Sex charges woman who posed as boy gets probation

A woman has been put on probation for three years after she admitted being sexually intimate with two teenage girls after telling them she was male.

Lord Bannatyne said Christine Wilson’s case was “clearly exceptional” as he sentenced her at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Wilson, 26, from Aberdeen, previously pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud.

During a two-month period in 2008, Wilson told a teenage girl she was a 17-year-old boy called Chris. She also told a second teenage girl she was male on various occasions between March and August 2010.

The court heard Wilson has a gender identity disorder.

Lord Bannatyne said: “These are very unusual offences. The case is clearly an exceptional one.”

Commenting on Wilson’s disorder, he said: “I accept that this leads you to genuinely feel you are male rather than female. This significantly lowers your culpability.”

Lord Bannatyne said that while the offences are serious, “having had regard to all the circumstances I believe they can be dealt with by an non-custodial sentence”.