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.
lol, I saw this thread earlier....unbelievable that a law like this must even be made....how sick are some people? : )
Stay in West Virginia. If she ain't yer Ma, she's yor'n!
Sick enough to vote for THIS for president:
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6. That won't stop me. Doesnt mean a thing if you don't get caught, and dead people are really good at keeping secrets.
Now off to the shower.
OMG sweetliberty.....must you post that throbbing pic on this thread, lol!
Blow-up dolls? But, sigh, it just won't be the same.
Everyone has necrophobia, unless they want to die. You no doubt mean necrophilophobia.
OMG!!!
No need to be embarrassed sweetliberty; I mean, after all, you're not the one in that suit, crawling.....hmmmmmm, wonder if that's what kerry was talking about when he said he crawls on his belly when he hunts? Maybe that's his hunting suit, lol!
Obviously another hateful Republican trick to stop Democrats from wooing their voters.
I hate to be the one to break this to you........
lol
Sam would lay stretched out his stomach on stage, playing a corpse in the morgue, face-down.
"Well, I'm dead now, but it was a good life."
Then he would start thrusting his body forward with his toes.
"What the?! Hey! HEY!! What are you doing back there?? I'm dead and I'm still taking it up the &#$@%&!! Oh OHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Puts new meaning into "being in a dead relationship"... hmmm. does this exclude vampires & the "living dead" ??? .. lots goes on around Hollyweird, donchaknow?
Hey,, they better not get closer than 1000 yards from my cat.. yet alone IN her...
Jimminy Crickets! It took 2 years to pass this law? I would've thought it was already a crime. Must be the powerful mortician's lobby.
All I can think of is this verse when it comes to California.
"Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting."
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