Posted on 09/10/2004 5:00:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts.
"Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.
"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.
The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.
Lawmakers revived the bill this year after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man found in a San Francisco funeral home drunk and passed out on top of an elderly woman's corpse.
The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.
Just to be a troublemaker, I'd like to point out that Arnold, during his campaign, essentially said that there was nothing in his mind that told him one type of behavior was wrong, and another wasn't. Where does he get the moral/philosophical reasoning to say that necrophilia is wrong?
In 25 years, the secular radical left will be defending necrophilia. Bank on it.
I couldn't have, with so few words, said it better blue Jeans
So Al Gore is shut off in California?
lol
This does not sound fair to corpses. If they can vote in California, they should also be allowed to have sex!
"I particularly remember one heartwarming book he wrote about a young necrophiliac who finally achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner."
{mild laughter from the audience}
"The rest of you can look it up when you get home."
In a song about college, however, Lehrer was happy to use:
"Turn on the spigot
Pour the beer and swig it
And gaudeamus igit...ur"
Nowadays, I imagine few people know gaudeamus igitur, but only a weirdo wouldn't know what a coroner or necrophiliac were all about.
lol!
Expect the Democrats to raise a stink ;-) about. Afterall, they have to represent the poor and opressed dead people.
Man, they are really getting hard up out there in Calif. Suprised they have to pass a law to make this illegal.
Not only that, it will provide us with another source of News of the Wierd stories for years to come.
Hey, they can vote out there, they ought at least be able to F***.
Damn your good ! :-) Great minds and all....
This will finally stop the perverts dead in their tracks.
need some laughs?
It wouldn't surprise me! When I lived in the midwest, about 30 years ago, I knew a woman who married a mortician and she was suspicious of him because he often asked her to take a cold shower and lay still before they had sex.
*Shudders*
There sure are some strange dudes around.
How about sex with a walking corpse ? You know , someone like Kerry !
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