Former Iowa lawmaker charged with sex abuse of wife with dementia

[No Vested Interest]

1. Interesting case. Dr. Drew (HLN) and a panel on his program have been speaking about this

on several occasions.

It seems the wife had daughters who objected to the husband's actions, and he had either been "requested: or "told" not to have sex with his wife.

Dr. Drew believes that it is not wrong for the husband to have sex with his incapacitated wife, assuming that was a part of their regular life until her until she was in nursing care. Dr. Drew says that dementia patients can and should still have pleasure in the moment, in fact, that may be all they have.

I don't think we can know definitively if marital coitus was appropriate in this instance, but assuming the wife was not injured physically by the experience, and considering that the wife is now deceased, my opinion is to give the husband the benefit of the doubt and dismiss the case.