It would have been a beautiful reunion story. Last year, Penny Lawrence, 28, set out to find her birth father whom she had never met. From her home in Ireland, she was able to track Garry Ryan, 46, down in Texas. They met, connected ... and then connected a little too much. She's now pregnant with his baby.
It is beyond disturbing and completely and utterly unfathomable to me that something like this could happen, but they act as if it's the most natural, beautiful thing in the world. They say they're in love and deny that it's incest. Instead they say they are victims of Genetic Sexual Attraction. Lawrence told The Sun:
We are not committing incest, but are victims of GSA. We’ve never experienced a father-daughter relationship, so we’re just like any other strangers who meet in adulthood.
Only he's your BIOLOGICAL FATHER. You are not like strangers at all. This attraction may or may not be a real thing, I don't care. Even if you're attracted to someone, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SLEEP WITH THEM. Keep your feelings repressed and move on.
Ryan told the paper:
It’s no different than if I met Penny in a bar. I’d have fallen for her as I have now. It doesn't feel like we are doing anything wrong.
Only it's illegal ... and disgusting.
I'm sure it's tough to grow up without a father, but it still doesn't excuse or explain such a relationship. Apparently Ryan tried to marry Lawrence's mother when she first found out she was pregnant at 18, but he says her family "disapproved of the relationship and didn't want me around." Sounds like they were smart people.
If there wasn't a baby involved, I would be more willing to turn a disgusted blind eye to the whole mess, but when you bring a child into it, it's just flat-out wrong. They are clearly not mentally stable enough to serve as parents to this child, and I hope someone intervenes to see that they don't.
Do you think this father and daughter should be allowed to raise their child, who is a result of incest?
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Comments 490
Wrong ,distrubing, disgusting in sooooooooooo many years!
That is so absolutely disgusting there really are no words to describe how disgusting it is!!!!
Believe it or not, there is a prominent member of Cafemom who sees absolutely NO PROBLEM with blood relatives having a sexual relationship with each other, as long as they are consenting adults!!!!! Anybody that thinks this is okay, is sick in the head!!!! What can possibly be RIGHT about this?!? I feel so sorry for that poor baby!!
EEEWWWWWWWWWW.
Yes it's disturbing and sad. I can't quite understand how people who know they are related to each other could form a sexual relationship but I know it happens. For me there would always be that little line you don't cross even if you didn't grow up knowing the person. I guess others don't have that line or it's fuzzy and biological attraction was stronger.
A parent and child having a child does not mean they are going to have a genetic mutant as some seem to think. It increases the risk of of a gentic issue but not highly signifigantly.I'm sure they are monitoring the baby for any conditions the same as they would for any couple having an increased rate of a genetic defect. I hope nothiing is wrong with the baby. It's also not illegal.
I certainly don't see a reason why they shouldn't be allowed to raise the baby. They are both suffering from a documented condition, even if it's really hard to understand and gives most people the ick factor in a big way. The condition is no danger to the child.
oh how gross. They both need serious help.
Gross.
I just have to laugh at this line from the article the author linked to: "Garry Ryan was born in Dublin but moved to the US with his family when he was two. Lawrence's mother met him, fell pregnant but Ryan left before the child was born. "
Yup, Gary met Penny's mom and she just "fell pregnant." Hahahaha!