Woman Disguised Herself As A Boy So She Could Date Her Underage Female Friends

Woman Disguised Herself As A Boy So She Could Date Her Underage Female Friends – Daily Mail

A 19-year-old woman lived a double life dressed as a boy in order to date her own girlfriends to whom she was sexually attracted.

Gemma Barker wore boy’s clothes and gave herself false identities so she could have sexual encounters with her 15 and 16-year-old victims.

‘Manipulative’ Barker incredibly completely fooled her friends and their families by posing as three different teenage boys.

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Fraud: Gemma Barker, 19, pretended to be three separate teenage boys so she could have romantic encounters with female victims

It was only when – in the guise of one of her alter egos Aaron Lampard – she was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and her clothes were removed in the cells that police discovered her true identity.

Barker’s two victims were completely taken in and had sexual encounters with the person they variously believed was Lampard, Connor McCormack or Luke Jones.

Barker, from Staines, Middlesex, now faces jail after admitting two counts of sexual assault and one of fraud by tricking the girls into relationships.

Prosecutors at Guildford Crown Court told how she reinforced her deception by setting up Facebook profiles for her different personas and even had individual dress styles for them.

She wore different hats, hoodies and other baggy clothing to mask her identity, walking and talking like a boy.

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Disguise: Barker, pictured here with actor and Dancing on Ice star Kieron Richardson, wore baggy clothes and changed her voice to dupe her victims

Judge Peter Moss told Barker he could not be sure whether she was ‘bad and dangerous to know or mad and dangerous to know’.

Barker’s disguise was so convincing that when one of the victims removed a sleeping ‘Connor’s’ hat following a petting session, she was shocked to discover it was her best friend’s boyfriend ‘Aaron’ she had been kissing.

Even at that point she did not realise the boy was actually a female friend.

When the net was closing in, Barker deliberately fractured her jaw and tried to blame her ‘Luke Jones’ alter-ego for attacking her and forcing her to pose as ‘Aaron’.

She even tried to claim compensation for her injuries.

Prosecutor Ruby Selva told the court: ‘The defendant was 19 years old when she befriended her victims, who were 16 and 15 years old.

‘Having befriended them she disguised herself as various 16-year-old boys for the sole purpose of having sexual relationships with them.

‘Neither had any idea it was Miss Barker – their friend.

‘If either of them had known of the deceit, that the boy they were having a relationship with was Miss Barker, they would not have consented to the acts.’

Barker struck up an online relationship with the older victim by inventing the fictitious character ‘Aaron Lampard’, and the pair became a ‘couple’.

The girl met ‘Aaron’ in various parks and even took him home to her family, Ms Selva said.

The prosecutor said the 16-year-old’s parents were taken in by the disguise, even though they had met Gemma Barker.

Ms Selva added: ‘They (her parents) described never really seeing “Aaron Lampard’s” face because of the hat being pulled down so low or him averting his eyes from them.’

Barker engaged in ‘kissing, cuddling and groping’ with the girl as Lampard before creating another boy persona and befriending a second victim.

It was through ‘Lampard’ that the 16-year-old’s younger friend met ‘Connor McCormack’.

‘Connor’ had slightly different clothing but still concealed ‘himself’ with a hoodie and baggy clothes when with the girl.

The younger victim began a relationship with ‘McCormack’, despite having met both ‘Lampard’ and the real Barker.

In May 2010 the bizarre story took a further twist when the second girl removed ‘McCormack’s’ hat and saw who she thought was ‘Lampard’.

Ms Selva added: ‘As far as the second girl is concerned a third character – ‘Luke Jones’ – was introduced, again via ‘Aaron Lampard’ and ‘Connor McCormack’.

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Prosecutors told Guildford Crown Court (pictured) neither of Barker’s victims had ‘any idea’ of her true identity

‘She described on one occasion kissing him. She described similar clothing, a hat and a hoodie being up.’

After the alleged infidelity, the girls became suspicious and contacted police.

‘Lampard’ was arrested in June 2010 but it was only when he was searched that Barker’s identity was revealed.

Judge Moss said the case involved ‘fairly lengthy and convoluted deception’ of everybody around Barker.

He told her: ‘What concerns me is, however unusual it is, it has got a very mean, manipulative streak to it.’

Barker was bailed until sentencing on March 2.

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