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German couple fight to legalise incest

Case to go before court in Karlsruhe on ยง173 StGB

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Kay
There is a related article (about incest in general) in today's BBC News: Incest: an age-old taboo.

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(...) It is not hard to see how incest can make family life very complicated, potentially turning brothers into fathers and mothers into sisters.

Yet while most are clear that sexual acts between a related adult and child constitute abuse and as such must be punished, there is no modern consensus on whether society has the right to ban consensual sex between siblings, or indeed parent and adult child. (...)
LFF
I like how a controversial topic like this makes the papers revert to type...

From the Guardian:

"..Two of their four children have developmental problems.."
liberal rag

and then the Daily-"ban this sick filth"-Mail

"...the fact that two of their children can barely walk or talk. Experts believe that such birth defects are caused by inbreeding.."
not so liberal rag

do we know what sort of handicaps the children actually have?
Editor Bob
The case was rejected. See the new topic: German incest law upheld
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