Ireland: First female ever jailed for incest

Submitted by Broadsword on Thu, 2009-01-22 20:58

Article here. Excerpt:

"The 40-year-old alcoholic, from Co Roscommon, is the first woman in the history of the Irish state to be convicted of incest.

She admitted to being the worst mother in the world after putting her youngsters - who were aged between six and 15 at the time - through a harrowing catalogue of neglect, including forcing her 13-year-old son to have sex with her.

At Roscommon Circuit Court, Judge Miriam Reynolds said she would have given the unnamed woman a life sentence had she been a man but was restricted by the terms of a legal act carrying a maximum sentence of seven years for incest cases involving women."

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Not surprised though. I wonder if Ireland has other insane disparities in their laws? Maybe a woman can only get two years for murder while a man would be hanged, drawn and quartered?

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Submitted by Proud_to_be_a_man on Sat, 2009-01-24 17:01