A federal judge ruled that the Indiana Department of Corrections must pay for an incarcerated baby murderer to turn his penis into an imitation-vagina, on the pretext that the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, requires it.
In 2001, 19-year-old Jonathan C. Richardson strangled his 11-month-old stepdaughter while her mother, Linda Thomas, was at work. He showed no remorse for the crime, later telling a prison official, “I killed the little [expletive, expletive].” He was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in prison.
“On the day he murdered my child, I personally observed plaintiff with a fresh bleeding tattoo of my child’s name on his arm,” recalled Thomas, who obtained a divorce soon afterward.
For nearly two decades, Richardson was housed as a male in a male prison without raising a fuss….
