A trans inmate jailed in a women’s prison for child sexual assault is being kept in solitary confinement and is no danger to other prisoners, her lawyer has said.

Women’s rights advocates and the Victorian Liberals are calling for the transfer of Hilary Maloney, a court imposed pseudonym, to a men’s prison to serve the remainder of a 2½-year minimum term for abusing her five-year-old daughter and sending the videos to an overseas paedophile in 2023.

But Maloney’s defence lawyer, Isabelle Skaburskis, told this masthead her client would face serious risks in a men’s prison.

“[Ms Maloney] has been in solitary confinement for 13 months, which is a form of torture under international law,” Skaburskis said. “If she were moved to a men’s prison, she would almost certainly be physically or sexu

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