JK Rowling has revealed how a virtue-signalling paedophile, who has now been jailed for 24 years for r@ping a 12-year-old boy, harassed her over her transgender views.
The 59-year-old Harry Potter author lashed out online after Stephen Ireland was sent to prison for his depraved abuse of the “vulnerable” schoolboy.
Ireland, 42, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, r@ped the boy after luring him to the flat he shared with co-defendant David Sutton and plying him with drugs.
The s£x predator had arranged to meet the boy, referred to in court as Child A, after linking with him on homos£xual dating app, Grindr in April 2024.
However, four years before Ireland went on to molest the boy, he had been on Twitter abusing Rowling for her views on the transgender community.
JK Rowling has insisted that transgender women are not women and should not be allowed in women’s spaces and women’s sports. She has also insisted that natural-born women should be called women, not “people who menstruate” in a bid to include transwomen.
In a post aimed at Rowling, Ireland raged: “How to ruin a legacy… become a TERF! Very disappointing JK!
“What happens when women enter menopause? What about women who had hysterectomies? Women who don’t menstruate because of hormonal issues? Are they not women? Nothing YOU say stops Trans Women from being Women.”
Now, after Ireland was jailed alongside Sutton, 27, who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years, Rowling wrote: “Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child r@pe.”
Ireland was sentenced to 24 years in prison, not 30, as Rowling had claimed in her post on X.
Guildford Crown Court heard the boy, who had been reported missing at the time of his r@pe, told police he had s£x with Ireland in his flat.
The victim said they also smoked a bong which was later found to have contained methamphetamine, and that pornography was played on a laptop.
Judge Patricia Lees, sentencing at Guildford Crown Court on Monday, June 30, told the hearing Ireland “took advantage” of a vulnerable child.
She said: “Stephen Ireland is a man who prided himself on being versed in and highly alive to the vulnerabilities of young people linked to the Surrey Pride organisation he was at the time pivotal to.
“A (the victim) was quite obviously to any adult an extremely vulnerable child who was highly sexualised.
“Any responsible adult would have quickly appreciated that there was a high likelihood A is a young man who had been the subject of sexual grooming by adult men at a very early age and been concerned for him instead of taking advantage of him.”
The court heard the boy had initially told Ireland he was aged 17 – but when he later claimed to be aged 13, Ireland replied: “OK – we just have to keep it a secret.”
“Your response was telling,” Judge Lees told Ireland.
“Far from finding that repugnant, you found that exciting, and sought to do it again.”
In a Telegram chat that took place after their encounter, Ireland sent Child A a message in which he described his age as “naughty and kinky,” the court heard.
On the same day, Ireland asked the boy if he would have a threesome and sent the child pictures of himself and Sutton.
Jurors heard that Ireland sent a picture of Child A to Sutton, describing him as a “14-year-old baby” who “wants to play with men’s bodies,” and the pair exchanged messages about the child.
Ireland along with Sutton, who was a volunteer for Surrey Pride, were found guilty of a string of s£xual offences against children including voyeurism, arranging commission of a child s£x offence, and possession of prohibited images of children, after a trial at Guildford Crown Court earlier this year.
JK Rowling added Ireland was not the only s£x offender to now find themselves behind bars after berating her online for her trans-critical views.
“[Sutton] follows in the footsteps of trans-identified man Lexi Secker, who also sent me reams of abuse on here, especially for my belief that women should have single-s£x spaces and r@pe crisis centres. Mr Secker has since been sentenced to six and a half years in jail for r@pe,” she wrote on social media last night, June 30.
Secker was obsessed with the Harry Potter creator and slammed other women, including MP Rosie Duffield, who have spoken out on trans issues.
The father-of-two, whose birth name was Alexander, lashed out on social media attacking the high-profile figures who have waded into the trans row.
