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Friday, July 27, 2007

Not even the sexy dead have rights in Wisconsin

Yep, in a bizarre travesty of justice, Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke had the sexual assault charges against them dropped because Wisconsin doesn’t have any necrophilia laws.

From the Star Tribune:

Three men who dug up a young woman’s corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

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The appeals court said the law was ambiguous but the most reasonable interpretation was that it does not ban necrophilia. Instead, the court said, the law was meant to make sure prosecutors could bring sexual assault charges in rape-murder cases in which the victim ends up dead.


Ewww, WTF? Drop the charges and commit these three then. There is something really mis-wired in the heads of people who would think that sex with a corpse - no matter how sexy she may have been - is a good idea.

What’s worse is that the defense doesn’t think anything should be done about this sort of thing.
Defense lawyer Suzanne Edwards, who represents Nicholas Grunke, said the appeals court made the proper ruling. She called instances of necrophilia “extremely rare” and said she doubted a criminal ban was needed.


So what then? Whenever that rare somebody does something like this, you just shake your finger at them and let them continue their business? I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just too old fashioned.

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I am sure that these three were just trying to get her ghost to fighten away a land developer right now.

And they would have gotten away with it if not for these meddling kids…

Justin B. on July 28, 2007 at 08:57 pm

What ever happened to laws against desecrating graves or vandalizing or desecrating human remains? angry


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Anna on July 28, 2007 at 09:25 pm
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Personally, I would charge(nail?) them for non-consensual sex with someone of diminished capacity.

FlyOnTheWall on July 30, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Maybe their lawyer will charge an arm and a leg.


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Anna on July 30, 2007 at 12:31 pm
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Maybe their lawyer will charge an arm and a leg.

Anna: I figured you’d have some skin in this game!



Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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Proof on July 30, 2007 at 12:41 pm
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Anna nails it.  Exactly how is it legal to dig up someone’s grave on private property and desecrate remains?

Of course, this IS the state that’s considering a $15 billion program to create single badger health care.

Robert Perry on July 31, 2007 at 01:50 pm
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