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A transgender prisoner charged with raping a woman was remanded to a female prison where she indecently assaulted four inmates, a court heard.
Karen White, 52, was sent to the jail despite the fact that she was a convicted sex offender and paedophile.
All her previous offences had been committed when she was a man – and White had not had gender reassignment surgery when she went to women-only New Hall Prison near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where the sex assaults took place.
The case could lead to a review of the rules for dealing with transgender inmates in the prison system.
Yesterday White pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to the historic rape of a woman in August 2003, when she was then called Stephen Wood.
Last month she also pleaded guilty at the same court to two counts of raping another woman between February and December 2016.
It was for these rape offences that White was remanded in custody to New Hall Prison.
And while locked up there she took advantage of living alongside women inmates to carry out further sex attacks.
White admitted sex assaults on two inmates and denied sexually assaulting two others. All the incidents took place between September and November last year.
She was transferred to HM Prison Leeds, a category B men's prison, after the jail attacks.
The sex assault offences she denied have been left to lie on file, as have a further rape allegation against the 2016 victim and a charge of controlling behaviour against her.
White had been living as a man called David Thompson before she began to identify as a woman.
She became Karen White and lived near Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire. She was in transition when she committed the latest rape.
White is also awaiting sentence for stabbing a neighbour. Yesterday she appeared in the dock with her auburn hair in a ponytail, wearing glasses and walking with a stick.
Judge Christopher Batty adjourned sentencing until October 11 for the preparation of reports and to obtain victim personal statements.