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01:39 AM - Don’t These Make a Cute Incestuous Couple
Category: News and Politics
I posted the story last week about Thomas Beattie, a story which transfixed the world.
But now there is a story in the news that bears for greater social ramifications than Mr Beattie’s story does.
Meet Jennifer and John Deaves.
They were both called Deaves from birth.
The
little girl in the picture is their natural child, conceived during a
sexual union between the two. This is their second child, their first
one died just after birth of a congenital heart defect. This child
appears normal.
She may grow up a tad confused on what to call her mum. Mum or grandma and well is dad, dad or is her grandpa?
Jennifer
and John Deaves are father and daughter. The resemblance is uncanny.
They began a sexual relationship and started to live together after
they were astranged for most of Jennifer’s childhood.
Last week
they went on national TV here in Australia, begging the country and
community to accept their relationship and to accept the choices they
have made to be with each other.
They have been charged and convicted of incest and ordered to stop having sex with each other.
A FATHER and daughter at the centre of an incest scandal have been condemned by their family.
John
Earnest Deaves and his daughter Jennifer Anne Deaves from South
Australia have spoken publicly about their seven-year
relationship, asking for some respect and understanding.
They
have a baby girl together and another child who died a few days after
birth from a congenital heart disease, court documents show.
But
their relationship has been slammed by Ms Deaves’ mother Joan, and by
her father’s second wife Dorothy, who also cast doubts on claims John
and Jennifer Deaves had virtually no contact for 30 years before the
relationship began.
The
couple has been serving three-year good behaviour bonds since March
this year, after pleading guilty to two counts of incest.
District
Court sentencing judge Steven Millsteed said the first count of incest
was based on an act of sexual intercourse which resulted in the birth
of the couple’s first child.
The
second count of incest related to an act of sexual intercourse which
resulted in the birth of their second child in May last year.
"The first child was born in 2001 but died a few days after birth due to a congenital heart disease,’’ Judge Millsteed said.
John Deaves’ first wife, Joan today said children deserved a better chance in life than one that originated from incest.
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They do not feel they have done anything wrong
In today’s society we are taught to accept everything. We are taught and told to accept Thomas Beattie’s choice. Now we are being asked to accept this couples choice of producing incestuous children into our society.
Where does the line get drawn or is there even a line at all. Has society gone to far? Is this what to expect in the furture as we stray further and further from a path of "nature".
Do we accept this? What help is fining this couple?