For the fourth time in less than a decade, a 34-year-old “transgender black woman” avoided prosecution after allegedly attempting to kidnap a child at a Colorado playground.
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The Centennial State’s competency laws were called into question late last week when the court ruled that charges would be dismissed against registered sex offender Solomon Galligan. The man, who claims to be a woman named Carmen, was deemed mentally incompetent by doctors, leading an assistant district attorney to assert, “the statute is insufficient to protect the public …”
As previously reported, considerable outrage followed expectations that charges would be dropped against Galligan for allegedly attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old boy in April 2024 at the Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado.
“Under the operation of the law, the court had no choice but to dismiss the case,” ADA Ryan Brackley of Colorado’s 18th Judicial District told 9News following the hearing. “This was a very rare case where someone was so mentally ill and found to be incompetent to the point where they medical health professionals said they could not be restored to competence.”
The attorney also spoke with the New York Post using language that affirmed the diagnosed schizophrenic and bipolar defendant’s gender confusion, stating, “Someone could ask that she be put into a more long-term, secure facility, but because the criminal case had to be dismissed, that’s not something that we have any control over anymore. And that’s why we find the statue deficient.”
“What we would like to avoid in this case … is the tendency for it to be a revolving door through the criminal justice system, into the civil justice system and back to the criminal justice system without any meaningful secure mental health treatment,” he added.
Galligan’s own attorney told 9News, “We recognize that there is a broken system in the state of Colorado,” while the man’s sister, Sarah Galligan, detailed the disorders that he’d been diagnosed with at age 16 to 9News in April 2024.
“It just really sucks he had to do something so eye-catching for everybody to see he’s not well, and he’s not OK to be out and be on his own,” she’d said at the time as her brother had supposedly avoided institutionalization because of a shortage of beds.
During the hearing, the judge indicated that over the “last 18 years in the last 23 competency evaluations,” the “chronic disorders” made Galligan “not restorable within the foreseeable future.”
“Given Galligan’s documented history of mental illness and previous criminal cases, we are hopeful they will remain in an in-patient treatment center for the foreseeable future,” a spokesperson for the DA’s office told the Post, at which point he could only be released if “a licensed professional notates that they believe Galligan is no longer a threat to the public or themselves.”
Meanwhile, the father of the 11-year-old victim, Dante White, who attended the hearing, spoke to the Post about life for his son and the other kids who were present after the attempted abduction.
“A lot of the kids were just constantly being vigilant, even at home. My son wouldn’t even go upstairs to, like, brush his teeth unless I was right there with him, and that’s not a way to live,” he explained as his son and other kids have undergone therapy. White also told the newspaper that Colorado’s mental health facilities lack “the funding and backing to continue to hold these people,” resulting in “habitual offenses.”
Word that the defense had made note of Galligan’s favor for “music, cookies, burritos, and animals” only further stoked outrage on social media over the “suicidal empathy.”
A lot of liberals think that deep down inside everyone, there’s a good person. I think they extrapolate from that, that these people deserve freedom over the safety of society at large.
— Tired (@horse_archers) August 11, 2025
Likes music, cookies, burritos and animals?
He also likes little boys.
Disgusting.— (@Tosirwithlove5) August 11, 2025
Ted Bundy also liked animals and cookies, why you went so hard on him?
— Knarf (@FrankInMatrix) August 12, 2025
This is why crime victims don’t trust the system, politicians get photo ops, criminals get second chances, and the public gets to be the test subject.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) August 11, 2025
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