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Thursday’s TIMES: “Autistic woman ‘pimped out’ in care scandal” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday
This is copy of some of the article if you can't read it from the image:
Austistic Woman ‘pimped out’ in Care Scandal.
A young autistic woman was allow to have sex with numerous men because her carers were said to believe that high-risk encounters with strangers might help her to “learn from her mistakes”, it can be revealed today.
The woman 23, who has severe learning disabilities and an IQ of 52 was repeatedly exploited during a court approved, two month trial period this summer in which random men were permitted to visit her Manchester care home between 10am and 4pm each day.
She was also taken to shisha bars and had sex in public on numerous occasions, including in a taxi and at the back of a bowling alley because the care company paid to look after her would not physically intervene. In August carers reported that the woman was “offering her telephone number to any number of Asian males” with whom she came into contact. She “doesn’t always recognise them when they arrive at the door and they sometimes don’t recognise here”.
The sexual activity was brought to an end after two months. Last month, in a report to the court, a psychiatrist warned that allowing her to continue to be exposed to such a “high level of risk” was unacceptable, unprofessional and might lead to “sexual abuse, violence, injury or death”.
I note might be despite what had already happened.
The article then goes on to mention that the woman concerned has been under the Court of Protection whose role it is to safeguard vulnerable adults who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves since she was 18.
And the court report said, she might lead to, as in future tense, sexual abuse.