🔴 PREDATOR WHO BECAME ‘NATALIE’ JAILED FOR ABUSING GIRL, 13
A child sex offender who abused a 13-year-old girl before transitioning and adopting the name Natalie Wolf has been jailed for three-and-a-half years at Newcastle Crown Court.
Natalie Wolf, 47, formerly known as Ryan Haley, was convicted by a jury of sexual activity with a child after a trial in which the defendant represented himself and alleged an extraordinary conspiracy that saw the jury, police, prosecutors and even the victim supposedly “hypnotised” into securing his conviction.
Sentencing Wolf on Friday, Judge Gavin Doig rejected the fantastical claims in their entirety, telling the defendant: “You are not the victim of a conspiracy, you are not the victim at all.”
The court heard that Wolf, a biological male previously known as Ryan Haley, carried out the attack in the Washington area of Tyne and Wear when the victim was just 13. The teenager was groped in a sustained assault that left her fearing she was about to be raped.
She remained silent for years but eventually found the courage to report the matter to police once she reached adulthood.
In a courageous victim personal statement read to the packed courtroom, the woman made clear she did not recognise Wolf’s acquired gender identity and would always regard the defendant as the man who abused her.
“Ryan Haley wants everyone to know him as Natalie Wolf,” she told the court, “but in my eyes he is Ryan Haley, the man who sexually abused me.”
She described the lasting damage inflicted upon her, stating her body had felt like a “battlefield” and that watching the defendant “celebrate their life, their body and their choices” had been like “salt in my wounds”.
The victim continued: “I am doing this not just for me but for all the children and women who have been sexually abused by men. Today Ryan Haley you are going to get what you deserve.”
Wolf, who showed no remorse throughout proceedings, accused the victim of “lying through her teeth” and complained of being assaulted while on remand in HMP Durham, a male prison.
Judge Doig described the defendant’s conspiracy allegations – which extended to claims that the jury had been “planted” or hypnotised and that the complainant had somehow hypnotised a police officer during her video interview – as a “web of lies”.
The judge told Wolf: “It is clear you believed you are the victim of a conspiracy involving the courts, prison service, the barristers in the case, your solicitor, the police, your family and a number of other people.”
Dismissing any prospect of bail pending appeal, His Honour Judge Doig imposed a sentence of three years and six months’ imprisonment.
Wolf was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and made subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
The defendant, whose date of birth is 12 March 1978, gave no fixed address during the hearing but has previously been linked to addresses in the Washington and Sunderland areas.
Judge Doig paid tribute to the complainant’s bravery in coming forward, noting that such cases are “not easy” for victims to pursue.
He urged Wolf to use the period of custody to reflect on the behaviour that had brought him before the court.
