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A convicted transgender child molester pleaded not guilty in a California courtroom Thursday to murdering a member of a survivalist transient group amid lingering controversy about her lenient sentence in a sexual assault assault in Los Angeles County.
Hannah Tubbs, 26, faces a number of costs in Kern County, together with first-degree homicide, assault on an individual with pressure and nice bodily damage and stopping or dissuading a witness by menace or pressure. A court docket listening to on the case might be held July 8 and a jury trial is slated to start July 18. Any motions filed on the case might be heard June 30, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office informed Fox News.
Tubbs stays locked up on $1 million bail in connection to the April 2019 beating demise of Michael Clark. Until May, Tubbs was serving a two-year sentence in a juvenile facility after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon declined to prosecute Tubbs as an grownup for a 2014 sexual assault assault on a younger woman.
The assault occurred when Tubbs was a number of weeks shy of turning 18. The case drew a heap of criticism on Gascon, who carried out a coverage of prohibiting youthful offenders from being tried as adults. Tubbs later bragged bout the sunshine sentence on a jailhouse cellphone name about not being required to register as a intercourse offender as soon as launched.
HANNAH TUBBS, TRANS CHILD MOLESTER, HAD STRING OF OFFENSES BEFORE ARREST FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF GIRL
Hannah Tubbs started figuring out as feminine after being arrested final 12 months in reference to a 2014 child molestation case in Los Angeles County. Tubbs pleaded not guilty Thursday to an April 2019 homicide in close by Kern County.
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The authentic prosecutor assigned to that case beforehand informed Fox News that Tubbs had behavioral points whereas in juvenile custody and will have been launched as early as June.
“Very not often is Tubbs in compliance with something,” Shea Saana stated. “And now we’ve an especially violent, harmful, unremorseful child predator on the verge of being launched, and my boss does not care.”
During a Kern County court docket listening to final month, a number of witnesses testified that Tubbs admitted to beating Clark with a rock.
Kern County Sheriff’s Sgt. Steven Davis testified that witnesses informed him Tubbs stole cash from Clark and that the 2 had a verbal argument on the night of April 20, 2019. The following day, the 2 people went for a stroll and solely Tubbs returned, KGET reported.
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Two campers informed authorities the Tubbs hated Clark. Tubbs additionally allegedly threatened to kill one of many witnesses if he talked about what occurred to Clark.
Fox News’ Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.
