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KARLSRUHE, Germany, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A German brother and sister who have had four children together are fighting their conviction for incest.
Patrick S. was sentenced to 2 ½ years in 2005, Deutsche Welle reported. He has already received a suspended sentence and served 10 months for previous convictions.
Susan K. has never been given a custodial sentence because she was treated as a young offender.
While they are biologically siblings, the couple were brought up separately. Patrick, adopted by a family in Potsdam, discovered his mother and sister in 2000 when he decided to seek his biological family.
Endrik Wilhelm, a lawyer representing the couple, said they will ask the Constitutional Court to throw out Germany's anti-incest law. A number of countries, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, have already removed such laws from the books.
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