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Lawmaker Faces Charges for Bedding Wife with Dementia

An Iowa state lawmaker will stand trial for sexual abuse in the third degree for having sex in a nursing home with his wife, whom he was told was no longer mentally capable of legally consenting to have sex. So reports the Associated Press.

The wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, was moved into a nursing home by her daughters from a previous marriage. Iowa law makes it a crime to have sex with someone you’re not living with as husband and wife if one person "is suffering from a mental defect or incapacity which precludes giving consent." The accused, Henry Rayhons, could face up to ten years in prison if he’s convicted.

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