Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 22:56:36 GMT 7
Here's the link - and without comment, the story -
news.sky.com/story/1553066/woman-convicted-after-duping-friend-into-sex
A 25-year-old woman has been convicted of sexual assault after impersonating a man to dupe her female friend into having sex.
Over two years Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice and demanded the woman wear a blindfold when they met up.
Newland pretended to be a man called Kye Forturne and wore bandages across her chest and a swimsuit to fool the complainant, Chester Crown Court heard.
The pair had sex about 10 times until the woman, also aged 25, took off her blindfold and in disbelief saw Newland wearing a prosthetic penis.
The jury convicted Newland, from Willaston, Cheshire, of three counts of sexual assault. She was cleared of two other counts of sexual assault.
Judge Roger Dutton said the defendant had "serious issues surrounding her personality".
Addressing her, the judge said: "You have been convicted of serious charges. You must understand the consequences may be serious."
Newland shouted back in response: "How can you send me down for something I have not done?"
She tearfully repeatedly asked the question and then said: "I don't understand, I don't understand."
The judge told the court: "Sentencing guidelines are quite clear that imprisonment is inevitable but I need a good deal of further examination before I take that further step."
The defendant had admitted creating a fake Facebook account in the name of Kye Fortune, but she claimed her accuser always knew she was pretending to be a man.
Newland told the court that it was all part of role play because they both struggled with their sexuality.
In 2011, Kye Fortune, described as "half-Filipino, half-Latino", sent a Facebook friend request to the complainant.
The pair went on to talk for "hundreds" of hours over the phone.
The court heard 'Kye' told the woman he had been involved in a car accident and was then diagnosed with a brain tumour.
He claimed due to hospital treatment he could not meet up with the complainant in person.
Then 'Kye' "introduced" the complainant to his "best friend", Newland, and they met up in person and became close.
'Kye' and the complainant finally met up in February 2013. They went on to spend more than 100 hours in each other's company at hotels in Chester and the complainant's flat.
The woman said she would sit blindfolded as the pair watched TV and sunbathed together.
She told the court: "Every time I met up with Kye Fortune I either had the mask on already or he would wait outside the door and I would put it on.
"I was so desperate to be loved. It's pathetic, so desperate for love, so desperate.
"We were just lying there, just cuddling, sometimes we would watch films, sometimes we would just talk. It sounds stupid to say but it was a proper relationship, just normal."
She went on: "Since the first time I wrote to this person on Facebook, I thought it was a male.
"The first time I agreed to meet this person and agreed to have sex with them, I thought it was a male
"I told my friends I was engaged to a guy. I told my work colleagues."
The complainant told the court she was not attracted to women.
She said even though it sounded "sick" she would have preferred to have been raped by a man because she would have been able to rationalise it.
Newland's lawyers said the complainant's account was simply "impossible to believe".
news.sky.com/story/1553066/woman-convicted-after-duping-friend-into-sex
A 25-year-old woman has been convicted of sexual assault after impersonating a man to dupe her female friend into having sex.
Over two years Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice and demanded the woman wear a blindfold when they met up.
Newland pretended to be a man called Kye Forturne and wore bandages across her chest and a swimsuit to fool the complainant, Chester Crown Court heard.
The pair had sex about 10 times until the woman, also aged 25, took off her blindfold and in disbelief saw Newland wearing a prosthetic penis.
The jury convicted Newland, from Willaston, Cheshire, of three counts of sexual assault. She was cleared of two other counts of sexual assault.
Judge Roger Dutton said the defendant had "serious issues surrounding her personality".
Addressing her, the judge said: "You have been convicted of serious charges. You must understand the consequences may be serious."
Newland shouted back in response: "How can you send me down for something I have not done?"
She tearfully repeatedly asked the question and then said: "I don't understand, I don't understand."
The judge told the court: "Sentencing guidelines are quite clear that imprisonment is inevitable but I need a good deal of further examination before I take that further step."
The defendant had admitted creating a fake Facebook account in the name of Kye Fortune, but she claimed her accuser always knew she was pretending to be a man.
Newland told the court that it was all part of role play because they both struggled with their sexuality.
In 2011, Kye Fortune, described as "half-Filipino, half-Latino", sent a Facebook friend request to the complainant.
The pair went on to talk for "hundreds" of hours over the phone.
The court heard 'Kye' told the woman he had been involved in a car accident and was then diagnosed with a brain tumour.
He claimed due to hospital treatment he could not meet up with the complainant in person.
Then 'Kye' "introduced" the complainant to his "best friend", Newland, and they met up in person and became close.
'Kye' and the complainant finally met up in February 2013. They went on to spend more than 100 hours in each other's company at hotels in Chester and the complainant's flat.
The woman said she would sit blindfolded as the pair watched TV and sunbathed together.
She told the court: "Every time I met up with Kye Fortune I either had the mask on already or he would wait outside the door and I would put it on.
"I was so desperate to be loved. It's pathetic, so desperate for love, so desperate.
"We were just lying there, just cuddling, sometimes we would watch films, sometimes we would just talk. It sounds stupid to say but it was a proper relationship, just normal."
She went on: "Since the first time I wrote to this person on Facebook, I thought it was a male.
"The first time I agreed to meet this person and agreed to have sex with them, I thought it was a male
"I told my friends I was engaged to a guy. I told my work colleagues."
The complainant told the court she was not attracted to women.
She said even though it sounded "sick" she would have preferred to have been raped by a man because she would have been able to rationalise it.
Newland's lawyers said the complainant's account was simply "impossible to believe".
