Australian man fathers child with daughter - Times Online

Wow is all i can say wow..now i have read everything!!!

It's cool,we need a new generation of circus freaks!

Bit wrong surely, the child died because its genes were messed up, their ''healthy'' baby is going to grow up seriously messed up. Wonder what their family thinks?

The couple with their daughter Celeste and two other children from a previous relationship



Australian man fathers child with daughter - Times Online

An Australian man and his adult daughter went public about their incestuous relationship after having a baby together, as it emerged that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth.


John Deaves, 61, and his daughter Jenny, 39, have a 9-month-old daughter but have been banned from having sex after a court convicted the pair on two counts of incest.



“The couple are being monitored by the relevant authorities,” a South Australia state police spokesman told Reuters today.

The case provoked international media attention when the couple appeared on Australia’s 60 Minutes programme to explain their relationship, which began when the two were re-united eight years ago.

John Deaves left the family home when his daughter was one-year-old and did not see her again for 30 years. When they were reunited, she had already married and had two children.

But within weeks, the couple had started a sexual relationship.

“We’re normal intellectual adults who have had careers, had a normal life like everybody else but fallen in love with each other when we are biologically related,” Ms Deaves told the Nine network.


“We are just asking for a little bit of respect and understanding.”

The couple’s nine-month-old daughter, Celeste, was also on the programme and appeared to be healthy.


But the Australian Associated Press said on Monday that court documents showed they had another child in 2001 who died from congenital heart problems.

John Deaves, who is 61, said he knew it was illegal to have sex with his child but emotions soon overcame him.


“Emotions take over, as people no doubt realise, there are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, it rules the head,” he said.

“I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what."

The South Australian couple, who bear a striking resemblance to each other, were both placed on three-year good behaviour bonds on March 20 after being convicted of two counts of incest each, a spokeswoman for the South Australian Courts Administration Authority said.

Steven Millsteed, the District Judge, said the case was not typical because although father and daughter, the pair were “virtually strangers” when their relationship commenced.

“This is not a case where a father has violated his daughter and used his position of authority to take advantage of her powerlessness,” he said

This doesn't surprise me at all.

What is the point of saying the authorities are watching? They should be in jail not at home making deformed sickly babies and being "watched".

Dunno about the horsemen BP. Lot and his daughters got busy in Genesis, that's near the beginning of the book not the end lol. When you see 10 headed beasts coming out of the sea and sparing with the ho of babylon then start worry. Till then.... ain't nothing new under the sun but you and I to see it. It's all happened before.

We should send Capleton over there to bun dem out, but the poor fellow would probably have a heart attack. Too much filth even for the 'prophet' to tackle

Dutty stinkin' people dem.... ARGGGHHHH.....* Removes self*

He must have hittin' on kangaroos before she arrived.

This is the funniest/saddest/weirdest response I have read from this story.

.lol. Watch them form powerful lobbies and demand it be taught in schools.

Not to defend these people because it is plain nasty but unfortunatley this isn't as uncommon as you think. There have been many many documented cases of parents and their children being sexually attracted to each other and it normally happens if there's been a very long separation like the childs bee adopted out or lives as part of a step family and meets their parent in adulthood. Its sometimes called Oedipus syndrome of simply Genetic Sexual attraction and even happens between brothers and sisters as well as cousins who haven't grown up together.

The breakdown of the traditonal family is making this much worse. Humans are normally attracted to people most like them and who is most like you but your family? Normally if we grow up in a traditional family unit the Westermarck effect occurs which dampens the sexual bond but keeps a loving non-sexual bond. If two close reatives meet after not spending much of their early years together, although its rare they can become sexually attracted to eachother and the normal family repellent isn't there to stop them. What these people need is counselling and serious help. With the amount of men and women breeding with every tom, dick and harry and unwanted children wandering around , the likeliness they'll end up falling for and sleeping with their own relatives especially if they live in the same area and don't know them will only increase. Only a few months ago a couple's marriage was annuled by the high court after they found out they were brother and sister separated by adoption.