Posted on 10/29/2005 3:35:44 PM PDT by Loyalist
KITCHENER -- A Cambridge woman and her 25-year-old son were sentenced for incest and forgery yesterday for a five-year relationship that led to three more children in the family.
The 42-year-old woman was sentenced to 43 months behind bars while her son was given a 19-month conditional sentence.
They were found guilty in August of posing as husband and wife and having sex with each other between 1996 and 2001.
They cannot be named to protect the identity of their two children, who are now in foster care.
Their relationship only came to light after their third child, a 2-year-old girl, was rushed to hospital under suspicious circumstances in June 2001. The girl died from dehydration.
Her illness was later linked to an underlying medical condition -- common to children of incest -- called adrenal gland atrophy.
FALSE DOCUMENTS
Her parents were not held responsible for her death but police began an investigation that culminated in the couple's arrests on charges of incest, as well as fabricating and using false documents in an attempt to create a new identity for the son.
Justice Pat Flynn called the woman a "monster" during sentencing yesterday.
"I've never encountered a more bizarre case in my quarter-century in the law," Flynn said.
The couple actually got married and the man claimed to be his mother's husband. He even made up a new name, giving himself the title of prince. He donned a pair of glasses and adopted an English accent.
During the trial, jurors heard suspicious social workers pestered the woman for weeks to present her son and her husband together in one room.
She eventually said her son had died in a volcano in the Congo and gave up the charade only at the beginning of his sentencing hearing.
The man said that after hearing the overwhelming amount of evidence at the trial he finally believed he was actually his mother's son.
Ivan honey aren't you in the UK?
I can name about a million things that are a result of incest. . okay maybe not a million. . but a lot. . that are from the UK.
One of them in particular -- CMT -- Charcot Marie Tooth Muscular Dystrophy (which my MIL has, as does much of her family) has always been told to me that it came from "there" (being UK) due to incest.
*shrugs*
Please, correct me if I'm wrong though!
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
I'm not excusing the son, I just don't think he had much of a chance for normalcy with wacky Mom raising him.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
This is sick, but after hearing about the guy dying from getting beefed by a horse a few weeks ago, this sounds like the Cleavers home.
Well you raise a good point there. Since two homos having sex can't conceive a child, I wonder what the ethical argument could be that was discussed in committee and caused the architects of Bill C-38 (the passage of which legalized SSM in Canada) to feel it necessary to put in the 'unrelated' exclusion..... (ethics being in the eye of the beholder here). If marriage between two homos is ethical and legal, what not let two homo brothers marry each other? I tell ya, once ya get on that slippery slope....
I remember a case of mother-son incest that was discussed as part of a sociology class I was taking. The woman had her son when she was 13 or 14 and gave him up for adoption. About 20 years later the son went looking for his biological mother. He found her but she claimed to be the mother's old roommate and that his mother was dead. Well, she must have still be attractive as as relationship started and they got married. As they finished consummating their marriage, she admitted to him that she was his mother. He filled for an annulment the next day.
If two Arkansans get divorced, are they still cousins?
ROTFLMAO
It's getting even worse here. Maybe I'll come down and move into a double-wide next to the Kleenton library. lol I was just kidding anyway. You guys are all right.
Reminds me of a joke my boss tells about Louisiana. (He used to work there many years ago in the oil industry.)
In Louisiana, a son is talking to his father and telling him that he is engaged to this wonderful, beautiful girl. He continues on about how great she is and that she is a virgin. The father tells him that under no circumstances is he going to marry a girl who is a virgin. After all, "if she isn't good enough for her own family, she isn't good enough for you."
Well...that explains prince Charles.
Exactly
I just did a Dogpile search "birth defect from incest". I can't believe the # of sites which effectively say, "It ain't so bad as that." And many within that context using it to advance the gay cause.
I was over in Rogers and Springdale today. I absolutely hate going over there. Between the queers, the illegals and the trashy looking, foul-mouthed teenagers, I can't even go shopping without wanting to rip somebody's head off. I long for the days when it was socially acceptable to tell these disrespectful little hooligans that they look like idiots and act like jackasses, and when business establishments expected demanded decent behavior instead of catering to the lowest common denominator. And it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see stores with "Fashions for Fags" and window sized display ads depicting men slobbering all over other men. And I've never seen so many Mexican flags, bumper stickers, etc. And how many Mexican restaurants does one town need??? Seems there's one on darn near every corner. My question is, if they love Mexico so much, why don't they go back there? At the end of a few hours over there, I can't get home fast enough. How do you stand it day in and day out? 
I'm biding my time until I graduate...
Nice rant. I'm right in the middle of it.
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