This German incest couple is fighting the law against the ban on incest relationships. Fighting the law over the years and spending quite some time in jail, the incest couple now shares 4 kids out of which 2 of them are disabled. The brother-sister duo does not believe that their relationship has anything to do with their kids' disability and justifies it by saying that many kids in their family were born disabled including their own siblings.
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Patrick Stuebing, a German man who shares four kids with his sister is fighting the law that has made their relationship illegal.
Stuebing, 44, says that an incest conviction has challenged his human rights with his younger sister Susan Karolewski, 37.
Reportedly, Stuebing was adopted as a child and did not meet his sister until he searched for his biological family in his 20s.
According to Daily Mail, the man then moved into his mother's home, and then only a month later, Stuebing started having sex with his sister.
Soon, they were embroiled in a romantic relationship.
The couple has been defending their relationship for years and shares four kids out of which two of them are disabled.
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According to the outlet, Stuebing previously said the following about his relationship with his sister, "'We do not feel guilty about what has happened between us. We want the law which makes incest a crime to be abolished.'
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Stuebing was reportedly the third kid out of eight siblings. He remembers his father being a violent man, who has now passed away.
Stuebing shares that he once attacked his father with a knife when he was three, He was made a ward of court and then adopted.
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Speaking of their children, Stuebing said, "Two of our children are disabled. But that is not necessarily anything to do with the fact that we are siblings."
"There are other disabled people in our family. We had six brothers and sisters who did not survive in some cases because they were disabled," he added.
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The two were tried for incest in 2002 when the district court in Leipzig heard how Stuebing "had only at the beginning bothered using condoms."
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Stuebing received a year's suspended jail term after he was found guilty on all counts.
Meanwhile, Karolewski was treated as a juvenile and placed in the care of youth services.
Later, when the duo had two more kids, the court sentenced Stuebing to ten months in prison.
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Facing a ban from the law, the incest couple once again found themselves in court in 2005 on account of their other daughters, and Stuebing was sentenced to two and a half years for re-committing incest.
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