
Quebec triple killer ordered to remain in men’s prison despite identifying as female
MONTREAL — A Quebecer convicted last year in a domestic homicide that left a woman and two children dead must remain in a men’s prison despite identifying as a woman, federal corrections officials said Wednesday.
Mohamad Al Ballouz, who now uses the name Levana, was sentenced in December to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
In 2022, Al Ballouz murdered Synthia Bussières and the couple’s sons — five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac — in the Montreal suburb of Brossard. The killer, who was married to Bussières, was also convicted of arson for setting fire to the family condo.
Al Ballouz transitioned while in custody, and after being convicted asked to be incarcerated at the Joliette Institution for Women, northeast of Montreal.