A man in England who crossdresses to satisfy a transvestic fetish targeted teenage girls for sexual harassment, flashing his genitals at them and asking for their clothing.
Andrew Keen, 41, was sentenced at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on April 27 on an indecent exposure offense and two charges of causing harassment, alarm or distress.
As reported by Wiltshire 999s, Keen, while wearing women’s clothing, approached a lone 17-year-old girl outside his home on September 26, 2021. Keen then asked the girl to give him the clothes she was wearing, claiming it was for a “charity.”
After the victim declined, Keen asked her to sign his skirt using lipstick that he provided. As she bent down, Keen lifted his shirt to reveal his genitals hanging out of his skirt.
“Shocked, confused and scared,” the girl then agreed to let him take a photograph with her. He asked if he could place his arm around her, but she declined.
The next day, Keen targeted a 16-year-old girl outside New College. He approached her and asked, “Will you take your clothes off so I can have them?” before requesting her phone number. The victim reported the incident to police.
On September 28, Keen harassed a 17-year-old girl as she got off the bus on Queens Drive, near New College. He asked if he could borrow her clothes, then requested that she take her clothing off.
Frightened, she ran into the college and reported the abuse. In a statement to police, the victim said she is now “scared and anxious about going to college.”
Keen was active in online sissy and crossdressing communities and posted YouTube videos of himself dressing in women’s clothing. While he has now deleted his Twitter account, archived snapshots of his posts remain. Keen was frequently interacting with transgender pornography and age regression accounts — including those pertaining to the “adult baby diaper lover” community, where participants dress up like children or infants for sexual purposes.
In a tweet posted two weeks before his sexual harassment spree, Keen ogled over a photo of two underage girls, complimenting their pantyhose. In another tweet posted on the same day as his first offense, September 26, Keen responded to a stocking fetish account beloning to a trans-identified male. “No one can resist a girl in tights, I know what you want to do with me,” the post read.
During the hearing, Emma Thacker, defending, told the court that “he accepts he is a crossdresser, but as we all know, there’s nothing wrong with that.”
Chief magistrate Martin Clarke told the defendant that the court was considering a prison sentence, though he ultimately neglected to do so.
“We’ve been thinking long and hard about what to do with you … What’s worrying here is that you deliberately target certain young females, these are young girls, young ladies, very young,” Clarke said, continuing: “One of them has actually said she was shocked and confused, she didn’t have a clue what you were talking about.”
Clarke imposed a 24-month community order and banned Keen from going near both New College sites for 12 months. He will be monitored by a GPS device.
He must also complete 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days, 200 hours of unpaid work and register as a sex offender for five years.
Some research suggests that men with crossdressing fetishes, also referred to as transvestic fetishism, are more likely to be sexually violent as compared with other men.
A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that “fetishism and cross-dressing” are more often associated with sexual aggression than other paraphilias.
“… not only is transvestism associated with other paraphilias, it may go hand-in-hand with dangerous sexuality,” the authors wrote, noting that a 1989 study of serial sexual murderers found that 25% had engaged in cross-dressing, and 25% had engaged in acts of indecent exposure prior to committing an act of murder.
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