Tourist Jailed for Oral Sex

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LL You been to Germany lately? Seems Hubby got in trouble.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - A German tourist who pleaded guilty to having oral sex in Zambia was sentenced on Thursday to six years in jail with hard labor, court officials said.

Wolfgang Seifarth, 65, was expected to appeal the sentence handed down in the southern Zambian town of Mazabuka, 60 miles from the capital Lusaka.

Magistrate Aloysius Mapate said in his ruling that oral sex was ``a gross abomination against Zambian laws.''

``This has to stop. You are now sentenced to six years (in jail) with labor,'' Mapate said, adding that he had been lenient because Seifarth was a first offender.

``Customs of other countries, which are an abomination here, must not be allowed to be practiced by tourists or anybody,'' Mapate added.

A 42-year-old Zambian woman, Laura Peters, who performed the sex act on him in a bush near Mazabuka, was not charged, according to court records.

The date of the incident was not given.

Seifarth was convicted under a Zambian morality law which outlaws ``unnatural'' sex acts and provides for a maximum jail term of 14 years.

Seifarth, who conducted his own defense, had told the court that he was not aware that oral sex was illegal in Zambia. But the magistrate ruled that ignorance of the law was no defense.

Zambian magistrates and community courts hear thousands of sex-related offences and marital disputes every year.

Zambia is by law a Christian nation, and frowns on any form of unconventional sex or sexual relationships. Last year a German citizen was deported after being found guilty of sodomy, police spokesman Lemmy Kajoba said on Thursday.

Erich Kristos, the German ambassador in Lusaka, said the embassy had offered Seifarth assistance ``as we would do to any German in trouble.'' He declined to comment on the court ruling.

-- DontSuckInGermany (sucking@fucking.com), October 28, 2001

Answers

Wait just one damn minute. This makes my blood boil! According to the Clinton precident (re Monica) that poor tourist didn't have sex at all, un-natural or otherwise. It was that woman, who had all the sex.

-- Peter Errington (petere7@starpower.net), October 28, 2001.

Ja, duss not matter. If Wolfgang had der sex with a Zambian whore, he will be dead from AIDS in 3 years.

-- (Dr Mengele @ Paraguay.plotting), October 28, 2001.

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