There were fears the woman, who has severe learning disabilities and an IQ of 52, was repeatedly exploited during a two-month trial period this summer in which random men were permitted to visit her Manchester home between 10am and 4pm each day.
She was also taken to shisha bars and on numerous occasions had sex in public, including in a taxi and at the back of a bowling alley, because the carers paid by Manchester City Council to look after her would not intervene.
The National Autistic Society has called for “urgent lessons” to be drawn from the case, saying that while autistic people have a right to a sex life, “the responsibility to keep people safe falls on those in positions of care, like the courts, councils and support providers” and that “its essential safeguarding measures are followed meticulously”.
When she became a teenager, she developed an “obsessional interest” in men, particularly “from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds”.
The same year the woman met a restaurant waiter of Bangladeshi nationality and the pair married in 2016.
However, 12 months ago the woman is said to have embarked on a series of risky attempts to have sex with men she barely knew, sending them dozens of nude photographs of herself.
Over the next few weeks she had sex with at least six men in her bedroom and continued to seek sex in public. On one July night alone she left home and had sex with three men before police brought her back at 4.30am.
The woman’s husband was not informed of the court’s decision to allow his wife to have sex with men when he was not at her home and was said to have felt “devastated and betrayed” by the decision.
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