Child Molester Awarded $2.5 Million in Attorney’s Fees After Idaho DOC Delayed Transgender Surgery

A former inmate in the Idaho Department of Corrections has been awarded millions in attorney’s fees after the state did not immediately agree to pay for transgender surgery.

Back in 2011, Adree Edmo, formerly known as Mason Dean Edmo, molested a 15-year-old boy while the boy was asleep. Edmo pled guilty to sexually abusing a minor under the age of 16 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Within the next few years, Edmo began to struggle with gender identity. By 2017, Edmo had sued the state for violating Edmo’s Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment because the state had not paid for transgender surgery. In 2018, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled in favor of Edmo and ruled that the state DOC must provide Edmo with the “gender confirmation” surgery, which she deemed “medically necessary.”

However, the surgery was delayed yet another two years because the state opted to appeal the ruling rather than provide the surgery. Eventually, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld nearly the entire ruling, and Edmo received the surgery in 2020, making Edmo just the second U.S. inmate in history to receive the surgery while still incarcerated. Following the procedure, Edmo was transferred to a woman’s prison and released in 2021. (Read more from “Child Molester Awarded $2.5 Million in Attorney’s Fees After Idaho Doc Delayed Transgender Surgery” HERE)

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