They Condemn A Woman For Impersonating A Man

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A woman was sentenced to six years in prison this week in Britain after being found guilty of cheating on a friend by posing as a man in order to have sex.

A Manchester court jury last June issued a guilty verdict against Gayle Newland on three sexual assault charges involving penetration of a bizarre case that has fascinated British public opinion and has been covered extensively in the media.

"The truth is stranger than fiction," Judge David Stockdale admitted when reading the sentence, according to the BBC. "The truth, the whole truth, this time is as surprising as it is disturbing."

This is the second time that the 27-year-old is found guilty of sexual assault in the same case, after another court in 2015 convicted her of the same crimes. However, the appeals court invalidated the verdict, which led to a second trial.

According to authorities, Newland acquired an online male personality called Kye Fortune to seduce a fellow student - whose identity was not revealed - at Chester University in September 2011.

After making contact through the networks and establishing a relationship at a distance, the victim agreed in February 2013 to meet with Kye, who put on the strange condition that he blindfold himself with the explanation that he had been disfigured by a accident and was recovering from the removal of a tumor.

The girl agreed to the request to literally go blind to appointments, and when she noticed the intimate that Kye was wearing a bandage on her chest, she told her that it was due to her health problems.

The elaborate plan included the use of a prosthetic male sexual member, with whom he had sexual intercourse. Throughout these encounters, in which in addition to maintaining intimate relationships, they walked together, sunbathed or "watched" movies, the victim always remained blindfolded, the Guardian newspaper noted.

The young woman was "perhaps naive, looking at it now," admitted prosecutor's attorney Simon Medland.

The deceiver was exposed in June 2013, after months of physical relationship, when the girl in the middle of an intimate encounter tore off the bandage and discovered that Kye was actually her friend Gayle with bandaged breasts and a "prosthetic penis with testicles"

In her defense, the accused assured that her classmate knew she was a lesbian and that they maintained that relationship by adopting a masculine role in a consensual way, without teasing. He also noted that the other young woman had an internal conflict about her sexual identity.

The defense also argued that no one could be misled by the fake penis, which became one of the key pieces of evidence in the case and that the jury was brought in to examine it in its deliberations.