First Female Convicted for Incest in Ireland

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In Ireland, a man can be sentenced to life for incest but a woman can only be sentenced to a maximum of seven years. As if that isn't a fair deal for people who commit the same crime, there comes a story of a mother who forced her teenage son to have sex with her on four occasions over a six-year period, while abusing and starving her five other children in a rat-infested dwelling in the county of Roscommon. The woman admitted to police that her children, now aged between 10 and 19 were often "blue with cold, had dinner only twice a week and had lice crawling over their bodies." The woman admitted to being the worst mother in the world and lamented about turning the clock back. The judge told the mother that if she had been a man she would've been sentence for life. Sickening!