LadyGardenSnake |
09-21-2004 10:17 AM |
The Cannibal Defense
"A cook beheaded his girlfriend with an axe, sliced off her left breast and ate it ? claiming it was what she wanted. Frank Koening, 27, killed pregnant Peggy Litz, 21, believing she was unfaithful. He told police: 'She said I should eat the breast in front of her.' But cops in the eastern German state of Saxony say she was dead before her breast was removed with a butcher's knife." ?The Sun (UK)
Anyone with the least amount of perspicacity saw this one coming. Earlier this year German cannibal Armin Miewes avoided a life sentence by claiming that his victim wanted to be killed and eaten. Miewes had compelling evidence to back up this claim ? a videotape in which he and the victim chop off the latter's penis, cook it, and try to eat it. Yes, that's right, both of them tried to eat it ? the victim too.
Now who can doubt that every ne'er-do-well cannibal that comes along is going to try the same defense? "I don't eat people, I just fulfill their desire to be eaten." At least Miewes had incredible evidence establishing the validity of his defense. This cannibal ? a chef who chewed up the left breast of his pregnant girlfriend ? doesn't seem to have any evidence at all. "She wanted it," he says. Yeah, right. What she wanted was to nourish her baby with her breast milk, not to feed her creepy boyfriend with her breast.
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