Father-Daughter Incest Couple Sentenced for Sexual Intercourse Resulting in Childbirth

April 09, 2008

There have been several cases of incest making headlines lately.  Last month, I covered a case in Germany in which a constitutional court rejected an appeal by a man - who fathered four children with his sister - who wished to overturn the country's ban on incest.  Then, last week, Gary C. King covered an incest case out of England, regarding twins who married unknowingly, only to find out later that they were committing incest.  Today, I bring you yet another unusual case, this time from Australia, that involves a father and his adult daughter who recently pled guilty to charges relating to a consensual love affair that resulted in the birth of two children, one of whom died shortly after birth.

According to court documents, John Earnest Deaves, 61, and his daughter, Jennifer Anne Deaves, 39, began their incestuous relationship roughly eight years ago.  The two had little contact before that, as Jennifer's mother, Joan, divorced John following his arrest and imprisonment on charges stemming from an armed robbery he committed when Jennifer was a toddler.  When father and daughter became reacquainted in 2000, John was living with his third wife, Dorothy, and their child.  Jennifer was also married and was living with her husband and two children, now aged 9 and 14, in Sydney, New South Wales. 

Both John and Jennifer's marriages were strained, and shortly after their reunion, Jennifer moved in with John so she could reassess her marriage.  During her stay at her father's house, the couple began to feel an attraction to each other but initially brushed it off.  However, later that year, they went on a vacation together, and upon their return, they ended both of their marriages and commenced living together as a couple.

"When they got back here, he informed me it was the best sex he ever had," John's ex-wife, Dorothy, told News.com.au, adding, "If that doesn't degrade you, I don't know what does.  It was my second marriage, and you feel like you get a very poor opinion of yourself."

Regardless of how outsiders viewed the relationship, John and Jennifer were supposedly happy in love and had difficulty understanding why they were so misunderstood.

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Comments

[Shaina]

"When they got back here, he informed me it was the best sex he ever had," John's ex-wife, Dorothy, told News.com.au, adding, "If that doesn't degrade you, I don't know what does. It was my second marriage, and you feel like you get a very poor opinion of yourself."
I agree with this woman its absolutely nauseating.
Since times immemorial incest has existed,i find it repulsive to even contemplate having an afair with my father/brother its wrong and totally immoral in my eyes.

[Shaina]

"When they got back here, he informed me it was the best sex he ever had," John's ex-wife, Dorothy, told News.com.au, adding, "If that doesn't degrade you, I don't know what does. It was my second marriage, and you feel like you get a very poor opinion of yourself."
I agree with this woman its absolutely nauseating.
Since times immemorial incest has existed,i find it repulsive to even contemplate having an afair with my father/brother its wrong and totally immoral in my eyes.

[Suzan]

This is so wrong on so many different levels, I don't know where to start. I know that in simple psychology we often are attracted to a face that has features such as our own (or family). Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but we are also known to repeat abusive patterns learned in the early formative years. Thus the answer to: "why do I always pick abusers" for mates. My personal opinion is: in addition to the genetic predisposed qualification of attraction, these couples highlighted on the show 60 minutes (yes, I followed the link and watched the entire piece) were also estranged from the father. I cannot help but think this woman is attempting to recapture what was missing from her youth. We know that as females we often pick mates that mirror our father image...apparently the law in place is not stiff enough to ward off those immoral ill placed impulses. She sure missed her father (apparently), and he borderlines a pervert. The show also highlights the child that came out of this union as normal 'and no one is hurt' but it fails to mention the child that died earlier on in the relationship as a result of genetic problems. The blatant disregard of human suffering does not seem to enter into their minds. The whole story sickens me, and a well placed 'air yack' is noted* The story reminds me of a show I saw on X files, where Mommie was kept under a bed on a coaster, while her doting deformed sons carried on their family tradition. oh...air yack again.. Scully..

[ray]

i dont see any thing wrong here there both adults so whats the big deal. just because there father and daughter all of a sudden it must be wrong, that doesnt make sense. if you think that its wrong then keep you opinions to yourself.

[Briana]

what a bizarre case!

[Mike]

In fact, for me i'm not suprise at all about this incest cases, because since evolution remains in our boilogical world such things could happend easily. We now have men marring men, women marrying women and fighting over their constitutional rights. So abnormality of the love between father/ daughter could also flatuate. The question is, how best can humans resist temptations? I think all this people are victims of that power of temptation- because they even don't have idea of what they are doing. We only critized them because of the sex involved, but there is something to it than that. I hope everyone should see them as sicks who needs help not prison. Secondly, we should not judge them because who knows? you can fall into thesame mess if you happend to get into that trap.

[justine]

There are some boundries that are not ment to be brocken.
a child is born with a inate feeling and longing to be loved by mother father.....
If a knowing adult abuses that trust this, is the worst betrayel of this trust.
When the biological perpatrater tell the child "this is the waye mom,dad ect show love" and something to that effect what more does the child know but to seek the only love that is offered the child.
incest even when consentual one must wonder why over all the non biological lovers one can choose why must it be biologically based.
there are diffrerences between thoughts and actions. once we cross that line it can have very disturbing consequences for all parties involed.