A polyamorous man who worked with a children’s mental health charity has been found guilty of sex attacks on two women in Scotland. Morgan Prior, 33, had been featured in a BBC documentary on polyamory in an effort to raise awareness and support for the lifestyle.
Prior was remanded into custody after his hearing on Monday, during which the Dundee court judge stated that it was not “remotely conceivable” that a non-custodial sentence will be assigned.
“You have been convicted of two charges. One is serious and the other is very serious… You have been convicted of offenses which will inevitably result in a significant period of custody,” The Times reports the judge as saying.
“I cannot allow you to maintain your liberty, you will likely face a lengthy period in custody,” the judge continued, noting that Prior would be enrolled to the Sex Offenders Register.
Following the guilty verdict, Prior’s three polyamorous partners began bawling in the courtroom.
The convictions come after Prior was handed two charges, one of rape and one of indecent assault on two separate women. Four additional charges, which included attempted rape and an indecent assault on a 16-year-old girl, were dismissed.
Prior was initially called before court on the charges in 2021, but had been out on bail since.
In 2018, Prior and his “throuple” were featured in a BBC report on polyamory in which he stated a former female partner had introduced him to the lifestyle,” he said. “Lots of communication, a little more sex.”
In the accompanying article, one of Prior’s partners called him a great “emotional communicator.”
The day of his conviction, Prior posted a link to the BBC article, saying that he was “glad to still be living a genuine life. I’m proud to say that I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”
“When I mention that to some people they are quite surprised because they think open relationships, polyamory, that’s clearly the man’s idea because it’s lots of sex, right?”
At the time of his conviction, Prior worked as a health counsellor for Place2Be, a children’s mental health charity which operates in schools.
According to the charity’s website, Place2Be is a “pioneer in early intervention” which helps schools “understand and identify mental health problems, enable children and young people to focus on learning and give them tools to cope with challenges throughout their lives.”
Prior was also a men’s rights activist, and regularly posted about men’s “societal issues” on his Facebook.
In a post from November of 2022, Prior noted that he had an annual tradition of linking to a documentary called The Red Pill, which purports that society is biased against males.
Amongst Prior’s grievances were the fact that, in the United Kingdom, the legal definition of “rape” requires the perpetrator to have penetrated the victim with his penis.
“The legal definition of rape requires that the perpetrator have a penis and use he/him pronouns, meaning that only cisgendered men can be charged with rape. This erases male victims of female perpetrators,” Prior complained in the post.
“Confusingly, the gendered wording is often justified by claiming that ‘*most* rapes are carried out by men,’ sometimes even with percentages, despite the wording of the law making men 100% of the perpetrators,” Prior continued, ostensibly referring to trans-identified males who have been convicted of rape in the United Kingdom and using them as evidence that a female perpetrator could be convicted of penetrating a male victim.
Prior was also known in the medieval reenactment community, and regularly participated in medieval fairs.
Prior’s sentencing has been deferred until July 18.
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