A pedophile has avoided jail despite being found with a collection of child sexual abuse materials. Dominic Mark Carter, who now goes by the name Sophie Louise Carter, appeared in court wearing all-pink during a sentencing hearing on August 29.
While still “identifying” as a man, Carter was visited by police in April of 2021 after officers received a tip regarding the potential distribution of pornographic materials involving children.
Carter resisted officers’ attempts to seize his devices, the Daily Echo reported, resulting in law enforcement being forced to “wrestle” his device away from him.
Several images were found on his phone, including two classified as Category A, a distinction reserved for the most severe type of child abuse content which can include images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal, or sadistic sexual acts.
Carter pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. During court proceedings, Judge Nicholas Rowland told him: “The reason that children around the world are subject to abuse and it is filmed is because people seek gratification. People like you get gratification from looking at those images.”
Carter’s defense attempted to mitigate using his own history of child abuse, noting that he had suffered “some degree of trauma.” His lawyer added that Carter had “longstanding issue with alcohol abuse” and had been abusing substances.
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Though he was prosecuted under his male name, Carter revealed he now identified as transgender during his sentencing. He was addressed by “she/her” pronouns in court and was referred to with the honorific “miss,” with his legal counsel stating: “Miss Carter has now separated from her now ex-wife… The root cause of the mental health issues is this case.”
The court handed Carter a six-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months. A suspended sentence is an alternative to imprisonment which requires the guilty party to adhere to certain restrictions and terms. Carter is being required to complete 60 rehabilitation activity requirement sessions and 120 hours of unpaid work.
He must also register as a sex offender and is subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years.
As he now declares that he identifies as transgender and is calling himself ‘Sophie Louise,’ Carter will likely be permitted to enter spaces reserved for women and girls, such as restrooms and changing rooms, unless otherwise expressly forbidden.
A representative for women’s rights group Standing For Women Hampshire expressed their concerns regarding the situation, drawing attention to the fact that crimes in countries which implement gender identity policies tend to record male crimes as having been committed by women.
“Once again we see the thing that never happens, a male sex offender claiming a female identity to mitigate his punishment. It’s beyond comprehension that the courts are falling for this nonsense,” the representative, who has chosen to remain anonymous, told Reduxx.
“We have serious concerns about how this man will be recorded, both in crime statistics and especially on the sex offender register. For the media to show such deference to the desires of a pedophile that they use his adopted name and she/her pronouns throughout their report is insulting and hugely disrespectful towards women and his very real victims,” she added.
In May, Reduxx spoke with a woman who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, only to discover that while incarcerated, he had adopted a transgender identity in an apparent bid to obscure his history of sexual offending.
Ceri-Lee Galvin, 24, was sexually abused for nine years beginning from the age of eight by Clive Bundy, and was only told of his new name and early release from prison with his expressed consent. Galvin emphasized that her predatory father’s false identity would grant him access to intimate spaces where girls are vulnerable or in states of undress.
According to recent figures from a Freedom of Information Request submitted by the BBC, over 700 sex offenders have gone “missing” since changing their names through the process of deed poll, which takes approximately 15 minutes to complete, in the period between 2019 – 2021.
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