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.
How will they consummate the marriages then?
The most notorious modern day necrophiliac was actually a woman in Cali. Karen Greenlee.
The "Weaker" Sex
Among funeral workers, there have been a few females who performed their own erotic rituals, and one of the most famous is Karen Greenlee. She didn't kill men to get the corpses, but she certainly had an attraction to them once they were dead.
In 1979 in California, Greenlee was to deliver the body of a 33-year-old man to a cemetery for a funeral, but instead she drove off in the hearse, abducting the corpse to keep for herself. She was found and charged with stealing a hearse and interfering with a funeral, and apparently it wasn't the first time she'd felt such a sexual attraction to the dead. Into this casket she had put a long letter that detailed her erotic episodes with what she estimated had been over 20 male corpses. Calling herself a "morgue rat," she didn't understand why she felt so compelled to touch dead bodies, but it was an addiction she couldn't seem to break.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/necrophiles/sex_3.html
I remember an author with a book on such matters. Art Bell's Show of course. Anyway, I remembered she did the bios of Rice and Koontz. So, looking that up:
Katherine M. Ramsland
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse after Death
The story that I recall is that there is a group of morticians that send out the call when a good-looking
corpse comes in to one of them. Yes, the receiving mortician throws a party for corpse and fellow devotees.
Yes, but can dead people still have sex with each other? We should go to Beverly Hills and find out.
Probably. With help. And *a* male is in the right portion of the rigor mortis phase (I'm guessing at thist point)
Didn't France allow a dead couple to get married last month?
I can't sleep, so I have Lexx on. The *dead* Kai is with a trio of goth (or vampire) females.
This is a sad testimony to what a sick society we have become that a law like this has to even be considered.
Obviously the two party system has lost its way in Californian.
But can the corpses still vote ? That is the question.
You have to pass a law to make anything illegal.
Pardon me while I go throw up....
I just want to know one thing...does this mean that corpses can still have sex with other corpses...(inquiring minds want to know)?
"Sick enough to vote for THIS for president: "
Talk about a real "hose" job!
Not true. Ever heard of common law? Besides we're just poking fun here.
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