Jasmine Hill (Credit: SWNS)

UK — Newport, Isle of Wight. A male drifter from Cornwall who identifies as a woman admitted to posing as a teenager on social media and persuading minors to send him images of themselves performing indecent acts. While awaiting trial on the charges, the pedophile claimed to have been raped by two male inmates. A thorough investigation determined that the rape allegations were lies intended “to further [the accuser’s] cause,” and the transgender inmate’s prison sentence was doubled.

Jasmine Hill was initially convicted as a juvenile in 2013 for inciting a male child to sexual activity and voyeurism.

He persisted with the behavior into adulthood, contacting teenage boys on Snapchat and WhatsApp, and connecting them to a Facebook profile on which he posed as a teenage girl. Using the facade of a minor girl, Mr Hill was able to groom the boys to send him increasingly explicit images of themselves. Mr Hill was arrested, and in 2015, he was convicted of inciting a child to be involved in prostitution or pornography. The court made an order barring him from contacting children online.

While in custody on the charges, Mr Hill claimed that a fellow male inmate raped him. Mr Hill, who identifies as transgender, has not yet undergone gender-affirming surgical procedures. Because he has not acquired a Gender Recognition Certificate, as allowed for under the UK’s 2004 Gender Recognition Act, he is not legally recognized as a woman, and must be held in a men’s prison.

A spot-check of Mr Hill’s phone in May 2016 produced evidence that he was still engaging in regular communications with underage boys, a violation of the sexual harm prevention order.

As the criminal case against Mr Hill was pending, he was held on remand at HMP Exeter. It was during this period that Mr Hill made a second accusation of rape, naming a different male inmate as perpetrator.

According to the transgender inmate’s detailed accounts, each of the men had violently raped him in his cell.

In February 2017, Mr Hill pleaded guilty to counts of inciting a child to perform sexual acts, breaching a sexual harm prevention order and possessing indecent images of a child. The court heard that confiscation of Mr Hill’s phone by law enforcement had not hindered him from grooming minors online.

A judge found that Mr Hill posed a substantial risk of significant harm to children, and sentenced him to four and a half years in prison. Mr Hill was transferred to a prison on the Isle of Wight, where he was held in a special wing with other transgender-identified inmates.

The men Mr Hill had accused of raping him in his cell were each placed under arrest. The men were interviewed, and subjected to intimate examination. The evidence cleared the men of the rapes, with CCTV footage verifying that the men were not in the vicinity of Mr Hill’s cell during the times he alleged the rapes occurred.

The transgender inmate, who had already begun serving out his sentence for crimes against children, faced Truro Crown Court by video link on February 20, 2018 to answer for rape accusations that investigators believed to be false.

Confronted with irrefutable evidence that the men could not have raped him, Mr Hill pleaded guilty to two charges of perverting the course of justice.

“Prison is a difficult environment when you are in a position where you are transgender pre-op,” Barry Hilliard, who represented Mr Hill, told the court. The solicitor presented as mitigating factors Mr Hill’s diagnoses of several personality disorders, and challenges he had faced during his childhood.

Judge Simon Carr told the defendant at sentencing: “I accept the very real challenges you faced in your childhood and the very serious challenges you have today, which for many would be met with sympathy. However, you are extremely manipulative and will fabricate stories that are simply not true, in order to further your cause. … Both of these offences are extremely serious and both require a period in custody of a considerable time.”

Judge Carr added four years to Mr Hill’s current prison term. Mr Hill is expected to serve out the extra four years in prison once he is deemed safe for release by authorities of the prison where he is currently being held for crimes against children.

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