Here's a riddle...straight from today's headlines

[Maddy McCall]

I am not going to post a link until everyone has had a chance to figure this out. Don't google it--see if you can figure this out:

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A member of Utah's polygamous Kingston clan was sentenced Monday to a year behind bars for taking as his wife a 15-year-old cousin, who was also his aunt.
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Ok, DUers, untangle the branches on this family tree!

[LearnedHand]

1. Easy one:

She's the child of an aunt or uncle, and thus is his cousin, and is also already married to another uncle, and thus is his aunt.

On edit: Gross!

[onebigbadwulf]

2. Mormons aren't allowed to divorce

So that doesn't make sense.

[LearnedHand]

5. Didn't say anything about divorce!

"...Utah's polygamous Kingston clan..."

[BrotherBuzz]

8. mormons do divorce...

especially when spouse falls out of the church...

[ironflange]

3. Simple

His ol' daddy is married to his new wifey's sister, or his mom is married to the girl's brother. The former is by far the most likely.

[onebigbadwulf]

4. I think...

His grandfather married his aunt.....(so a guy married his own daughter)



So if grandpa has a girl... that makes her his aunt.

And if his aunt has a girl... that makes it his cousin.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Here's the answer

Jeremy Ortell Kingston pleaded guilty to incest in an arrangement with prosecutors. The felony charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor if Kingston successfully completes three years' probation.

"I realize that I was the adult, she was the minor," said Kingston, 32, addressing Judge Michael Burton in the packed courtroom before being sentenced. "I would like to tell her I am truly sorry for the mistake I made."

Kingston was 24 when he took LuAnn Kingston as his fourth wife in 1995. Their mothers are sisters and his father is her half brother. Family members say he has at least 17 children. His legal wife and four of his children attended the hearing, but did not speak to reporters.

Link: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2004/jan/26/012607753.html

[Exultant Democracy]

7. WTF

So that means that Father is his mothers nephew also, right?

[BrotherBuzz]

9. He could become his own grandpa

I'm My Own Grandpa


It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

[bubblesby2002]

10. Sorry....

don't want to solve the riddle. This is just sick sick sick sick. And the fact that he's like 32 and she's 15 is sick. What an asshole.:puke: :puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. I posted this on another thread, but I have a cousin who is my aunt

This guy's familial relationships are obviously all messed up, and this family needs some serious psychological work, but my cousin - my mother's niece - married my dad's brother, hence making her my aunt and my cousin (and my uncle my cousin; and my dad his own brothers uncle; and my mom's sister her (my mom's sister) sister-in-law to her son-in-law's brother.

:-)