Now we know why he was elected
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.
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Now we should outlaw this,
Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse, police said Monday.
Police spokeswoman Brenda Muntemba said a hunter found the man eating
pieces of flesh in a graveyard in Milambo,
600 km (370 miles) north of the capital Lusaka.
"The man exhumed a corpse and cut off some flesh which he cooked
in a pot and started eating ... we went to the grave of
his grandson and verified that he had exhumed the body,"
Muntemba told Reuters.
Muntemba said police had no idea why the man, who had no history of
madness, had started eating his grandson, who
died in July. The man was charged with interfering with a dead body
and also for trespass in the graveyard.
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A Spanish man tried to have his wife charged with domestic abuse
because she refused to have sex with him on five
consecutive days, Spanish newspaper El Sur reported on Friday.
The middle-aged man from Seville -- the city of Don Juan and Carmen
-- said her refusals amounted to "degrading
treatment" and domestic abuse, a term used more often to
describe wife-battering.
The judge shelved the case, Andalusia-based El Sur reported
Webmaster Note: This was the topic of conversation a couple weeks ago
at Nellos. I felt there was no way the guy
could win his case in court. I was quickly corrected by one of the
lovely waitresses at Nello's that an all male jury
would convict.
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Police in eastern India have arrested a man who chopped off his wife's tongue to stop her constant nagging.
Enadul Mullick dragged his wife Halima by the hair to the kitchen where he used a cleaver to cut off her tongue.
The 30-year-old victim has been admitted to a hospital at Barasat
near Calcutta and is reportedly fighting for her life but it's
not known whether doctors managed to reattach her tongue.
It's reported her 40-year-old husband, who runs a grocery store, was
fed up with the wife's complaints over his
meagre income.
Hindustan Times reports police spokesman Parveen Kumar telling the
Indo Asian News Service: "The couple were not
on good terms. The husband has confessed to his crime."
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A Romanian man had his testicles ripped off by his wife after she accused him of having an affair.
Fifty-year-old Aurica Marinescu from Constanta managed to call an ambulance before he passed out.
Doctors at a local hospital managed to re-attach his scrotum after a ten hour operation.
But despite his injuries, Marinescu says he won't press charges against his wife, according to the local daily Libertatea.
He said: "We were at home when we started to fight over a
so-called relationship I had with another woman. She got so
angry that she grabbed my scrotum and ripped it off.
"I wouldn't have said she was a strong woman but she was furious
and she seemed to have superhuman strength in her
anger. The pain was incredible."
The man said his wife was very passionate and added he still loved
her, which was why he did not want to cause her
any problems by pressing charges.
Webmaster Note: Ouch.