Girl duped by man who was actually a woman..

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11853...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11851...

I heard about this on the radio this morning and can't find a thread about it.

I can only assume there's a lot that isn't being reported as the entire thing sounds so damned bizarre - I literally cannot understand how it could take place?

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Four Litre said:

The whole thing seems completely impossible, I still cant understand it even though I think Ive just explained it.

Exactly. I'm not trying to make a "funny" post because it isn't funny - I literally just cannot wrap my head around it based off what I've read.

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La Liga said:

es, it's a little more fundamental deceiving someone about your whole identify and gender!

Morally of course it is. In legal terms I'm genuinely asking how that would work?

Woolly hat, tape my bits down, make myself look like a man to get my end away.

Substitute that with expensive clothes, rent a flashy car each time I take her out, borrow a mates rich house, get my end away.

In the latter could I still end up in court?

I'm trying to understand the legal basis for the crime here?

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Baryonyx said:

This case sounds entirely like nonsense. The defence questions seem so blindly obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense that I just cannot believe the victim. How could you be so daft? Watching TV for hours at a time with a blindfold on? Scars? Get real.

That's why I'm not sure how it got to court - I thought there had to be a realistic chance of conviction etc.

If the jury take the view "How could she not have known it was a woman?" does that mean they automatically have to go with Not Guilty?

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Guilty.

I do still struggle with how you could possibly not know.

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8 years.

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Hosenbugler said:

Apparently the actions of the woman jailed have caused great psychological damage to her victim, damage which is expected to take years to recover from , if they ever do recover.

Taking that into account, its perhaps understandable as to why the judge handed down such a sentance, violence can psychological as well as physical.

For what it's worth I think anyone would agree with that, I'm simply struggling with the physics of how you could think it was a dude.

Easy to say when you've never experienced the real thing or a "prosthetic" one I guess - that sounds so wrong but YKWIM.