Photo: ODT filesA man who took part in an incestuous relationship described in court as "aberrant behaviour" has escaped imprisonment. Counsel Anne Stevens KC highlighted the offending took place over an eight day period and the man had no prior convictions for sexual offending. “It was aberrant behaviour and it's behaviour he very much regrets.”She reminded the court that a charge of incest “qualitatively, completely different from other sexual offending” because it involved two consenting adults. When the pair were not together they sent “thousands of text messages declaring their love for eachother and discussing their relationship in intimate detail”. The forbidden love was uncovered when the woman’s boyfriend came home from night shift and became suspicious of the “overly intimate relationship” the two had formed.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 06, 2024 00:12 UTC