This showed the 13-year-old boy was the baby's father. The prosecutor told how Cordice, who had begun studying at a child care course and had been working in a children's nursery, had been forced into taking a DNA test after social services became involved once the boy's mother phoned police. 'She spoke about him to me sometimes, just how he had been annoying her, accusing her of stuff.' Then he did not really say anything to me.Ĭordice denies five counts of sexual activity with a child, three which were said to have taken place while she was aged 17 years and two while she was 18 years old The boy told investigators: 'Her boyfriend found out. In a police interview video shown to the jury, the boy told how Cordice's husband had found out about her relationship with him. While they carried on having sex, Cordice had married her long-term partner and had given birth to her daughter. The boy had been the first person who Cordice told that she was pregnant, the jury of seven men and five women heard, and she had shown him an app on her phone which suggested the date she had conceived was the first time they had had sex. Afterwards, he felt that it was a bit weird and that she did not say anything to him afterwards.' She would have kept asking and asking me to have sex". 'Ms Cordice then sat on his bed and started to hug him and kiss him and it carried on. 'The defendant, Ms Cordice, was drunk, she went around to his address, she went into his bedroom and at first, they talked normally and he continued playing on his Xbox and watching YouTube. Ms Ong, speaking of the police interview, told the jury: 'The boy said that he and Ms Cordice started having sexual intercourse when he was 13 years old. The jury heard how the woman, then aged 17, had gone to the boy's house drunk in January 2017 and pulled his trousers down while he was playing computer games.Ĭordice continued having unprotected sex with the child on average twice a month for a year, right through her pregnancy and after she gave birth to a girl, it is claimed Now I feel like she did not really care about me.'
It was just like, she just wanted to do it. Prosecutors told how the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had later said to police in interview: 'You are supposed to have sex and, like, love each other. Famous people who are simply rumored to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual are not listed.Leah Cordice, 20, walked into the boy's bedroom where he was playing computer games and pulled down his trousers before having sex with him, the court heardĬordice's husband believed the child was his but a later DNA test showed that the schoolboy was actually the father, Reading Crown Court heard. His wife had kept the sexual relationship with the boy a secret.Ĭordice, who was studying child care while working at the local nursery, is charged with five counts of having sexual activity with a minor, three which were said to have taken place while she was aged 17 years and two while she was 18 years old. This is a partial list of confirmed famous people who were or are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Opinion about the acceptability of homosexuality is divided in Israel, Poland and Bolivia.” As of 2013, Americans are divided – a majority (60 percent) believes homosexuality should be accepted, while 33 percent disagree. The Pew Research Center's 2013 Global Attitudes Survey found that there is “greater acceptance in more secular and affluent countries,” with "publics in 39 countries broad acceptance of homosexuality in North America, the European Union, and much of Latin America, but equally widespread rejection in predominantly Muslim nations and in Africa, as well as in parts of Asia and in Russia. The high prevalence of people from the West on this list may be due to societal attitudes towards homosexuality.
Some prefer to simply follow an individual's self-definition or identity. However, most definitions include a psychological component (such as the direction of an individual's erotic desire) and/or a behavioural component (which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s). Indeed, several studies have found that much of the research about sexual orientation has failed to define the term at all, making it difficult to reconcile the results of different studies. A number of different classification schemes have been used to describe sexual orientation since the mid-19th century, and scholars have often defined the term "sexual orientation" in divergent ways. The historical concept and definition of sexual orientation varies and has changed greatly over time for example the word gay wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the mid-20th century. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.