A MAN who fathered four children with his sister has lost his bid to have incest made legal.
German couple Patrick S, 31, and his sister, Susan K, were seeking a legal declaraton that brothers and sisters have a right to sexual relations with one another. See Patrick S and Susan K here.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled 7-1 that the law against incest was designed to guard families against the damaging effets of incest, and protect the "weaker" partner in incestuous relationships, the Associated Press reported.
It also raised concerns that children born from incestuous relationships have greater risk of genetic abnormalities. Two of Patrick S and Susan K's children are handicapped.
The couple did not grow up together. They met in 2000 when Patrick S, who had been adopted as a baby, found his birth mother and sister.
German media has reported that Patrick S began caring for his Susan K, now in her early 20s, when she was orphaned by the death of their widowed mother at 50.
Intimacy followed, and they now have four daughters aged between six years and 34 months, the Associated Press reported.
Susan K also had a child by another man whom she met while Patrick S was serving a 25-month jail term for incest.
Patrick S now faces an additional 30-month sentence because he refuses to end his relationship with Susan.
Susan K has received a first conviction of incest and was placed on probation for one year.
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