Brother and sister, they love each other and had four children together (two disabled). And now they are fighting to legalize incest .
It is the story of Patrick Stubing and Susan Karolewski , two Germans originally from Leipzig. The two had met when they were already old enough. Patrick is now 36 years old, but at three he was placed in an orphanage due to the mistreatment he suffered from his father. At 23, he managed to track down his family and he and Susan - then 16 - fell in love.
The incestuous relationship was discovered at the birth of the first child, when a nurse suspected that the two were brothers and called the police. The situation got complicated after the second child, when Patrick was sentenced to ten months in prison for incest . And a further sentence came between the birth of the third and fourth child. Susan, on the other hand, has not been subjected to criminal proceedings because she suffers from a mild mental disorder.
Stubing spent three years in prison, the European Court of Human Rights rejected his appeal and three of the couple's children were placed in foster care , Susan was allowed to be alone with the youngest.
“ We didn't know we were doing something wrong and didn't consider the judicial consequences of our relationship. Our mother would not have approved, but the only ones who should judge us now are us, ”Patrick said in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which he also talked about the romance with his sister.
"Six months after we met our mother passed away. I became head of the family and had to protect my sister. We helped each other a lot, trust became a different kind of love and eventually our relationship became physical ," he said. said.
But a German geneticist, Juergen Kunge, told the BBC that an even more restrictive law against incest is needed because "medical research has shown that there is a greater risk of genetic abnormalities: when two brothers have children, c 'there is a 50% chance that the child is disabled ”.
(Unioneonline / L)