A man who claimed he identified as a female and was put in a California women’s prison has now been moved to a male prison after he raped his female cellmate.
Tremaine Deon Carroll, 51, has been moved to a men’s prison as he faces two charges of rape and one of “dissuading a witness from testifying”.
One of Carroll’s alleged victims, Jane Doe, says she was attacked and raped in the shower at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The criminal complaint also mentions a second unnamed alleged victim.
Carroll is now at the male-only facility at Valley State Prison in Delano.
According to the first victim identified as Jane Doe, she fell victim to a “fully penetrative” assault in the showers in January 2024 at the hands of her new cellmate, Carroll.
The alleged attack has left her with crippling trauma and unable to shower for days at a time. Basic hygiene is now a “trigger” that brings the horror of her ordeal flooding back.
Jane Doe, who is in her thirties and just over five feet tall, was serving a short sentence for a burglary.
Sources close to her case say that after she asked prison authorities to change her cell, she opted to room with two fellow female prisoners and a self-identified transgender inmate, Carroll.
As a juvenile, Carroll was charged with theft and firearm possession offences in 1988 and 1989, according to court documents.
In 1990, as an adult, Carroll was arrested for involvement in the gunpoint kidnapping, robbery and sexual assault of two women.
Carroll was charged with three counts of “oral copulation,” the act of forcing a victim to perform oral sex, though these counts were eventually dropped.
Carroll pled guilty to only two counts of kidnapping and was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison.
After his release, Carroll — then age 25 — offended again in 1998 and was arrested and convicted for the robbery of a jewellery store.
That crime activated California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law, which mandates further penalties for offenders with three serious felony convictions.
Carroll was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years to life and has been locked up ever since.
Now, at 51 years old, Carroll is 6ft 2in tall and about 200lbs.
In mugshot photos, Carroll sports a thick black and grey beard and self-identifies as a trans woman, though has not undergone sex reassignment surgery.
Jane Doe claims Carroll began expressing sexual interest in her immediately after moving cells.
Carroll allegedly left her flirtatious notes. On the second day in the room, she claimed that Carroll propositioned her.
Jane Doe said she turned down all the advances.
But, less than 24 hours later, she claimed Carroll attacked her when she was alone in the prison shower and raped her.
Jane Doe was then hospitalized and, humiliatingly, kept in arm and leg chains as she was subjected to a pelvic exam, sources told DailyMail.
Upon her release from the hospital, she was segregated from the prison population, strip-searched and treated as if she were the predator because Carroll had alleged that she was the rapist instead.
Carroll now stands accused of two rapes — the alleged attack on Rebecca and another unrelated assault on an unidentified person around the same time.
Carroll also faces one charge of attempting to intimidate a witness to one of the attacks.
Women’s rights advocates said these allegations are a wake-up call to the California prison system, which has moved more than 44 biological male prisoners into all-female facilities since 2021.
Nearly 200 more applications for transfer are now under review.
