Transgender woman charged with raping female inmates in Prison

A transgender woman serving at an all-female UK prison has been charged after she sexually assaulted four inmates at the facility.

According to The Sun, the convicted sex offender Karen White, 52, who was born a man and identifies as a woman, confessed this week to two counts of sexual touching at New Hall Prison, in Wakefield. But she denied the two other counts, according to the report.

All of the assaults happened last year, between September and November, prosecutors said.

During her hearing a Leeds Crown Court, she also pleaded guilty to the rape of a woman back in August 2003, when she went by her male name, Stephen Wood. 

She was also jailed back in 2001 for assault and gross indecency with a child.

The Sun also reported that in August she pleaded guilty to two counts of raping another woman between February and December of 2016. And during those periods she allegedly took advantage of more women.

In one of the assaults, White stood close to another inmate, touched her arm and exposed herself, prosecutor Charlotte Dangerfield told the court.

Her relationship with that inmate became inappropriate soon after she arrived at the jail, Dangerfield alleged, according to the report.

“The defendant would stand very close to her, touch her arm and wink at her,” the prosecutor said. “Her penis was erect and sticking out of the top of her trousers.”

In the second assault, she reportedly made comments about oral sex before placing a female inmate’s hand on her left breast, over her padded bra, the outlet reported.

Just days later, White allegedly pushed her hips and penis against another prisoner and in the most recent incident, she reportedly kissed an inmate on the neck, Dangerfield said.

White had initially told the court that she could not be guilty because she was not attracted to women and had been suffering from erectile dysfunction.

White who started identifying as a woman in 2014, was transferred to HM Prison Leeds, a men’s jail, after the alleged assaults.

Judge Christopher Batty adjourned her sentencing until Oct. 11 to gather victim statements and determine whether she posed any danger, according to the report.