Incest and immorality

Incest and immorality

Titre de l'ensemble: The cruelty man

1884, the Recorder of Dublin commented with regard to the case of a fifty-year-old man charged with ‘assault to ravish his daughter: this was one of the worst cases ever proven in a Criminal Court. On submitted evidence this man was proven to have committed an act of violence, an unnatural offence on his own child, a girl of fourteen. The circumstances were unspeakably shocking. The prisoner should have been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The man received two years’ imprisonment in separate confinement; but the case is notable for four primary reasons: the judge’s reaction; the father’s defence;...

19e siècle, 20e siècle, Inceste, Violence familiale, Histoire, Morale, Famille

Ouvrier, Approche historique

Incest Act, NSPCC

Ireland