Wisconsin's not so new attorney general J.B. Van Hollen picks his battles carefully.
Taking a stand against necrophilia is sort of a no-brainer.
The three perverts planned to use condoms.
How responsible!
Do they get points for being safe sex advocates?
I don't think Laura Tennessen and her loved ones should be forgotten here.
It's horrible that the survivors have had to deal with the loss of Laura. Rather than grieving in peace, they have to deal with what these creeps planned to do to her body.
They also have to put up with judges that want the charges against the sickos dropped.
We're talking about the death of a real person, Laura Tennessen, and her real family members and friends. Put yourself in their place. This has to be an absolute nightmare for them.
Every necrophiliac in the world will be on a pilgrimage to Wisconsin.
Welcome to Wisconsin, necrophiliacs!
It's mind-boggling that anyone would want to interpret the provision as NOT including necrophilia.
It's time that having sex with a corpse be made illegal in Wisconsin.
I support the legislation but I think the suggested punishment is too weak.
If someone is wacko enough to want to have sex with a corpse, 6 years in prison probably wouldn't seem like a high price to pay.
Van Hollen has to get this done. He has to be aggressive.
He can't claim that he doesn't want to play politics with this one.
Are Democrats in favor of necrophilia? Is it considered an alternative lifestyle?
Taking a stand against necrophilia is sort of a no-brainer.
MADISON -- Prosecutors will appeal a court’s dismissal of charges against three men who dug up a young woman’s corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said today.
A state appeals court ruled last month that Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, the act of having sex with a dead body. A judge was correct to dismiss attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 21, it said.
Prosecutors say the three bought condoms and went to a cemetery in Cassville in southwestern Wisconsin last September to remove the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash. They did so after seeing her obituary and photo in a local newspaper.
The three perverts planned to use condoms.
How responsible!
Do they get points for being safe sex advocates?
The men used shovels to reach her burial vault but abandoned their plan after a vehicle drove into the cemetery.
Van Hollen said the Department of Justice would ask the state Supreme Court to reinstate the third-degree attempted sexual assault charges against the men. The court does not have to agree to hear the case.
I don't think Laura Tennessen and her loved ones should be forgotten here.
It's horrible that the survivors have had to deal with the loss of Laura. Rather than grieving in peace, they have to deal with what these creeps planned to do to her body.
They also have to put up with judges that want the charges against the sickos dropped.
We're talking about the death of a real person, Laura Tennessen, and her real family members and friends. Put yourself in their place. This has to be an absolute nightmare for them.
At issue is a provision in the sexual assault law saying criminal penalties apply “whether a victim is dead or alive at the time of the sexual contact or sexual intercourse.”
The appeals court said that provision was meant for cases where an assailant raped and murdered someone but prosecutors could not prove which happened first. It is not a ban on necrophilia, the court said.
Every necrophiliac in the world will be on a pilgrimage to Wisconsin.
Welcome to Wisconsin, necrophiliacs!
Van Hollen said he disagreed.
“I believe, and my office argued to the court of appeals, that Wisconsin’s current sexual assault law applies whether a victim is dead or alive, regardless of the circumstances causing the victim’s death,” he said.
It's mind-boggling that anyone would want to interpret the provision as NOT including necrophilia.
To clear up confusion in the law, Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, has introduced legislation that would make having sex with a corpse a felony punishable with up to 6 years in prison.
It's time that having sex with a corpse be made illegal in Wisconsin.
I support the legislation but I think the suggested punishment is too weak.
If someone is wacko enough to want to have sex with a corpse, 6 years in prison probably wouldn't seem like a high price to pay.
Van Hollen has to get this done. He has to be aggressive.
He can't claim that he doesn't want to play politics with this one.
Are Democrats in favor of necrophilia? Is it considered an alternative lifestyle?
2 comments:
Yeah you're right Van Hollen really digs below the surface to find important cases to bring before the state Supreme Court. There are only 16 states that have specific criminal sanctions against necrophilia. Know why ? It hardly ever happens, and there are usually more approriate penalties to bring against those who engage in it, as there are for these three misguided young men, something the judge suggested the prosecutors pursue, such as vandalism, defacing a grave , criminal mishcief, all of which would give these guys the kind of rude awakeneing they need about the folly of trying to wake the dead and have relations with them. If Van Hollen wants to get Wisconsin to join the minority of states that have necrophilia laws he should pick a better case. These guys never even touched the corpse. Let's get real the AG can find much more important issues to bring before the court; like requiring the prison system to do what it's supposed to do, rehabilitate. Do you really think locking up these failed grave robbers for 6- 10 years is going to benefit them or the taxpayers . How about coming up with a punishment that fits the crime? Like requiring them to dig graves, attend funerals , assist in an autopsy, pay restittion to the paretns of the dead girl and apologize publicly to them in court, and get some counseling about their perverse proclivities.
Your standards for defining a behavior as criminal include how often it happens?
That's nuts.
Yeah, there are penalties that cover the behavior of necrophiliacs. Unfortunately, the courts in this case don't see it that way.
If Wisconsin is going to have judges that want to let these sickos off, I think it's necessary to have legislation protecting the public from such perversion.
I find your defense of these pervs to be disturbing.
Really, really creepy.
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