Transsexual spared jail time

LFPress.ca – By Jane Sims, Free Press Justice Reporter

A judge ruled incarceration would threaten the man’s safety.

A transsexual convicted last month of harassing his former spouse through e-mail was sent to jail for a day yesterday.

Michael Wilson, 45, would have been sentenced to a week in custody but Ontario Court Justice Gregory Pockele said jail would be “quite threatening” to Wilson’s safety.

Wilson — who would be processed by the jail, then released — is “not an appropriate candidate to be housed in the male population” and would likely have to be put in segregation, Pockele said.