Incest

• Incest

• The 'ghosting' of incest and female relations in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci.

Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) belonged to that group of expatriate American women sculptors in Rome whom Henry James dubbed "a white marmorean flock." (1...

• The Art Bulletin
• Vol. 88 Nbr. 2, June 2006

• Study Finds Bedbugs Thrive Despite Incest

PITTSBURGH - Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 08, 2011

• Rape, incest, and Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird': on Alabama's legal construction of gender and sexuality in the context of racial subordination.

In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird (1) was published to significant popular acclaim: a reception that has proved enduring. Mockingbird remains one of the ...

• Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 3, September 2009

• Grand Jury Indicts Charleston Man On Charges of Incest, Sexual Assault

A Charleston man charged with incest, first-degree sexual assault and second-degree assault of a 5-year-old girl was one of 76 people indicted on felony charges by a Kanawha County grand jury this week. Frederick Thomas Butts, 41, faces 274 counts for allegedly molesting the girl over a nine-year period that began when she was 5, according to a news release from the Kanawha County prosecutor's office.

• Charleston Gazette
• January 17, 2011

• 42 CFR 50.306 - Rape and incest.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 42: Public Health

• Woman Pleads Guilty Amid Parent Incest Probe

A Buffalo woman who pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with her son has agreed to cooperate with local and federal prosecutors in incest allegations against her ex-husband in attacks on some their four children. Arrested last June, Joanne M. LaPointe, 44, pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to one count of use of a child in a sexual performance and agreed to testify against William L. Malley Sr., 49.

• Buffalo News
• May 18, 2011

• Dna Testing Could Uncover Incest

LONDON - Scientists conducting DNA tests on disabled children might inadvertently make startling discoveries of incest, sparking a range of ethical dilemmas that require guidance, doctors say. In a letter to the medical journal Lancet published on Friday, Arthur Beaudet of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and colleagues point out several thorny issues DNA experts might confront when performing genetic tests on children with developmental or intellectual problems.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 12, 2011

• Abuse Alleged After Incest Tossed -- Old Case

LITTLE ROCK - Incest charges against a man now accused of child abuse in Oklahoma were dismissed nearly two decades ago after his three young daughters didn't appear in court to testify, a Kansas prosecutor said Tuesday. The burden of proof rested on the children - the oldest of whom was 13 years old, according to court documents. The case disintegrated without their testimony, said Jennifer Brunetti, who prosecuted the 1993 case in Coffeyville, Kan. The man was not convicted of any charges in that case.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 09, 2011

• Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, and the Politics of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse and the Incest Taboo

While publicly condemned for his glib remark, Santorum was merely giving voice to the chain of implied catastrophe that the Supreme Court majority in Bowers v. Hardwick3 envisaged in 1986, that Justice Scalia, dissenting in Lawrence v. Texas? would portend later in 2003, and that the public has been lamenting for quite some time now-namely, that acceptance of same-sex relations will lead to the erosion of sexual taboos like polygamy, bestiality, and incest.

• Northwestern University Law Review
• Vol. 99 Nbr. 4, July 2005

• Family Reunited in Austria Incest

AMSTETTEN, Austria -- In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday. Details of the emotional gathering emerged as police said DNA tests confirmed Josef Fritzl is the biological father of his daughter's six children.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 30, 2008