Posted on 03/08/2010 4:10:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A postal inspector went on trial in France today accused of chopping his wife’s head off because she refused to have children.
Philippe Cousin, 53, said he suffered a ‘mid life crisis’ when he approached his half century without a son or daughter.
He blamed it on his 47-year-old wife, Nicole, who was still a virgin despite having been married to him for more than 21 years.
On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: ‘Excuse me for disturbing you, I’ve killed my wife.’
In a fit of rage following a domestic argument, he had taken a kitchen knife to her neck before slicing her head off.
This morning he appeared before a judge at the Pas-de-Calais assizes at Saint-Omer, near Calais, facing life in prison for murder.
He denies the charge, pleading diminished responsibility, but faces life in prison.
The court heard how Cousins also told police: ‘I’m sorry for the work which I’ ve given you.
'My wife shouted my name out, I decapitated her. You realise that, and I’m not mad!’
While on remand he said his wife’s inability to have children lay at the heart of the couple’s domestic difficulties.
She feared that she would pass on her father’s multiple sclerosis through his genes, the court heard.
This meant that every time he tried to have sex he was rebuffed. An autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cousins was indeed a virgin when she died, even though she married aged 21.
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lol...
Not a valid marriage on two counts:
* Marriage not consummated
* One partner not open to life
This is what annulments are for (not divorce). In a just world, the man could have walked away with no duties whatsoever owed toward the woman, who was never his wife.
Oh that ‘religion of peace’, it’s sumthin isn’t it?
Divorce? The marriage was never consummated.
An annulment would have been less painful.
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>The guy should have got a divorce. No killing.
And here you’re assuming that divorce is preferable to death... but if I recall, the wedding vows are “till death do us part.”
Jesus denied the “right of divorce” for/to everything excepting marital infidelity... as the autopsy shows that she was still a virgin, and the reason for the man’s rage was that he had no children, I think we can safely exclude “marital infidelity.”
That they were married for over twenty years and he had not had sex with her shows some incredible respect on his part, I should think... as well as showing her own selfishness in the unwillingness to submit, or even acknowledge, her husband’s desires. The “physical defect” argument for abortions are ‘cousins’ to her line of thought; I also notice that there was no mention of adoption...
Well, at least he was polite about it.
Beats me. How stupid can a man or women be to marry with no sex ever, unless you know /knew it going in? Now, I understand cancer and other health problems. I took an oath for better or worse, until death do us part. I damn sure will never leave a wife riddled by cancer/radiation. I could not live with myself if I did.
a couple of screws loose...
now a head loose.
reminds me of when Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki.
this never was going to work out well....
I’m glad he didn’t have a gun on him or else he might have shot her.
“Put out or get out!” probably would have worked better.
He should have talked to Tiger.......
i usually have a snarky comment, but i’m totally speechless right now... wth!
Thats bad, lol.
True. I missed the most obvious.
Virgin. Children. Wife. 21 year marriage. Somehow all of these pieces do not fit together in this story. Someone is completely unaware of how things work.
Ummm, yeah, divorce IS preferable to death.
From a female perspective...this guy must have made her feel like if she did have sex with him, she was a slut... or perhaps he was an abusive monster. Either way..
Of course he was a monster...he chopped her head off and blamed it on her.
It’s like Obama and the Dims blaming Bush for everything.
He could have had children and so could she, but she was the wise one in this relationship... her husband was a murderer.
Where do you get that he's a Muslim?
(People are weird!)
>>And here you’re assuming that divorce is preferable to death... but if I recall, the wedding vows are “till death do us part.”
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>Ummm, yeah, divorce IS preferable to death.
You’ve made you assertion; prove it.
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