Dominic/Sophie Louise Carter
Dominic Mark/Sophie Louise Carter, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, was convicted at Southampton Crown Court in 2023 of three counts of making indecent images of children.
On arrest in April 2021, Carter ‘wrestled’ with officers while trying to prevent them accessing multiple devices. Two category A indecent images of children were found – the most serious kind that depict e.g. rape of children – and a further three Category B images were discovered, as well as six which were Category C.
Carter, 39, apparently has five convictions for six unspecified past offences, but was given a six-month prison sentence, which was suspended for 18 months. Carter must also complete 60 rehabilitation activity requirement sessions and 120 hours of unpaid work and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years. Carter’s defence barrister attempted mitigation by raising the defendant’s alcohol, drug and mental health issues but the judge said “The reason that children around the world are subject to abuse and it is filmed is because people seek gratification. “People like you get gratification from looking at those images.”
Carter was convicted under the name Dominic Mark Carter but appeared in court for sentencing in August 2023 wearing entirely pink clothes, pink nail varnish and a child’s pink hairband, claiming a trans identity as Sophie Louise Carter. This declaration of a trans identity after criminal charges have been brought has been pithily named ‘Prison Onset Gender Dysphoria‘ – as exemplified by the trans-identified male double rapist Adam Graham/Isla Bryson who told jurors ‘she [sic] first made the decision about “transition” from a man to a woman in 2020 after she [sic] first appeared to face the rape charge’. This tag collates other offenders trying this gambit – likely believing it will decrease their likelihood of receiving a custodial sentence. Now that government policy has finally been updated so that trans-identified male offenders cannot serve their sentences in the female estate if they have male genitalia or have been convicted of sexual offences, male sex offenders like Bryson and Carter cannot be sent to women’s prisons.
*Update September 2024*
Carter was again before the court in September 2024 having failed to attend unpaid work on April 14 and failed to remain in touch with probation. The judge told Carter “I am going to adjourn this to see if anything can be salvaged from this wreckage. “I don’t hold out any hopes but the alternative is a short prison sentence. It is up to you.” Carter was bailed until 20 December 2024.
*Update May 2025*
After having flouted the conditions imposed by the suspended sentenced four times, Carter was finally jailed for six months. Carter was sent to HMP Winchester, a Category B men’s prison after being convicted of three offences, namely failure to comply with a suspended sentence order and community order and failure to attend probation appointments. The court heard that Carter failed to attend the appointments after being kicked out of his parents’ house (see here for further examples of adult trans-identified male offenders who still live with their parents).
Media coverage revealed that having repeatedly failed to attend appointments with probation or tell police of a change of address, Carter then called the authorities and pretended to have been kidnapped. Police spoke to Carter throughout the day until they eventually arrested the defendant. Predictably, Carter complained of the ‘distress’ of being sent to a male prison. The judge remarked “You need to sort this out otherwise you will go to prison for longer and longer periods.”
Media reports
Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14671559/Trans-woman-paedophile-male-prison-jailed-indecent-images.html archive
Daily Echo https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24598721.hampshire-pervert-spared-jail-child-images-back-court/ archive
Julie Bindel feminist commentary ‘Trans paedophiles are laughing at Britain’ pointing out that men who claim a trans identity are no less likely to commit sex offences than any other men https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/trans-paedophiles-are-laughing-at-britain/ archive
Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12461091/Paedophile-tree-surgeon-spared-jail.html archive
Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/30/paedophile-changes-gender-sophie-carter-court/ archive
Southern Daily Echo https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23753545.lee-on-the-solent-paedophile-indecent-images-phone/ archive
New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/uk-pedophile-busted-as-a-man-is-sentenced-as-a-woman/ archive