from, police in the United States notified Australian authorities of their findings.
On September 15, 2023, police raided Harper’s home in Clayton South, Victoria, and seized his electronic devices. An examination of his cellphone found he had produced 77 files categorized as child abuse material between May and June of 2023. The female child in the materials was identified as Harper’s own 5-year-old daughter.
According to court records, Harper had been in an online BDSM relationship with the American pedophile, who encouraged him to sexually abuse his daughter in exchange for words of validation.
Harper sent the other man a range of images of his daughter, including of her naked, in the shower, and of him sexually posing with her. The court also details there were several videos of Harper kissing the child’s labia, naked buttocks, and licking her anal region. In one of these videos, Harper is heard asking the girl if she “likes it” to which the child clearly responds “no.”
From an analysis of the video and photo evidence, police determined that Harper had directly sexually abused the girl on at least 19 separate occasions in the course of just one month. The sexual abuse media was exclusively sent to the American, who Harper viewed as his “Master.” The man would then heap praise upon Harper, telling him how “impressed” and aroused he was by him, and calling him a “good girl.”
Despite being arrested for the serious crime in September of 2023, Harper was released on bail and was allowed to remain free throughout the duration of the trial.
Harper had shared custody of his daughter with his ex-partner, who only learned of the abuse after police notified her. In a victim impact statement, she spoke of the profound emotional toll the abuse had taken on her daughter, and stated that the child had begun inexplicably “acting out” around the same time the abuse would have started.
“Looking back, the behavioral issues all started from around the time that you were doing these things to her,” the girl’s mother said in court. “I’ve been through a lot in my life but this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. To have a child with someone and have your trust in them, even after breaking up and co-parenting, and then find out they’ve done these things … I am just constantly in fear, thinking if her own father could do this to her, what stops a stranger from doing the same? This has completely ruined my trust in others.”
During the trial, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Rajan Darjee was called upon to interview Harper and create a profile of his offending. Disturbingly, Darjee framed Harper as though he were a “female” who had been “pressured” by a male into committing the offenses.
“… This pattern of sexual abuse is one which a more dominant male pressurises, manipulates and/or coerces a female who has access to a child, usually her own, to sexually abuse that child and/or to make that child available to him to sexually abuse,” Darjee wrote in his report to the court, characterizing Harper as though he were a “mother” experiencing dire circumstances.
Referring to Harper using feminine pronouns, Darjee wrote: “She felt the man she connected with cared for and was nice to her, and due to her low self-esteem, lack of assertiveness, loneliness, submissiveness and desperation to be noticed and cared for, it was easy for him to pick up on her vulnerability and manipulate her into the master/slave relationship where he took control of her life. He then involved her in sexual exchanges and then coerced her to sexually abuse her daughter and take videos and photos to share with him. She was not inherently motivated by deviant sexual interests or any other motive, except doing what he told her and keeping him happy, to sexually abuse her daughter.”
Darjee told the court that Harper would not need any “specific interventions to prevent further sexual offending” and dismissed the need for sex offender treatment. He also denied that Harper had a paraphilic disorder, and argued that Harper had no sexual attraction to children.
Darjee further described Harper as “hormonally female” at the time of his offending.
Harper was represented by Isabelle Skaburskis, who identified herself as “Mx. Skaburskis” to the court. Notably, the defense claimed that Harper had “identified as female” since 2019, but photos of Harper from that year show he had a notably masculine appearance at that time.
Reduxx has also been made aware through a source close to the case that Harper had initially been charged under his birth name, suggesting that he only changed his legal identification during the course of the proceedings. Due to his criminal circumstances, he likely would have had to apply for explicit permission to pursue the change from the Secretary of the Justice Department.
Delivering the sentence on August 26, 2024, Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis highlighted Harper’s “gender dysphoria” and experiences with “transphobia” as mitigating factors, and appeared to accept the defense’s argument that he only committed the abuse to be “validated … as a woman and a sexual person.”
Judge Karapanagiotidis reviewed Harper’s “personal circumstances” prior to announcing the sentence, emphasizing that Harper’s mother had been “homophobic and hateful” during his upbringing, and disapproved of his early attempts to wear women’s clothing. She also noted that his ex-partner, the mother of the victim, had not fully validated his gender identity after he expressed it.
“Compounding matters, you had only started to transition in around 2021 and your gender identity was not fully accepted by those around you, including [ex-partner]. Your Counsel submits that at the relevant time you were ‘completely lacking connection in [your] life’ and were experiencing ‘pervasive feelings of rejection and lack of self-worth,'” the Judge stated.
Harper was ultimately sentenced to 4 years and 9 months imprisonment, a steep drop from the maximum 25 year sentence that was available. Prior to delivering the decision, Judge Karapanagiotidis noted that the sentence was lenient, noting: “the sentence that I am about to impose on this charge is lower than the standard sentence.”
He will be eligible for parole just 2 years and 6 months into his sentence.
Courts in this country have gone full third world.
Bear in mind, this was in Australia................
Sexual Abuse of a child??????
I don’t care whatever the f*ck IT calls itself, IT should have been sentenced to HELL.
No difference. Liberal courts the world over are destroying civilization. IMHO.
This would not happen in the third world
Gonna need a biologist to figure all this out.
Just shoot him/her/it/whatever...................
A decent human can only hope that justice will be served — hopefully without delay and painfully so — within the walls of an Australian prison.
I don’t know about Australian prisons, but in an American one he wouldn’t last 6 months.............
Screw hormones, you can fake those, what was his chromosomes? XY I am betting. Those cannot be changes and that is the argument that needs to be pushed in public, courts and with nutjob in forums.
No in most third world countries the freak would be beaten to a pulp by the relatives. But Australia is a ‘civilized’ country.
Pedophiles walk out of prison all the time in the US and go on to reoffend.
I know the idea of "prison justice" is comforting to some who know the justice system is letting them down but in reality, it rarely happens.
And when it does happen it usually ends up that they were killed for some other reason.
No, we're not. I understand enough to know the difference between a male and a female, and I'm not a biologist.
Judge Nola
Granted this is Australia but the judge ruled on hormones. Fine. Is this finally the scientific method to determine male/female? Sure would help out Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In Arizona, those kinds of perps are kept separate in their own prison.
https://corrections.az.gov/central-arizona-correctional-and-rehabilitation-facility-cacrf
Central Arizona Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility (CACRF)
1401 E Diversion Dam Rd
Florence, AZ 85132
United States
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 9400
Florence, AZ 85132
United States
Inmate Mail
Name, ADC #
P.O. Box 9600
Florence, AZ 85132-9600
Edward Coday
Warden Ed Coday
To contact the Warden’s office, please email ecoday@geogroup.com.
Central Arizona Correctional & Rehabilitation Facility is a medium-custody private prison in Florence, under contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry to provide custody and treatment for up to 1,280 adult male inmates who have demonstrated a need for sex offender treatment. The facility opened in December 2006, and is operated and managed by The GEO Group.
Programs
Work Crew
ACI upholstery shop
Education
Functional Literacy (Test of Adult Basic Education, or TABE)
Business Technology (WBE)
General Educational Development (GED)
Changing Offender Behavior (COB)
Domestic Violence
Culture Diversity
Conflict
Anger Management
Preparing for Release
Substance Abuse Education
Waste Water Treatment
Distance Learning (College)
Merging Two Worlds
Parenting
Money Management
Life Skills
Peer Education
Music Program
Continuum of Care
Peer-Led Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Course
Peer-Heating Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Course
Peer-Led English as a Second Language (ESL) Course
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Band Program
Peer-Led Veterans’ Affairs
Treatment & Self-Improvement Programs
Sex Offender Treatment Orientation
Sex Offender Pre-Treatment Foundation
Sex Offender Treatment Primary
Sex Offender Treatment Advanced
I had to stop reading because the people in the story are just so vile- the Aussie and American perps, the judge, the psychiatrist and maybe even the child’s mother are all reprobates and deserve to be thrown in the ocean with a millstone around their necks. May God protect this innocent young girl and heal her through the power of the Holy Spirit from the evil that was perpetrated on her.
Lord, come quickly.
A pedophile who abuses children and has gender dysphoria should absolutely be given special consideration, namely, make the hanging rope a foot longer.
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