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Tubbs, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this month to molesting the girl in a
women's bathroom Dec. 31, 2014, when Tubbs was 17

A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday ordered Hannah Tubbs, a transgender California woman, to serve two years in a juvenile facility after she
pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2014.

Before doing so, the judge criticized far-left District Attorney George
Gascon, whose office declined to prosecute the repeat offender as an
adult.

Tubbs, 26, recently pleaded guilty to molesting the girl in a women's
bathroom eight years ago when Tubbs was two weeks away from turning 18. At
the time of the crime, she identified as male and went by James Tubbs. She
did not identify as female until after she was taken into custody,
according to prosecutors.

"Tubbs is 26 years old. Unlike George Gascon’s false narrative, she is not
a ‘kid,'" L.A. Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, assigned to the
Complex Child Abuse Unit, told Fox News Digital.

"There was evidence presented at the juvenile proceedings which showed
that Tubbs sexually assaulted two young girls in different incidents in
the past. The child victims will suffer lifelong trauma. Tubbs also has
prior violent convictions and conduct as an adult."

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Prosecutors say Tubbs walked into the bathroom of a Denny’s in 2014 and
grabbed the 10-year-old by the throat, locked her in a stall, and put her
hand down the girl’s pants. Tubbs stopped when another person walked into
the restroom, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Because Tubbs began identifying as female after she was taken into
custody, and Gascon refused to try her as an adult, Tubbs was sentenced to
two years in a juvenile facility. In L.A. County, juvenile facilities can house both females and males, but in separate areas. Tubbs will be housed
with the females.

Two years is the maximum sentence for any juvenile in the new program over
the age of 25, according to Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna.

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The sentencing sparked criticism of Gascon, who had vowed to "immediately
stop prosecuting children as adults." Gascon has cited studies showing
brain development isn't complete until a person is 25 and contends
juvenile detention can rehabilitate young offenders.

The LA County Sheriff's office offered to house Tubbs in its county jail,
but Judge Mario Barrera ultimately "decided he did not have the authority
to issue an order housing Tubbs in county jail or with the sheriff's department," Sanna said, adding that the judge's "hands were tied."


Barrera reportedly blamed Gascon's policies for not transferring Tubbs to
an adult court during the court proceeding on Thursday.

"I want to be clear," Barrera during the Thursday sentencing in a
Lancaster, California, courtroom, according to the LA Times. "The filing
of a transfer motion is entirely within the discretion of the district attorney."

Barrera's "hands were tied," Sanna said. In the end, the judge "decided he
did not have the authority to issue an order housing Tubbs in county jail
or with the sheriff's department."

Kathryn Barger, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors,
called the outcome of the case "unsatisfactory" in a statement Thursday.

"Judge Barrera’s hands were tied today – due to the fact that the DA’s
office failed to file a motion to transfer Tubbs to adult criminal court,
which is where she rightly belongs," Barger said. "Instead, we’re left
with a 26-year-old individual sentenced to two years in a juvenile
facility in isolation, separated by sight and sound from the other
juveniles. "

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In a Jan. 18 letter to Barger, Gascon described Tubbs' conduct as
"deplorable."

"I am shocked and outraged that she evaded capture for so long. The harm
that she caused is irreparable. Tubbs has been ‘sentenced’ to our county’s secure treatment facility for youth (STFY)," the location of which "has
yet to be approved," Gascon wrote

He added that "all cases of adults returning to juvenile court will
continue to be flagged and reviewed for possible adult jurisdiction resolutions."

Tubbs was not linked to the case until 2019. Her DNA was entered into a database that year following an arrest on suspicion of battery in Idaho. Prosecutors filed charges against her for the 2014 assault case in 2020,
not long after Gascon took office.

Tubbs has previously been arrested for battery, drug possession and
probation violations in Idaho and Washington.

She has a pending misdemeanor case in Washington and was also accused of sexually assaulting a minor in Kern County, California, but the case did
not get prosecuted, according to the LA Times. Tubbs might also qualify as "developmentally disabled" and has multiple mental illnesses, the paper reported.

Gascon told the LA Times he was concerned Tubbs could be victimized in an
adult facility as a trans woman and said a probation report recommended
she be sentenced to home confinement. Prosecutors asked that Tubbs be kept
in custody for two years instead.

"Because of George Gascon's blanket policy against transferring any
juvenile to adult court, even if the 17-year-old rapes or murders an
innocent child, James Tubbs will not have to register as a sex offender,
will not spend any time in county jail or state prison, will be 26 and
housed with juveniles for a very short period of time, and will be
released with no probation or parole monitoring. The victims will get no justice. The public will get no safety," Hatami said.

He added that Gascon "has sacrificed the safety of the public, the rights
of the victim and justice in order to follow his own political ideology."

"It’s an injustice against all of us, especially the young victims,"
Hatami said.

Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/transgender-ca-woman-molesting-sentenced

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