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| 2004-09-14 |
| Something You Can't Do in California... 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. There goes my spring vacation |
| Posted by:Wierd Al |
| #13 The ACLU Probate Division will challange the law as it deprives the dead of equal sexual rights. |
| Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2004-09-14 8:03:11 PM |
| #12 So much for the Grateful Dead. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-14 7:04:01 PM |
| #11 Eeeewwww - Reminds me of Katie Couric's on-air nightmares regarding Michael "Jabba" Moore... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-14 5:35:45 PM |
| #10 jules187 - Thanx - that's it. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-14 5:34:02 PM |
| #9 High Spirits? |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-14 5:28:40 PM |
| #8 Gone With the Titanic |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-14 5:27:42 PM |
| #7 What was the movie wher Steve Gutenburg has sex with an Irish ghost played by Darryl Hannah who materialized as a decomposing corpse (It was a comedy) |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-14 5:11:57 PM |
| #6 breaking and entering? Eeeeew! /Sorry, I couldn't resist |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-09-14 5:07:17 PM |
| #5 It disturbs me that we even have a word for sex with a corpse. It bothers me even more that I know the word and that its taken until now to write up a law on the matter. I guess back in the old days you didn't need a law cause noone would do it, or noone would complain when the offender was shot because 'he needed killin.' |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2004-09-14 4:00:57 PM |
| #4 Did Leno cover this in his monologue? He and our Terminatin' governor are "drinkin buddies". |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-14 1:42:13 PM |
| #3 I hope the bill clearly distinguishes betweens corpses and those who just lie there unmoving. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-09-14 1:36:27 PM |
| #2 There goes the Dais La Muerte celebrations. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-09-14 1:04:56 PM |
| #1 Well, there goes my Living Dead Girl |
| Posted by: Rob Zombie 2004-09-14 1:00:53 PM |