I can hear the banjos in the background....

[taranaki]

Exclusive: Couple convicted of incest speaks out
Last Update: 1/30/2004 10:27:13 PM

(MOBILE, Ala.) Jan 30 - A local couple guilty of incest are out of jail, and now speaking out.

Father and daughter, Carrol and Alice Ferdinandsen, married last spring, defend their relationship.

“All we want is to be left alone,” Carrol Ferdinandsen told NBC 15 News, “so we can finish our lives together.”

Thirty-year-old Alice and 53-year-old Carroll Ferdinandsen are out of jail this week after serving six months for incest. The father and daughter married last May.

“We need to pick up our lives and start all over again," he added.

They say the half-year behind bars, and apart from each other, made their love stronger.

“It was rough, very rough,” Carrol said. “I’d see her in the halls: we really couldn't say much, but I knew it was there and that's all it took."

While Carrol was married to Alice's mother when she was born, they separated when Alice was four months old.

Carrol says he never acted as Alice's father, and was not convinced he was Alice's biological father until a DNA test confirmed it last month.

“We really didn’t know until the fifth of December that she is legally mine,” he said. “But that's just a blood test, not in feelings. I've never been in her life."

But they say even though their suspicions are now confirmed, it makes no difference.

“I would do anything for him,” Alice Ferdinandsen. “I would die for him: that's how much I love him."

“I don’t think I'm crazy crazy,: said Carrol. “I am crazy in love with her.”

Their relationship began more than 16 years ago.

“The love I felt for him started when I was thirteen,” she said. That landed Carrol in jail for second-degree rape of a minor.

“I served 9 months for that in the penitentiary,” he said. “But to me it was worth it, and our love has grown since then.”

Their relationship re-kindled seven years ago.

"We've been through hard times and good times," Alice added. "And it's just going to continue."

But now, they are court-ordered to dissolve their marriage and live apart during their three years probation: which they say they are willing to follow, as long as they remain a couple.

"There is other people who have done worse than we have,” Carrol said. “And the only two people we'll hurt is me and her . We're not taking the whole world down.”

The Ferdinandsens could also receive psychological treatment over the next three years, if their probation officers find it necessary.

Carrol Ferdinandsen says he's now also required to register as a sex offender for his rape conviction involving Alice back in the 1980s.

[eversio11]

I think I speak for everyone when I say :Puke:

[Hyatus]

So what part of the good'ol south are they from?

*Edit -sorry i didnt see that it said Mobile Alabama

[zebrathree]

I saw the thread title and thought Naki had finally gone canoeing down the Wanganui River.

[2strokebloke]

So long as they never have children, we'll still be safe.

[justacruiser]

Holy shit... and I thought marrying a cousin was wrong! Marrying his own DAUGHTER??? Does this take 'a fathers love!' and 'daddy's girl' to a whole new level?

[chicago_guy]

Her father is probably also her brother. Man, I'd expect something like this from West Virginia, but Alabama isn't too much different.

[2strokebloke]

I'd expect something like this from West Virginia

But it happens so often in West Virginia, that it doesn't make the news no more. However, in 'bama, it's still a relatively novel idear.

[GTR2b]

"If you go to family reunions to meet women... you just might be a redneck."

I can't describe just how nasty that story is.

[lordvektra]

I am no longer from Alabama

[CamaroSSBoy346]

So long as they never have children, we'll still be safe.

my mother is my sister!'

lol