The thing that “never happens” seems to keep happening!
A former elementary school teaching assistant in Oregon and self-proclaimed mentor to an 11-year-old child drag performer has been sentenced to 11 months in jail after being found guilty of 11 felony child sexual abuse crimes.
Last month, Kelsey Meta Boren, a 33-year-old biological male who has begun transitioning to female, pled guilty to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree after law enforcement found out he had been uploading child porn to the internet.
After striking a sweetheart deal with prosecutors, Boren will serve 330 days in county jail, just 30 days for each felony count.
Boren previously worked as a teacher for the Fern Ridge School District, in Oregon, but was fired and barred from stepping on school grounds and having contact with any of the students after the allegations came to light last year.
According to court documents, Boren told detectives that his need for child sex abuse content was like an “uncontrollable itch” that he “couldn’t stop.”
In August, Boren was arrested and, following a search of his home, police uncovered evidence that he had been uploading and exchanging child pornography on the internet.
“During the execution of the warrant, deputies discovered additional evidence indicating that Boren has utilized the internet on numerous occasions to distribute and exchange pornographic images of children,” reported the Lane County Sheriff’s Office. “Additional evidence was discovered indicating that Boren has also engaged in creating child pornography and uploaded it to the internet.”
Boren performed with the 11-year-old, Vanellope MacPherson DuPont, at a drag event in October 2022, two months after he was arrested, which was fiercely opposed by protestors.
Protesters faced off with supporters outside the venue, Old Nick’s Pub, which is named after Satan, and which also holds adult fetish nights.
The Post Millennial reported:
Kelsey Meta Boren, 33, was convicted in Lane County, Ore. on March 23 of 11 felony counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. A single charge of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct was dismissed as part of the plea deal. Boren was sentenced to 330 days in county jail—30 days for each felony count—in a sweetheart deal agreed upon between the district attorney’s office and her counsel.
“Our office must decide each case individually, taking into account the facts of the offenses, and the nature of the offender,” wrote Lane County Deputy District Attorney Robert Lane to The Post Millennial. “This case was assigned to me, and I made those decisions.”
Before being arrested, Boren worked as a teaching assistant for special education students at Veneta Elementary in Veneta, Ore. According to court documents, she told detectives that her need for child sex abuse content was like an “uncontrollable itch that she couldn’t stop.” The deputy district attorney told TPM her victims have no relationship to the school or children there.
This writer originally reported in October 2022 that Boren was one of the long-term “drag moms” to an 11-year-old child drag performer being featured at a Eugene leftist pub. A “drag mom” is a drag performer who teaches a younger or inexperienced person the tricks of the trade. Boren used the stage name “Alwaiz Craving” (always craving) and had been one of several adults grooming the child into drag performing since she was at least seven years old.
The Post Millennial cont.:
The two were close and the child even adopted part of Boren’s stage name into her own drag persona as “Vanellope Craving.” Photographs on the child’s Facebook show her being showered on stage with dollar bills and dressing in revealing outfits. “Vanellope” has CashApp and Venmo accounts where adults are encouraged by handlers to send cash.
Vanellope’s publicized performance on Oct. 23, 2022 at Old Nick’s Pub in Eugene drew criticism from conservatives and support from the far-left, including Antifa. The pub is used as a meeting location for the local Antifa cell, and the venue frequently hosts sexual fetish events. The pub stood by the event, saying it had already overcome being targeted by “white supremacists” before.
During the event, hundreds of violent Antifa members and far-left protesters acted as a militia security team outside the pub. There, they assaulted people and shut down traffic on the road. Video footage captured them assaulting a homeless man to the ground at one point. (Old Nick’s Pub did not respond to a request for comment.)
Boren was an LGBTQ+ activist and a local drag star in her own right but her prosecution and conviction has been ignored by the community she advocated for. Her social media account stated she held the prestigious drag title of “Miss Heart of Oregon” for local queer charity, the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Emerald Empire.
Jennifer Hibbs, another drag mom and handler for “Vanellope,” told TPM last year the child was never harmed by Boren, who was her friend.
“[Boren] obviously made horrific choices and she is no longer a friend,” Hibbs said at the time. “She had extremely limited time spent with Vanellope.” Social media photos show Boren had a relationship with the young child for nearly half her life.
