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.
Sure they had a lobby against it...it just took a while to dig them all up....(sorry, couldn't help myself)
Joke:
Old man: Doc, I think my wife is dead.
Dr.: What do you mean you think she is dead???
Old man: Well, the sex is still the same but the dishes are starting to pile up.
This issue is dead! It won't go anywhere!
Two guys and a gal are stranded on a desert island, with no hope of rescue. After two weeks of wild sex, the woman was so disgusted with what she had been doing with the two guys she decided to kill herself. Two weeks after that, the two guys were so disgusted with what they were doing with her, they decided to bury her. Two weeks after THAT, they were so disgusted with what they were doing with each other, they decided to dig her back up.
Jesus. What next? What other rights are they gonna take away from us, huh????
yikes ! no more sex for Susan Estrich !
< /Constitution Party >
< /"real" conservative >
ding, ding, ding, no more calls please, we have a winner!
ROTFL
ROTFL
It'll probably be legal if they marry them first. Then of course they'll have the right to all spousal benefits.
STOP IT!
(LOL)
ROTFLMAO
No kidding.
No doubt, they'll be heading to your state for relief.
No problem for the necrophiliacs. Just get five or six people to watch and call it "performance art." Then the ACLU will get on board and the Supreme Ct will rule it to be protected speech.
Well hell, there goes the weekend.
You mean you can't even have sex with a corpse? What if the corpse is over 18? What if you want to marry the corpse? I mean, according to the gay lobby, you should be free to marry any body you want.
The people of California must learn to get over their necrophobia.
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