A 40-year-old English woman has been charged with sexual assault for posing as a man for two years to her sexual partner in a ‘sophisticated deception’.
“I thought I was having sex with a man, who I have now found out is actually a woman, which I did not consent to,” the victim said in an interview with police, according to this the BBC reported on Tuesday.
Blade Silvano has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman she allegedly met online on Facebook, for allegedly hiding the truth about her gender from her.
According to what was reported at Cambridge Crown Court in England this week, the woman, who allegedly used the name Blade Mendez on social media and indicated that she was a man interested in women, snagged the eye of the victim.
In December 2016, the couple reportedly met and kissed for the first time, before meeting again to have sex.
“He always wore boxers. He never took them off. I never saw them take off,” said the victim, adding that she had never seen the accused without a sweater either.
She would have made her victim wear a blindfold during sex, moving her caresses away and using a sex toy to penetrate her, according to “The Telegraph”.
The pair reportedly had sex only twice, before starting wedding plans in December 2017, according to the British outlet.
It was not until September 2018 that the victim would have discovered the “sophisticated trickery” in which she had “unfortunately embarked” when seeing another Facebook profile of Blade Silvano appear on which she was indeed a woman, has related the crown prosecutor Michael Hillman.
For her part, the accused would have denied having met the victim in person, indicating in passing that “his gender had never been mentioned in the conversation”, she would have indicated to the court.