Joanna
ira glazer wrote:
> *http://tinyurl.com/658zf
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> Schwarzenegger outlaws sex with corpses
> Fri 10 September, 2004 23:26
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> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially
> illegal in California after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a
> bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman says.
>
> 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 on Friday.
>
> 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.
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