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Europe to Couple: Incest Is Not a Human Right

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:06:00 CDT

Incest is not a human right, a European court has ruled. The not-surprising decision was passed down yesterday by the International European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, in response to a suit by a German man who has had four children with his biological sister. Dad Patrick Stuebing,...

Is Millionaire Who Adopted Girlfriend Committing Incest?

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:51:26 CST

When Florida millionaire John Goodman adopted 42-year-old girlfriend Heather Laruso Hutchins, he may have successfully protected his assets. But did he set himself up to be criminally charged with incest? Incest is, after all, defined as sexual relations between close relatives—even adopted ones, Terry L. Turnipseed explains on Slate...

For Icelandic Lovers, an Incest Database

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:07:13 CST

An Icelander's pre-date checklist: Put on a nice shirt, buy some flowers … run date's name through incest database? It sounds crazy, but with Iceland's population at just 300,000, the risk of accidentally romancing a relative is high. Íslendingabók, or the Book of Icelanders, is a website that claims...

Echoes of Fritzl: Austrian Arrested in 40-Year Incest Case

Neal Colgrass — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:02:05 CDT

Kindling memories of the infamous Joseph Fritzl case , Austrian police have arrested a man on suspicion of raping and imprisoning his daughters for more than 40 years, the BBC reports. The 80-year-old denies wrongdoing, but authorities say one of his daughters fled during an attempted rape and reported his alleged...

Man Caught Decades After Kidnapping Teen: Cops

Rob Quinn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:00:00 CDT

A man who allegedly impregnated and kidnapped a teen relative decades ago has been arrested after years on the run. The alleged victim says she was 13 when James David Gibson began sexually abusing her in Arizona in the late '70s. She says he kidnapped her and forced her to...

Trucker: I Fathered Stepdaughter's 8 Kids

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:08:00 CST

A German trucker on trial for 350 counts of sexual abuse of his children has admitted in court that he fathered his stepdaughter's 8 children—but insists he never abused her. The 48-year-old father, known as Detlef S., began sexually abusing his stepdaughter and her twin brother at the age...

New DNA Test Reveals Children Born of Incest

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:58:26 CST

Suspect your parents may have been related? Well, now you can find out behind their back, thanks to new advances in DNA testing, USA Today reports. In a study published yesterday, doctors revealed that they can now determine if a child is born of incest without testing the DNA of...

Stephanie Seymour Photos Aren't Incestuous

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:41:14 CST

The media is in a tizzy over the pictures of bikini-clad supermodel Stephanie Seymour frolicking on the beach with her “young, handsome, impeccably torsoed” … son. Immediately, websites and commenters alike were referring to their “incestuous” behavior, without stopping to consider that maybe Seymour was simply “engaging in innocent maternal...

Swiss Consider Legalizing Incest

Rob Quinn — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:51:20 CST

The Swiss parliament has drafted a law that would allow parents to have sex with their children or siblings to have sex with each other, provided everybody involved is a consenting adult. "First-degree" incest is already legal in countries including France and Russia, but the Swiss measure hasn't won widespread...