Arnie outlaws sex with corpses

SAN FRANCISCO – Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman says.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts. “Nobody knows the full extent of the problem…But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it,” said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.The state’s first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a four-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.- Nampa-Reuters”Nobody knows the full extent of the problem…But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it,” said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia.The state’s first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a four-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.- Nampa-Reuters