Thu Jan 18, 8:16 AM ET
DETROIT, United States (AFP) - Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.
And not the emotional kind.
The state's appeals court recently ruled that extramarital flings can be prosecuted as first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in jail.
"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in the state's criminal code.
Michigan still lists adultery as a felony, although no one has been convicted of the offense since 1971.
(AFP/File/Omar Torres)
You can imagine the uproar if it were some poor muslim/islamic state or country that enacted such legislation.They can deny the letter but not the spirit of God's law.
Michigan is probably the only state in the US that retains that law. The key is that no-one has been convicted of that offense in nearly 40 years. You bet there'd be a huge media storm if such an occurence happened today...