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Romanian Girl Impregnated By Relative
Last week it was Polish 14-year-old who was caught in a choice battlefield, and now, news of a pregnant by rape 11-year-old Romanian girl has hit the international news wires. The legal time limit for abortions in Romania is 14 weeks, and because this girl is, you know, eleven, she didn't realize she was pregnant until her parents took her to the doctor because she was feeling sick, the Guardian reports. (At least that's better than Romania under Communist rule — as the drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days made disturbingly clear — abortion was completely illegal back then.) Oh, and if this story couldn't get any sadder, the man who raped this tween is her 19-year-old uncle, who has subsequently disappeared. Now 20 weeks pregnant, the girl's parents want her to travel to Britain, where the abortion limit is 24 weeks, and a wealthy Romanian living in England has volunteered to pay for her plane fare. So what's the problem? Romanian government committees disagree about what the girl should be allowed to do. More »
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"Does The Horrific Taste Of Vagina Become Less Vomitous As I Get Used To Oral?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Molly to my Nomi, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like smegma, internet sex, and incest. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
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Texas Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of FLDS; Children Will Likely Be Returned
The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints minors who were seized from the cult's Texas compound will be Yearning For Zion no longer — the Texas Supreme court has upheld a lower court's decision, and declared that the removal of children from the FLDS stronghold was unwarranted. Church spokesman Rod Parker says, "at this point there is no legal basis to hold anyone," and he wants the children to be reunited with their parents as soon as possible. What happens next is not entirely clear, according to the Los Angeles Times, because while the removal of the children was ruled unwarranted, the state is still allowed to "take other measures to protect [the children] while [the trial court] deliberated." Those measures, legal experts believe, could include requiring parents to stay in the area and/or move out of the Yearning For Zion ranch in addition to further DNA testing, the L.A. Times reports. More »
flowers in the cellar
Paparazzi Hound Rape Victim Elisabeth Fritzl Into Public Press Appearance
Celebrities know what they're getting into, paparazzi apologists will argue, dismissing the constant haranguing mega-stars and their reality TV counterparts experience at the hands of photographers. But Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in the family cellar for 24 years by her deranged father, Josef, and in the meantime impregnated with seven children against her will, never asked for any publicity, and yet, photographers are camped outside the private hospital she's been living in since she and her children surfaced last month. Elisabeth has reportedly agreed to a television interview, and people close to the case think she has submitted to a public appearance merely to get rid of the constant swarm of aggressive lensmen. Seventeen photographers have been arrested so far, according to the Daily Mail, and just this past weekend "a security guard at the hospital was injured after he fell from a balcony while tackling a photographer." More »
Attorney Rudolf Mayer will use an insanity defense with client Josef Fritzl , the evil Austrian who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in the family basement and fathered 7 children by her. "I believe that the trigger was a mental disorder, because I can't imagine that someone has sex with his own daughter without having a mental disorder," Mayer said, according to the AP. Mayer plans to push for Fritzl's internment in a psychiatric institution as opposed to a jail, if certified insane and convicted. In other Fritzl news, Josef's sister-in-law, Christine, has spoken out against him, calling him a "tyrant" and saying that her sister, Josef's wife Rosemarie, was too terrified of her husband to ever cross him. She even stuck by Fritzl when he was convicted of raping a nurse in 1967. Christine says Rosemarie only cared about their children and with the recent, horrific revelations of recent weeks, "For sure, the world has collapsed for her." [AP via CNN, AP via MSNBC]
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P.S. No animals were drugged in the making of this video.
"Should I Tell My Boyfriend About My Incest Fantasies?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the wind beneath my wings, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like incest fantasies, rape fantasies, and friends with bad teeth. (And this time, someone sent us dick pics!!!) Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)P.S. No animals were drugged in the making of this video.
House Of Horrors
More news is coming out about Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless dungeon for 24 years. Firstly: DNA tests confirm that Fritzl is the father of the seven children birthed by his daughter, Elisabeth. (Three of whom recently emerged from the dungeon to see natural daylight for the first time.) The eldest of the children, 19-year-old Kerstin, is in a coma at the hospital. Her condition is the result of a lack of oxygen. As for Elisabeth, one police officer who saw her says of the 42-year-old woman: "She has been so starved of sunlight that her skin and hair were pure white and she had to shield her eyes from the light." There are many more details, including pictures of Fritzl's underground lair, with its sad tile and creepy/tragic kiddie animal stickers. [Times, Telegraph, Telegraph, Guardian, BBC, Daily Mail]
flowers in the cellar
Austrian Man Locked His Daughter In The Basement For 24 Years
Upon first reading the horrific story of 73-year-old Austrian Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter, Elisabeth, in the family cellar in 1984 and proceeded to allegedly father as many as seven of her children, my reaction was damn, that is some V.C. Andrews shit. But then I read more of the reports, and I can no longer relate Fritzl's crime to a campy, pop culture artifact: Keeping your daughter and half of her children locked for over two decades in what authorities describe as a damp, narrow "series of underground rooms equipped for sleeping and cooking," according to the BBC, is nothing short of evil. CNN reports that on August 8, 1984 Fritzl's daughter, the now 42-year-old Elisabeth, was enticed by her father "into the basement, where he drugged her, put her in handcuffs and locked her in a room." Elisabeth, who had been sexually abused by Josef since she was 11, was reported missing two weeks later. More »
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This Week We Hung Out With A Lot Of Child Molesters
- We were so into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and their Yearning For Zion Ranch, where girls in their early teens get married off to gross molesty old men with multiple other wives, none of whom are allowed to wear red because that's Jesus' color.
- Are those teens better, or worse off than the brave 8-year-old Yemeni girl name Nojoud Muhammed Nasser who was married off by her crazy homeless father, but has now successfully filed for divorce.
- A study in contrasts: the marriage of Nojoud Muhammed Nasser versus the insane Southern belles of MTV's True Life who call themselves "old maids" at age 24.
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Incest: It's Just What "Normal, Intellectual" Couples Do!
If you haven't yet heard the love story of John and Jenny Deaves, the Australian father-daughter pair that also happen to have a kid together, well...you haven't been creeped out enough today so let's get to that! John and Jenny Deaves, 61 and 39, respectively, met each other later as adults, fell in love, and ended up making eight-month-old daughter/granddaughter named Celeste. Because that is illegal, they're being watched by police, and decided to tell their story to Australian TV in a plea to just get everyone off their backs. But then it turned out that they were lying and that actually when Jenny was fifteen she went to visit her dad with one of his various ex-wives and then that marriage mysteriously fell apart, and that also, a kid they had seven years ago died of congenital heart failure. "We're normal, intellectual adults," Jenny claims on the somewhat mesmerizing video. (Hey, wonder if she read that other thing you get when you Google News search "intellectual" and "incest"!) More »
In the biggest nightmare scenario ever, a pair of twins separated at birth married each other. The man and wife did not discover their shared DNA until after they were hitched. According to a Member of Parliament familiar with the case, the twins "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation." Ugh. We feel so bad for these Flowers in the Attic, but still: Ew. [BBC News]
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