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Woman posed as man to bed girl
By Liam Houlihan
December 1, 2004

CRIMES victims groups are angry a woman who disguised herself as a man to seduce a 15-year-old schoolgirl will not be jailed.

The woman was found guilty of nine charges of sexually penetrating a child under 16 - potentially attracting a jail term of up to 90 years.
But she walked free last month with a suspended sentence and a community-based order.
The schoolgirl victim is devastated. And crimes victims groups are lobbying the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal against 'a ridiculously soft decision'.
The case arose from a sexual relationship between a woman, 22, and the schoolgirl in a Victorian provincial city.
The County Court heard the affair lasted 2 years, but ended when police told the schoolgirl her lover was a woman.
Neither party can be identified.
The sentencing judge took into account a psychiatrist's opinion that doing time in a women's jail would cause the woman 'considerable emotional distress' because she considered herself a man.
But victims groups are furious. 'What about the victim's considerable emotional distress?' said victims advocate Noel McNamara who vowed his group, the People's Sentencing Advisory Council, would pressure the DPP to appeal against the sentence.
An Office of Public Prosecutions spokesman said a decision had not been made whether to appeal.
The nine charges related to one instance of oral sex and eight where a sex toy was involved.
The court heard the relationship came to an end last year in 'acrimonious circumstances' with both parties taking out intervention orders.
The DPP has two weeks to lodge an appeal.

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