Meanwhile, out in Deliverance country ….

Well actually, this happened in Brisbane, but its the sort of thing you’d expect to see only in those far flung redneck hillbilly valleys in the Appalachians, or the Deep South of America.

A couple has been jailed for the sexual abuse of their daughter. The 35-year-old stepfather received an eight-year prison term. The girl’s 39-year-old mother was sentenced to six months’ jail and three months’ probation.

These charmers, surely candidates for parents of the year, made a pregnancy pact to inseminate their 15-year-old daughter after bearing two biological children with congenital diseases. They wrote up a “contract” with the girl, and then tried to impregnate her using the man’s sperm, which he had masturbated into a syringe. When that didn’t work, the man began having sexual intercourse with his stepdaughter up to three times a day. And Mum wasn’t exactly passively ignoring what was going on - she offered her daughter advice on the best positions to achieve their objective of getting her pregnant.

And not only that, but prosecutors told the court that he had been sexually abusing the girl since she was 12.

The couple were eventually arrested in August 2006 after the girl confided in the family of a friend who encouraged her to go to the police. As he was being arrested, the man indignantly declared: “Did you not see the f—ing contract?”

Yet another argument for compulsory sterilisation …. there are just some people who should not be allowed to breed. Actually, these people are a strong argument for retrospective abortions, even 30 odd years after their own birth.

I don’t suppose I should be surprised at the leniency of the sentences the parents got, after all Courts have been dishing out pissweak sentences forever, but I am. Hard to imagine worse cases of abuse, by both parents, so why wouldn’t this pair of delightful human beings have gotten the maximum possible sentence?

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