Father and daughter have child

Taken from Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
APP - April 7, 2008

A South Australian woman has given birth to her father's daughter after the couple had sex.



John and Jenny Deaves reunited 30 years after Mr Deaves separated from Jenny's mother.

Jenny was 31 and, just two weeks after meeting, father and daughter had sex.

"John and I are in this relationship as consenting adults," Mrs Deaves told the Nine Network last night.

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

Their 11-month-old daughter Celeste, shown on TV, appears fit and healthy.

Ms Deaves said soon after reuniting with her father she began to see him as a man first and her father second.

"I was looking at him, sort of going, 'Oh, he's not too bad.'

"Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub."

Ms Deaves brought two children, Samantha and Alex, into the relationship after splitting from her former partner.

Mr Deaves admitted that he "initially" thought having sex with his daughter was wrong.

"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."

Ms Deaves said the physical relationship with her father was like "a sexual relationship with any other man".

For Mr Deaves the sexual relationship was "absolutely fantastic".

A South Australian police media spokesman said: "The couple is being monitored."

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LATEST UPDATE 08.04.08: latest court transcripts have revealed that the father and daughter had another baby seven years ago, who died from a congenital heart defect.

I just hope that the new baby does not have the same defects. This is why it is very wrong to marry family members - firstly it is morally wrong but also there is a big chance that the genes of the two parenst will be too close and the ofspring will have defects/ suffer from mutations.