Local authorities accused of ‘pimping out’ autistic woman

Court agreed to let random men have sex with her at Manchester care home so she could ‘learn from mistakes’

Could prostitution soon be effectively decriminalised?
 
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A young woman with autism was allowed to have sex with random men after her carers argued that it would help her “learn from her mistakes”, according to newly released court documents.

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