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.
Sam Kinison had an HILARIOUS comedy routine about a funeral director having sex with corpses. Anybody else out there hear it?
you guys got it all wrong,
" its no more sex with COPS "
Bill Clinton has been abiding by the letter of that law for many years.
Well, I guess Arnie loses the libertarian vote.
I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac...
damm there go's my Fri. night
They do marry dead people in France (I'm not making this up.)
When does NAMCLA (North American Man-Corpse Love Association) stage a protest?
Oh, stop it!! Gross and really disgusting. And you are going to just encourage sick jokes. I am going to bookmark this thread so I do not miss any.
This is about NECROphilia, not COProphilia...
He has a platform to run on for re-election now!!
Well there goes my idea for a necrophilia brothel in San Franscico.
Pay attractive persons while still alive to will their bodies to the brothel for the perverts to have sex with after death.
After all if homosexuality is just a human right so is Necrophilia in liberalism.
Now we know what the "preparation" for burial includes at California funeral Homes....
Bingo! No tolerance for diversity at all.
"I am not a homosexual necrophiliac" said Tom, in dead earnest....
This thread will be on "See? B.S.
They will use it against us, and call us racists.
Revenge for spilling the beans on their 60 minutes of forgery
ROTFLMAO... That's an oldie, but goody!
good thing fo Teddy Kennedy Mary Jo is not burried in California !
Doctor, I'm having that dream again." Dan Rather said.
"Oh?" The shrink replies. "Which one?"
"The one where I'm into sadism, necrophilia, and bestiality. Should I be worried or am I beating a dead horse?"
I'd like to know why it took Californicate about 130 years to codify this into law.
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