A serial rapist serving a 167-year sentence for seven sexual assaults on women has begun claiming to be transgender while behind bars. Aaron Michael Pernell, who now refers to himself as “Arya Milan” Pernell, has initiated a civil rights complaint demanding transsexual surgeries in a bid to obtain “a fully sexually functional female anatomy” before an eventual transfer to a women’s prison.

On December 13, 2009, Pernell, then a Specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division, broke into the home of Maria Durden, a military spouse residing on base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Pernell, who was intoxicated at the time, then raped Durden in front of her child.
After being detained in January 2010, Pernell told investigators that “Jason”, a voice inside his head, instructed him to attack women. During questioning by Army CID agents, Pernell blamed his internal voice, saying : “I myself would not commit these crimes. The voice in my head makes me do bad things.”

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