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David Epstein Incest Charges: Columbia Professor Charged With Sleeping With Daughter
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Posted on 12/10/2010 8:51:15 AM PST by mimi from mi

A Columbia political science professor has been charged with having a sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter, the Columbia Daily Spectator reports.

David Epstein, 46, was charged Thursday with one count of third-degree incest. Police told the Spectator that the relationship appeared consensual.

Epstein is currently on administrative leave.

According to the New York Daily News, Epstein and the woman had a three-year sexual relationship and often exchanged "twisted text messages."

The Spectator reports that Epstein is married to another Columbia political science professor, Sharyn O'Halloran, though a recent update to his Facebook page says he is single. The couple was featured in a 2008 Spectator article about professors who "bring love to work."

"Our complementary skills lead to a great partnership," O'Halloran told the Spectator.

One student described Epstein, who was teaching a class on game theory this semester, as a "very nice guy." Outside of his professorial duties, Epstein also blogged for this website, on topics ranging from torture to Sarah Palin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/david-epstein-incest-char_n_794864.html?ir=New%20York


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To: muawiyah

That’s a lengthy article about a guy named Bruce. This is a thread about a man named Epstein. What’s the connection?

Bruce began his affair with his daughter in 1998 when she was at college. The girl in the thread article is 24 years old.


21 posted on 12/10/2010 9:20:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: mimi from mi

Many years ago this situation existed between a father and adult daughter with whom I had a professional acquaintance. It ended in a murder suicide.


22 posted on 12/10/2010 9:21:05 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: mimi from mi

But...but...isn’t this his lifestyle choice? How dare people judge his love, forcing him to live a lie? /sarc/


23 posted on 12/10/2010 9:22:33 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: mimi from mi

Heard on the Hudson:

“Row faster. I hear banjos.”


24 posted on 12/10/2010 9:23:07 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: dfwgator
While the royal families of Europe did indeed marry 2nd and 3rd cousins quite often, there were specific rules against “consanguinity” or being too closely related.

The twit pictured, future King of England, has one of the best known human pedigrees out there, and there is NOT that much consanguinity in the family history.

Much ado about nothing was made of the problems of Hemophilia among the children of Queen Victoria, and often people who don't know any better talk about inbreeding. That was NOT the problem. You didn't need to inherit two copies to be a hemophiliac, you just needed one copy on your X chromosome if you are a male.

The problem with Queen Victoria having a mutation on her X chromosome for a blood clotting factor was not due to or exacerbated by inbreeding.

But BECAUSE the royals all married among each other, at the start of WWI, the Czar of Russia, the King of England, and the Kaiser of Germany were all cousins, and all descendants of Queen Victoria - and the Czar's heir was a bleeder.

25 posted on 12/10/2010 9:28:24 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Rebelbase
Many years ago this situation existed between a father and adult daughter with whom I had a professional acquaintance. It ended in a murder suicide.

"Janie's got a gun..."

26 posted on 12/10/2010 9:30:58 AM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

If she was an adult, if he committed incest, didn’t she as well?


27 posted on 12/10/2010 9:31:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: mimi from mi

Is the “daughter” his biological child, or the child of his wife, fathered by another...?


28 posted on 12/10/2010 9:31:22 AM PST by mmercier (strange and simple rules)
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To: mimi from mi

Could you furnish a source link? Thanks.


29 posted on 12/10/2010 9:32:39 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: muawiyah

Now that is a zinger of a story.


30 posted on 12/10/2010 9:33:12 AM PST by baltoga
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To: a fool in paradise
Bruce was rich. You'd better believe this Epstein guy is rich too ~ just check out what he and his last current wife were up to.

Money can buy you a lot of stuff ~ including, apparantly, a daughter in the sack.

You didn't think this was about some poor guy living in a flop house did you?

31 posted on 12/10/2010 9:35:44 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: mimi from mi

This is sick, but I’m surprised that it’s illegal.


32 posted on 12/10/2010 9:57:11 AM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: mimi from mi

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/fac-bios/epstein/faculty.html

Photo of the nasty piece of work!


33 posted on 12/10/2010 10:03:21 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: mimi from mi
If it was consensual,and is a crime ,then the woman(daughter) should be charged as well.

D*mn double standards.

But if the daughter was actually fathered by another man,i.e. is a step-daughter,then it may still be icky,but there is no inbreeding,so why bother with them?

34 posted on 12/10/2010 10:14:20 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: a fool in paradise
Where is the "between consenting adults" crowd on this one?

They are busy sbmitting approving comments on HuffPo:

"[I] say just as long as they are doing proper family planning (that is, various forms of birth-cont­rol) to make sure they do not produce an offspring, which would be high-risk for a myriad of genetic disorders, I see no crime.

Gross? Yes. But, sometimes-­-especiall­y in a free republic--­you have to put aside universal morality and just let people live their lives. We are no longer a Puritan society."

-- holierdandao

"Public shame will be sufficient to end this. It is not a viable coupling. Apparently it's an issue between consenting adults. I'm not sure on what principles the charges would be, considerin­g that law would have to arbitraril­y override individual liberty of consenting adults. They do it already with prostitute­s and their patrons, but consenting adults should not be charged with crimes for what they agree to do."

-- HUFFPOST SUPER USER Balzac


35 posted on 12/10/2010 10:16:32 AM PST by Iron Munro (This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
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To: sodpoodle

Classic butt kisser pose. Interesting that his “wife” is not listed in the political science faculty directory. Hmmmmm.


36 posted on 12/10/2010 10:24:58 AM PST by miele man
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To: mmercier
Is the “daughter” his biological child, or the child of his wife, fathered by another...?

Hey wait - good point - much much less Ick in that scenario.

But I gotta think that if that was the case there would not be this fuss. Is that even incest?

37 posted on 12/10/2010 10:29:52 AM PST by corkoman
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To: 3niner

***This is sick, but I’m surprised that it’s illegal.***

Our Judeo Christian laws were built on morality and acceptable behavior towards one another. Adultery and incest are two of the most destructive behaviors to a successful civilization.

http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/7laws.html


38 posted on 12/10/2010 10:37:37 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: mimi from mi
Police told the Spectator that the relationship appeared consensual.

She's 24? Why wasn't she arrested too?

39 posted on 12/10/2010 10:40:22 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: sodpoodle
Adultery and incest are two of the most destructive behaviors to a successful civilization.

Is adultery illegal? There are other destructive sexual behaviors which are not illegal, also. This is why I'm surprised.

40 posted on 12/10/2010 10:43:01 AM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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