Male Child Molester Housed in Women’s Prison under Investigation for Sexually Harassing Female Cellmate

A male child molester currently being housed in the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) has repeatedly sexually harassed a female inmate who is herself a victim of child rape, the victim, Mozzy Clark-Sanchez, told National Review. 

Prison officials recently notified Clark-Sanchez that her 2022 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) case against transgender-identifying inmate Christopher Williams has been referred to the state police.

PREA cases are referred to police when the allegations appear to be criminal in nature, according to Department of Corrections (DOC) policy. Asked for comment, the Washington State Patrol confirmed they are currently investigating the case, but no charges have yet been filed. 

During the pandemic, Williams, who identified as a woman but has no known female name, asked to be housed with Clark-Sanchez, claiming his roommate was bullying him. But once they were placed together, Williams started making lewd comments toward her. 

“I’d be sitting on my bunk and he’d lean over me and he’d be like, ‘I hate it when it fills up with blood,’” talking about having an erection, Clark-Sanchez said. 

On at least three occasions, Clark-Sanchez woke up to Williams sitting next to her bed. On another occasion, Clark-Sanchez woke up to find Williams’s hand under her blanket touching her, she said. A prison guard busted him in the act and scolded him to get back in his bunk. 

“When I startled awake, I felt . . . Christopher jerk his hand out from in my pants, and underneath my blankets,” Clark-Sanchez said. “I was in shock. It took me back to my childhood.”

Another time, Williams brought a strap-on dildo into the room and asked her to use it on him, she said. 

Williams routinely made predatory remarks toward her, such as, “All these girls want this, I don’t know why you don’t,” she said. 

A major complaint among many female inmates at WCCW, colloquially known as Purdy, is that the shower stalls in the prison bathrooms don’t ensure privacy from the male inmates, who tower above the women. 

“They’re so tall, they’re like 6′ 4″,” another female inmate, who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, told National Review. 

“Our shower stalls don’t go up to our heads,” she said. “And the bathroom stalls, same thing. A bunch of women, when they’re in the showers, these people are just standing there. They don’t have to stand on their tippy toes and they look over and see everything. People were so uncomfortable. You feel kind of like you’ve been violated.”

Williams has repeatedly leered at the women while they’re showering.

“They’d stand up from going to the bathroom, all they have to do is turn their head like a giraffe and look down,” the female inmate said. 

Clark-Sanchez said Williams peered over at her while she was naked taking a shower. On one occasion he threatened, “I can get you when I want,” 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.

“I was raped by my uncle, and my mom used to sell me to pay for drugs,” she said. 

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.

Now, she’s reliving her trauma all over again with Christopher Williams, who she said reminds her of her abuser. 

In 2022, Clark-Sanchez filed a PREA case, alleging that Williams engaged in sexual misconduct against her. Prison officials told her that her claims of sexual harassment were substantiated, she said. Williams is now in a single room separated from the other inmates. 

“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.”

Asked for comment, the DOC said that “Prison Rape Elimination Act cases and any accompanying investigations are confidential. But we can say that DOC takes all allegations of sexual assault seriously and follows PREA standards to ensure the humane treatment of all incarcerated individuals in our custody.”

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’s still intimidating Clark-Sanchez, she said. He has purposefully blocked exits to prevent her 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 in 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.