{"id":104001,"date":"2025-05-15T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104001\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:52:10","slug":"man-had-a-profoundly-wrong-sexual-encounter-and-said-it-was-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104001\/","title":{"rendered":"Man had a ‘profoundly wrong’ sexual encounter – and said it was ‘wonderful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Rosenfield, 62, was sentenced to six months behind barsMartin Rosenfield(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

A social worker has been jailed for engaging in a sexual encounter with a \u2018vulnerable\u2019 woman.<\/p>\n

Martin Rosenfield, 62, was sentenced to six months behind bars after admitting that his behaviour amounted to misconduct in a public office. Rosenfield, who worked for Salford council, did not resist when his victim instigated sexual activity after he attended her home.<\/p>\n

He then texted her after, describing the incident as \u2018wonderful\u2019. Rosenfield claimed the remark was made in connection with their conversation, but a judge said this lacked credibility.<\/p>\n

He has since lost his job, his home and his marriage, Manchester Crown Court heard. Rosenfield was a \u2018contact worker\u2019 employed by the council to supervise \u2018contact sessions\u2019 between the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and her children. The pair had each other\u2019s phone numbers and \u2018wisely or not\u2019, Rosenfield began ending their messages with an \u2018x\u2019, meaning a kiss.<\/p>\n

The day before the sexual encounter, they had texted each other. The victim told Rosenfield \u2018thank you for another great contact session\u2019. About an hour later, the victim received an unsolicited image of a man\u2019s genitals from an unknown number.<\/p>\n

Rosenfield leaving court following a previous hearing(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The messages became sexualised and the victim also replied with sexual messages. She came to believe that the unknown man was actually Rosenfield.<\/p>\n

But enquiries proved that it wasn\u2019t, and the incident was described as an \u2018unfortunate and remarkable coincidence\u2019. The following day, the victim texted Rosenfield to say she had \u2018give up\u2019 and that she wouldn\u2019t be attending another meeting.<\/p>\n

He urged her to not \u2018give up\u2019 and asked if he could attend her home. He did, and when inside they kissed and she performed oral sex on him. Afterwards, she texted Rosenfield saying \u2018that was so good\u2019 and Rosenfield said \u2018that was wonderful, thank you\u2019.<\/p>\n

The police were alerted, and Mr Rosenfield was prosecuted. Rosenfield, from Bury, pleaded guilty to a charge of engaging in misconduct in a public office.<\/p>\n

But he disputed elements of the prosecution\u2019s case. He denied that he had instigated sexual contact with the victim, and insisted it was actually her who had instigated it.<\/p>\n

Following a trial of issue, where both parties gave evidence, Judge Nicholas Dean KC ruled that it was the victim who had instigated the sexual activity. He also ruled that the victim had expressed a sexual interest in Rosenfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not in any way shape or form a criticism of her,\u201d the judge told Rosenfield. \u201cAs you accept, you could and should have resisted what occurred. But you allowed the encounter to progress to a sexual act.\u201d Rosenfield had abused his position by allowing the encounter to continue, the judge said.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cIt must have been apparent to you from your contact with her that she was a vulnerable individual. You were affectionate towards her. I don\u2019t suggest that was inappropriate.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it may have contributed to what occurred. No doubt you quickly came to realise that what you had done was wrong, and you felt a sense of shame. You have been punished in many ways for this behaviour. All as a result of a very brief sexual encounter.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut a sexual encounter you should have recognised at the time was profoundly wrong and potentially very damaging towards [the victim].”<\/p>\n

Defending, Dan Calder described the episode as a \u2018single, isolated incident\u2019 with a \u2018highly unusual\u2019 and \u2018perhaps unique set of events\u2019. Mr Calder said Rosenfield had worked for himself for many years before taking a job at the council. He said Rosenfield and his former wife had fostered 16 children and had three children himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a consequence of his actions in this case his marriage has ended and he has been required to leave the family home,\u201d Mr Calder said. \u201cHe has lost his career. He has been deregistered as a foster carer.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cHe bears no ill will towards [the victim] whatsoever.\u201d Mr Calder said references submitted to the court told of Rosenfield\u2019s \u2018kindness, compassion and generosity\u2019, and his \u2018work ethic\u2019 and \u2018loyalty\u2019.<\/p>\n

He appealed to the judge to spare sending Rosenfield to jail, highlighting his lack of previous criminal convictions and arguing he had \u2018significant personal mitigation\u2019.<\/p>\n

But Judge Dean said that there were \u2018public policy reasons\u2019 why offenders convicted of misconduct in a public office should be sent to prison. \u201cThese circumstances seem to me to apply equally to social workers as to police officers and others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Rosenfield, 62, was sentenced to six months behind barsMartin Rosenfield(Image: Manchester Evening News) A social worker has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1285,30,12,1290,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-104001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-salford","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114512891013074344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}