Strasbourg, France, ruled Germany was entitled to ban incest.
Patrick Stuebing and Susan Karolewski, the German brother and sister who grew up apart, were reunited and then fell in love and had four children. Steubing was convicted of incest in 2005
The case led to calls for Germany to join countries such as France, Turkey, Japan and Brazil in legalising sex between relatives.
Germany, as with most of the 47 Council of Europe member states, bans consensual sexual acts between adult siblings, the ECHR said.
It also said there was not enough evidence to suggest a possible trend of decriminalisation of such acts.
The ECHR said the German courts did not convict Karolewski, who is seven years younger than Stuebing, because she has a personality disorder and was ‘only partially liable’ for her actions.
Stuebing, from Leipzig, was adopted as a child and did not meet his sister until he tracked down his natural family in his 20s.
Born in 1976, he was placed in a children’s home aged three and went to live with a foster family in Potsdam, near Berlin, four years later.
It was not until his biological mother died in 2000 that he made contact with his blood relatives and developed an “intensified” relationship with his sister in December that year.
Stuebing and Karolewski, who claim their love is not abnormal, started having sex a month later and lived together for several years. — Daily Mail.
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