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Schwarzenegger outlaws sex with corpses

 

 

Fri Sep 10, 6:28 PM ET

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in

California after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) 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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