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Read: A Woman on Death Row and the Neighbor Who Put Her ThereThe woman who duped her best friend into thinking she was a man and then had sex with her has been found guilty, reports the Mirror. She'll receive a sentence in November.The offender, Gayle Newland, originally plead not guilty to five counts of sexual assault after the friend accused her of impersonating a man named Kye Fortune first on Facebook and then IRL.Posing as Fortune, Newland allegedly told the woman that a car accident and a brain tumor had left "him" self-conscious of his body, a lie she then used to coerce the woman into donning a blindfold during sex. They had sex about ten times like this until the friend pulled off the blindfold, discovering Kye was a woman—her buddy—wearing a fake penis.In court, Newland maintained the charges against her were bogus, and that the complainant knew she was a woman the whole time: Kye Fortune was just a role-playing fantasy that they used to cope with their sexual identities."My main reason why I spoke as Kye was for her," Newland said according to the Mirror. "I knew better than anyone… if she wanted to hide her sexuality I would allow her to do that." Newland even claimed her accuser told her to buy the fake penis in the first place.After the judge announced the verdict, Newland reportedly yelled, "How can you send me down for something I haven't done?"Follow Scott on Twitter.
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