A female former inmate sued the Washington state department of corrections last week for housing her with a transgender-identifying male child molester who allegedly sexually assaulted her in their shared room.
The victim, Mozzy Clark-Sanchez, who herself is a victim of child rape, detailed the trauma of living with Christopher Williams at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, colloquially known as Purdy, in an August interview with National Review.
"In their cell, Ms. Clark was on the bottom bunk," the federal lawsuit alleges. "Mr. Williams . . . would hover menacingly over Ms. Clark's bunk with an erection while touching himself. He would also display his erection to Ms. Clark against her will, and gesture towards it, saying how much he wanted her."
"One night, Ms. Clark woke up and saw inmate Williams sitting on the floor next to her bed with his arm under her blanket, rubbing her genitals," the lawsuit adds.
Clark-Sanchez previously told National Review that she was raped by her uncle and that her mother used to sell her to pay for drugs.
Clark-Sanchez's mother left her with her uncle knowing he was abusing her, she said. At five years old, "he cut me down there so he could rape me," she said. In order to give birth, Clark-Sanchez had to undergo an episiotomy, she said. Child Protective Services eventually took Clark-Sanchez away from her mother.
Another time at Purdy, Williams brought a strap-on dildo into the room and asked her to use it on him, she said previously.
Williams routinely made predatory remarks toward her, such as, "All these girls want this, I don't know why you don't," she said.
Clark-Sanchez woke up once to find that her shirt had been pulled over her breasts. She said she believes Williams touched her in her sleep. To help with night terrors from her traumatic childhood, Clark-Sanchez took medication that put her in a deep sleep.
Clark said the prison guards didn't take her complaints against Williams particularly seriously. However, in 2022, Clark-Sanchez filed a case under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, alleging that Williams engaged in sexual misconduct against her. Prison officials told her that her claims of sexual harassment were substantiated. Williams is now in a single room separated from the other inmates, still at Purdy.
"They moved him out of the room, and they found literally a bag of d***s," the female inmate said. "A bunch of homemade dildos that this dude made."
While Purdy moved Williams out of her cell, he continued to intimidate Clark-Sanchez and try to cross paths with her at the facility, including in the showers and bathroom, according to the lawsuit.
"He also started threatening her with violence if she complained about him again," the lawsuit said.
Clark-Sanchez is demanding restitution from the state for "extreme emotional distress, shame, intimidation, humiliation, indignation, embarrassment, and fear."
At 16 years old, Williams sexually assaulted his nine-year-old sister by rubbing her buttocks and vaginal area over her clothing. Williams was arrested and originally charged with first-degree child molestation in 2006 and pleaded guilty to third-degree assault with sexual motivation, according to police reports obtained by National Review.
"Chris said that he knew what he did was wrong but he could not help it," the report read. "He said that his hormones were acting up. Chris said that [the child] was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt."
In conversation with the investigator, Williams's father said that Williams had first molested his sister three years earlier, when she was around six years old. Williams was arrested but never charged with the initial crime because he went to live in a counseling center in Utah, where he spent two years and eight months before he was released, his father told the officer.
After being convicted, Williams was required to register as a sex offender, but he didn't report to the sheriff's office where he resides. He was convicted in 2009 and 2010 of failing to register as a sex offender, a class C felony.
Even though Williams is now housed in an isolated part of the prison, he has purposefully blocked exits to prevent Clark-Sanchez from leaving, has found excuses to cross paths with her in the prison, and has generally followed her around, often glaring at her.
Williams is currently serving a 342-month sentence, at Purdy, for a first-degree assault he committed in 2012 in a domestic-violence case. In June 2012, he assaulted his girlfriend, hitting her on the head with a pipe, according to a Washington DOC employee with knowledge of his criminal record. Williams was transferred to the women's prison after the conviction.
Before moving to Purdy, Williams was at a men's corrections center, where, in September 2012, he allegedly assaulted a male prison officer to the point that the officer was rendered unconscious, according to a declaration of probable cause obtained by National Review. Williams admitted to the confrontation, in which he used his fists and elbows to strike the officer multiple times, leaving blood all over him and a gash in his head.
"Williams stopped when he heard [the officer] 'screaming like a little baby,'" the report said. "He described [Officer] Barrett's screams 'like a death scream.'"
The officer's injuries included damage to his ear, which had to be cut open to relieve swelling, broken bones under his right eye, a gash on the right cheek needing extensive stitching, a knocked-out tooth, a nose so severely damaged it required emergency surgery to reconstruct. For that crime, Williams was convicted of second-degree assault.
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