A young autistic woman was allowed to have sex with strangers at her care home to ‘stop her obsession with men’, it has been revealed.

Numerous men exploited the 23-year-old, who is among the ‘small percentage of women with autism whose obsessional interest relates to men, particularly Asian men’ at her Manchester care home during a two-month trial – approved by a court.

The trial has now ended after a psychiatrist warned that allowing her to continue could lead to ‘sexual abuse, violence, injury or death’, according to documents released to The Times, after a court order.

The young autistic woman was allowed to have sex with strangers to ‘learn from her mistakes’ (Picture: Getty Images)

Her family has accused the authorities of ‘pimping out a highly vulnerable young woman’.


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The woman, who has severe learning disabilities and an IQ of 52, could have visitors every day between 10am and 4pm, but was also taken to shisha bars and had sex in public.



Her carers were not allowed to physically intervene.

Staff at the home reported in August that the woman was ‘offering her telephone number to any number of Asian males’ but that she didn’t always ‘recognise them when they arrived’ and ‘they don’t always recognise her’.

She has been under the direction of the Court of Protection since she turned 18.

The 23-year-old was taken to shisha bars and had sex in public (Picture: Getty Images)

The court papers said the woman had a troubled childhood with concerns she had been subjected to ‘sexual violations and rapes’ while she was a child.

Which resulted to an increased interest in particularly ‘men from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds’ in her teens.

A judge ruled she was able to consent to sexual activities but lacked the capacity to ‘make decisions on her contact with men’, in 2015.

A year ago, the woman started to seek out sex in public and a physiologist employed by the care home believed it was in her best interest to give her ‘unsupervised contact with men’.

The council hit back saying that would ‘inevitably expose her to a very significant risk of sexual harm, violence, abuse and trafficking’.

The case has been taken to the high court (Picture: Getty Images)

Judge Jonathan Butler allowed Engage Support to let the woman ‘have sexual relations with others during daytime hours’.

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He ordered carers to not intervene if she had sex in public but ‘remain present during such acts’.

According to Times journalist Andrew Norfolk who viewed the papers, the woman had sex in public with three men in one night in July before police brought her back to the care home at 4.30am.

The woman was allowed to marry a restaurant waiter she met in 2015, and the couple was allowed privacy when he visited.

The husband was said to not have been told of the trial and said he felt ‘devastated and betrayed’.

The woman has now been moved to a different care home and the case has gone to the High Court.

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