Police believe Barbie Kardashian poses a ‘significant threat’ to her mother as well as the wider public after she was released from prison on Wednesday after serving two years and six months
Transgender prisoner Barbie Kardashian has been released from prison despite police having “grave concerns” over what she might do next after threatening to rape, torture and kill her own mother.
Kardashian, who was born a male named Gabriel Alejandro Gentile but since changed name by deed poll and now identifies as female, was sentenced in March 2023 to five-and-a-half years with the final 12 months suspended. She served two years and six months of her sentence and walked free on Wednesday.
A jury found her guilty of seven threats against her mother at her trial. The court heard how she had planned to travel to her mother’s house, overpower her, and then rape and violently torture her with a screwdriver, knife and boiling water.
Kardashian served her sentence at Limerick Prison and is to be subject to a two-year post supervision release order previously imposed at Limerick Circuit Court. A detective told the four-day trial in March 2023, that gardai had “grave concerns” about the defendant’s “motivation to carry out the threats” against her mother, Irish Mirror reports.
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Speaking outside the jail, Kardashian insisted she was not a threat to the general public and was unrepentant about the threats she was convicted of making against her mother. Kardashian added that she would press ahead with plans to have surgery to have what she called female genitalia.
Detective Garda Niall Fitzgerald told the trial that it was the belief that Kardashian continued to pose “a significant threat” to her mother as well as the “wider public”. Kardashian was a resident at Coovagh House, a long term residential secure care facility in Limerick for youths aged up to 18 years who are considered to display high-risk behaviour, at the time of the offence.
The trial heard Kardashian told staff at the rescue care centre of her “chilling” plans to kill her mother in 2020. Kardashian provided staff members with reams of hand-written notes about being “driven” to rape and kill, apparently due to previously suffering “trauma” when a child. Kardashian, who is diagnosed with multiple personality disorders, and who has previously alleged to being sexually and physically abused as a child, was placed in State care aged twelve, on foot of a High Court Special Care Order.
A probation service pre-sentence report cited “major concerns that the accused is unrepentant about their threats to kill or cause serious harm to their mother”, Judge Tom O’Donnell said at the time. “The report concludes the accused is at high risk of not just re-offending, but also about committing serious crimes,” he added.
Judge O’Donnell said the court had a “major concern” about Kardashian’s movements after prison, with psychiatric assessments outlining there was a “real danger” Kardashian would follow through on “fantasies” of rape and murder. The probation report noted Kardashian’s “narcissistic tendencies and desire to be the centre of attention”.
Judge O’Donnell said Kardashian showed a “complete lack of remorse” and “high-level of venom” to the victim. It was said that Kardashian, who has 15 previous convictions, was of “enormous concern”.
Kardashian has agreed to reside at an address approved by both the gardai and the probation service; to notify the authorities of any change of address; and to provide details of any new relationships with third parties. In summing up, Judge O’Donnell said: “One can only hope that the relevant State agencies take heed of the stark warning contained in the probation officer’s reports.”
