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British “Catfish” Sentenced To 8 Years For Sexual Assualt

Andy Kelvin—AP Gayle Newland was sentenced after she duped a female friend into having sex by pretending to be a man, on Sept. 9, 2015.

A British woman who pretended to be a man to have sex with a female friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault.

Prosecutors say 25-year-old Gayle Newland went to great lengths to create a male persona, setting up a Facebook account in the name “Kye Fortune.”
The pair spoke by phone over the course of two years and eventually met, with Newland persuading her friend to wear a blindfold.

The deception was discovered when the complainant removed her mask and saw Newland wearing a prosthetic penis.
Passing sentence Thursday, Judge Roger Dutton called Newland’s behavior a callous breach of trust.

Newland claimed her accuser always knew she was pretending to be a man, but a jury convicted her of sexual assault.

Source | Time Magazine

Rosa Parks Set It Off: Police Report

60 years ago Ms. Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus Dec. 1, 1955. It lead to a bus boycott and became a signal moment in the Civil Rights movement.