Trans rapist previously jailed for having sex with girl, 15, as a man

EXCLUSIVE Revealed: Transgender woman who faces being jailed in male prison for raping friend was previously convicted of having sex with 15-year-old girl when she was a man

• EXCLUSIVE: Lexi-Rose Crawford had sex with underage girl when she was a man 
• The perv was a biological man called Dominic Risden when he was jailed in 2017
• Crawford, 18 at the time of the attack, began identifying as a woman in 2019  

A trans predator who raped a friend with ‘her penis’ was convicted of having sex with an underage teenage girl when she was a man, MailOnline can reveal.

Lexi-Rose Crawford was an 18-year-old biological male called Dominic Risden when he was jailed for four years in 2017 for having sex with the girl he met online.

But around the start of 2019, Crawford, 24, began identifying as a woman, using a female name and feminine pronouns as her release from custody loomed. Within weeks of her release on license, she raped her vulnerable friend. 

Crawford pleaded not guilty to the rape, saying she suffered from blackouts and could not remember the incident. But jurors took less than two hours deliberation to find her guilty of the offence at Bristol Crown Court last Friday.

It is believed the trans predator will be sent to a male prison if she is given a custodial sentence for rape, despite being referred to as Miss by lawyers and Judge Michael Longman throughout her four-day trial last week. 

Lexi-Rose Crawford, 24, has been convicted of raping a friend with ‘her penis’ just weeks after being released from prison for child sex offences

The former volunteer guitar technician stared blankly ahead as guilty verdicts to rape and sexual assault were returned. She was released on conditional bail until sentencing in May.

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Details of her earlier conviction at Bristol Crown Court when she identified as a man in 2017 can now be revealed.

Risden who was then aged 18 was jailed after admitting two charges of having sexual activity with a child.

The court heard how he had sex with his 15-year-old victim in some woodland after contacting her on social media.

Risden chatted to the youngster before arranging to meet her face-to-face, and taking her to a house where they started sexual activity in a bedroom, but were interrupted.

He then took her to a secluded spot, asked her to perform a sexual act on him and told her: ‘You are going to get laid.’

Prosecutor Charles Thomas told the court in June 2017 that the girl performed oral sex on him before they had full sex.

Mr Thomas said: ‘She was upset whilst this was going on. She didn’t say ‘stop’ or ‘don’t’.

After they had sex, Risden’s mobile phone rang and he answered to find the girl’s mother calling him. 

The former volunteer guitar technician stared blankly ahead as guilty verdicts to rape and sexual assault were returned. She was released on conditional bail until sentencing on May 10

The court heard that she had checked her daughter’s social media messages and obtained his number.

Mr Thomas said: ‘She spoke to the defendant and could hear her daughter apparently upset in the background.’

Risden claimed that he didn’t know the girl was aged 15, but she replied: ‘Yes you did.’

He then ran off, leaving the youngster ‘upset and dishevelled’. She went to a supermarket and a complaint of sexual assault was made.

The formal indictment used in court also specified that she used ‘her penis’ to carry out the rape. 

Crawford appeared on the first day of her trial with long, brown hair with blonde highlights, as well as a small moustache and stubble before appearing cleanly shaven on day two.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said Crawford had come around to their home in April 2019 where they played computer games.

The victim said Crawford ‘wanted me to lie down next to her and then tried to start, like, cuddling me, which I don’t feel comfortable with anyway’.

They added in evidence: ‘And then she started removing my clothes, which I didn’t want, I did keep saying that, like, “I don’t want to”.’

The formal indictment used in court also specified that Crawford used ‘her penis’ to carry out the rape. Crawford is pictured arriving at Bristol Crown Court. She will be sentence

Crawford began to carry out the rape, and the victim rolled over and pretended to go to sleep to end the ordeal.

Discussing why they did not try and fight Crawford off, they said: ‘What could I have done without using physical contact to stop her? And then that could have been me in the wrong by using physical contact to stop her’.

Prosecutor David Scutt suggested Crawford’s claim of memory loss, which had no medical evidence to back it up, was a ‘convenient excuse’ and a means to avoid questions about what happened.

Mr Scutt said: ‘It appears you can remember the good stuff, but you cannot remember the bad stuff. Are you pretending that you can’t remember?’

Crawford, who inexplicably spoke with a slight American accent despite not having lived in the United States, replied: ‘No.’

The prosecutor again asked: ‘What I’m going to suggest is this – that you did those things and you know you did. Agree or disagree?’

Crawford replied: ‘Disagree.’

Mr Scutt said: ‘Is it just this, Miss Crawford, that you really can’t bring yourself to admit what happened and take full responsibility?’

Crawford replied: ‘That’s not the case.’

The latest case comes in the wake of Scottish rapist Isla Bryson, who was last month jailed for eight years for attacking two vulnerable female victims in their own homes while living as a man.

Bryson was initially held in an all-women’s prison upon conviction, prompting a bitter row about gender laws in Scotland.

Crawford will be sentenced on May 10.

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