Posted on 10/20/2011 8:27:04 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
A popular Columbia professor was charged Thursday with incest - accused of a sick sex relationship with a female relative, prosecutors said.
Political science Prof. David Epstein, 46, bedded the young woman over a three-year period ending last year, according to court papers.
He was arraigned before a Manhattan judge on a single felony incest count.
"We ask that everyone remember that he is innocent until proven otherwise and that these allegations are nothing more than allegations," said Epstein's defense lawyer Matthew Galluzzo.
University spokesman Robert Hornsby said that Epstein "is now on administrative leave and will not be teaching students."
Epstein, who specializes in American politics and voting rights, has taught at Harvard and Stanford and often is quoted by news organizations. He also has blogged on The Huffington Post.
Sources said the victim was over 18 when the relationship began in 2006 and that the two often exchanged twisted text messages.
Epstein faces up to four years behind bars if convicted.
He was released on his own recognizance.
What’s the incest criteria in NY law..2nd, 3rd colusin?
What’s the incest criteria in NY law..2nd, 3rd cousin?
What’s the incest criteria in NY law..2nd, 3rd cousin?
“We ask that everyone remember that he is innocent until proven otherwise and that these allegations are nothing more than allegations,” said Epstein’s defense lawyer Matthew Galluzzo.
BS. He is either innocent or guilty, regardless of what a jury finds. He is PRESUMED innocent in a court of law. The lawyer doesn’t even know the law.
http://law.onecle.com/new-york/penal/PEN0255.25_255.25.html
255.25 Incest in the third degree.
A person is guilty of incest in the third degree when he or she
marries or engages in sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal
sexual conduct with a person whom he or she knows to be related to him
or her, whether through marriage or not, as an ancestor, descendant,
brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt,
nephew or niece.
Incest in the third degree is a class E felony.
Was she also arrested?
Aww come on now. It’s just another ‘choice’, another ‘alternative’ lifestyle. Why are they being so hard on the guy? It apparently was consensual and really, it isn’t anybody’s business what they did in the bedroom.
Sound familiar?
Son? Daughter? Mom?
Daughter
Guess this code doesn’t cover sexual relations with adoptive daughters in N.Y.?
Strange that this fact is not in the article.Not.
Ivy league liberal political science values!
If this ADULT woman was a victim than it must have been a rape, otherwise she's also guilty of incest.
Just from the looks of that guy, I’d pull a Monk after shaking hands with him by using a dozen wipes. One smarmy/oily/sleazy looking individual. I wouldn’t let him near our cat.
They’ll let him go. It’s the coming thing.
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