41-Year-Old Woman Jailed In England Over Rape

• Tanya Lord jailed in England after raping sleeping man.

• Lord who is a lesbian was sentenced to 4 years prison term on March 10 after pleading guilty to the crime.

• According to the judge, there was no distinction between the crime and the rape of a woman.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a 41-year-old woman from Lancashire, England, was sentenced to four years in jail on March 10 for forcing a man to have sex with her while he was asleep. Tanya Lord, who is a lesbian, had pleaded guilty to the sex attack at her home in Co Armagh in an earlier hearing at Craigavon Crown Court.

During the sentencing, the judge emphasized that there is no distinction to be drawn between this and the rape of a female.

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He also dispelled the myth that males are less susceptible to the consequences of sex attacks, highlighting that the victim had been left mentally scarred and suspicious of people by his ordeal.

The victim, whose identity has not been revealed, received counseling and is still prescribed medication for his mental health. He has been left untrusting of people and feels alone unless he is with his children. In an impact statement, the victim urged others who have been abused to come forward and seek help.

Lord admitted causing the victim “to engage in sexual activity with you involving penetration of your vagina with his penis and that he did not consent to the sexual activity, and you did not reasonably believe that he so consented.” The court heard how Lord forced the victim to have sex when they shared a bed at her home.

The victim had been drinking all day and met Lord after she finished work on June 23, 2020. They went back to her house, had a few more drinks, and some food, and then went to bed, both wearing shorts. The victim believed that no sexual intercourse would take place because he understood that Lord was a lesbian.

However, in the early hours of the morning, the victim woke up and felt a pain across his chest. He regained his senses and realized that his boxer shorts had been pulled down to his knees, his penis was inside Lord, and she was “straddling him, bouncing up and down.” The victim pushed her off, and she pretended to be asleep.

The victim got up and went downstairs to process what had happened. He pretended to be asleep on the sofa when Lord brought his clothes down, but when she left the room, he got dressed and left the property. He then spoke to his mother and partner before reporting the incident to the police.

He was taken to a rape enquiry center where he had to endure an intimate examination, have swabs taken from his private parts, and be interviewed on video by specialist detectives. Those swabs, the court heard, helped form an overwhelming case against Lord. While she claimed there had been no sexual contact whatsoever, her full DNA profile was found on the victim’s penis.

When she was questioned, Lord “could provide no explanation” why her DNA had been found on intimate swabs. More than two years after the incident, with repeated delays and adjournments and an aborted trial, she finally confessed her guilt at the eleventh hour.

The prosecutor argued that the fact that the victim was asleep when he was attacked was an aggravating feature of the case. He submitted that there should be parity between male victims of sexual crime and female victims and affirmed that to do otherwise would affirm the myth that men are less affected by sexual assault than women.

Lord, who suffers from a personality disorder and has poor mental health, “has expressed remorse for her offending and some victim awareness,” according to her defense lawyer Michael Ward. “She understands the position she had put herself in and she expresses, through me today, her remorse and her apologies to the victim for the unfortunate and regrettable incident,” said the barrister.

In addition to the four-year sentence, Lord was ordered to sign the police sex offenders register for the rest of her life. The prosecutor said he could find no similar such case in the UK.

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