UK Court Awards Man With Down Syndrome Nearly $13G After Wife Banned From Having Sex With Him

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST:


By Cory Wolfe

 

A British court has awarded a man with Down syndrome almost $13,000 after the government banned his wife from having sex with him, alleging that he could not give consent to have sex.

 

Prior to the ban, the man, who remained unidentified, enjoyed “normal conjugal relations” with his wife of five years until an evaluation by a consultant psychologist concluded he did not have the capacity to consent.

 

The couple, who married in 2010, were ordered to not engage in sexual relations until the man had completed a sexual education course.

 

His wife, being told that she would be committing a serious criminal offense if she had sex with her husband, was forced to move into a spare bedroom.

 

She also “significantly reduced any physical expressions of affection” so she would not “lead him on,” the Court of Protection heard.

 

But the course was delated for more than a year, winning the man damages for what judge Sir Mark Hedley stated in the court document was the “deprivation for at least 12 months of normal conjugal relations with his wife.”

 

The case was heard after the man’s sister voiced concerns about the delays of the course to the Court of Protection.

 

“The impact at the time must have been profound, not only for the loss of sexual relations, but for two other matters peculiar to him,” Hedley stated.  “First, he would have been unable to understand why what was happening should be so.  And secondly, in order, as she put it, ‘not to lead him on,’ the wife understandably and foreseeably withdrew to another bedroom and withheld much physical affection.”

 

The man was forced to take two courses, because a therapist determined that even though he had made “sufficient progress” after, he still did not demonstrate a clear understanding of sexually transmitted diseases.

 

Sir Mark said the case was an “unusual” one, as it pertained to a “settled, monogamous and exclusive married relationship.”  Generally, cases which address competence to engage in sexual activity involve people seen as vulnerable to being sexually abused or exploited.

 

“Many would think that no couple should have had to undergo this highly intrusive move upon their personal privacy, yet such a move was in its essentials entirely lawful and properly motivated,” Hedley said.

 

“As I have said, perhaps it is part of the inevitable price that must be paid to have a regime of effective safeguarding.”


WATCH TLR’S LATEST VIDEO:

Related posts

26 comments

hard rock casino online June 30, 2020 at 2:05 am

online casino real money paypal

online casino with free signup bonus real money usa

casino online slots July 2, 2020 at 4:26 am

real money casino online

real money online casino

generic sildenafil July 4, 2020 at 12:39 am

viagra without doctor

viagra generic

online casinos for usa players July 6, 2020 at 5:16 am

casino moons online casino

online gambling

online casino slots no download July 8, 2020 at 10:54 am

casino moons online casino

casinos online

cialis 5 mg July 11, 2020 at 2:52 pm

cialis professional

generic cialis

payday loans online July 13, 2020 at 8:14 am

personal loans

payday advance

payday loans online July 16, 2020 at 8:00 am

cash advance online

loans online

payday loans online July 19, 2020 at 8:55 am

quick cash loans

payday loans

viagra prescription July 22, 2020 at 10:12 am

viagra for sale

viagra pills

cialis 5 mg July 25, 2020 at 10:24 am

cialis 20

cialis 20

generic for cialis July 29, 2020 at 8:58 am

cialis generic

generic cialis

cialis to buy July 31, 2020 at 6:38 pm

buy cialis

new cialis

buy cialis August 3, 2020 at 8:56 am

cialis internet

cialis generic

cialis 5 mg August 6, 2020 at 3:24 pm

20 cialis

cialis 5 mg

casino online slots August 9, 2020 at 1:46 pm

vegas casino online

casinos online

online casinos real money August 13, 2020 at 6:28 am

online casino games real money

casino world

casino gambling August 16, 2020 at 9:39 pm

online casino real money usa

online casinos real money

gambling casino August 20, 2020 at 8:47 pm

online casino games

vegas casino online

natural viagra August 23, 2020 at 8:57 pm

female viagra

natural viagra

viagra online canadian pharmacy August 26, 2020 at 12:30 am

canadian viagra

cheapest viagra

generic viagra reviews August 29, 2020 at 12:00 am

sildenafil 20 mg

viagra pill

cialis pills September 1, 2020 at 10:32 am

generic cialis tadalafil

tadalafil reviews

generic cialis tadalafil best buys September 5, 2020 at 11:24 am

cialis buy

generic cialis at walmart

slot machine September 18, 2020 at 12:31 pm

rivers casino

online casinos

Canadain viagra November 19, 2020 at 2:12 pm

Get viagra fast

Discount viagra online

Leave a Comment