An Australian man and his adult daughter went public about their relationship after having a baby together, as new revelations emerged on Monday that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth.
John Deaves, 61, and his daughter Jenny, 39, have a 9-month-old daughter but have been banned from having sex after a court convicted the pair on two counts of incest, placing them both on a three-year good behavior bond.
"The couple are being monitored by the relevant authorities," a South Australia state police spokesman told Reuters on Monday.
The incest case sparked national media attention when the couple went on the Nine television network's 60 Minutes program to publicly explain their relationship, which began when the two were re-united about eight years ago.
John Deaves left the family home when Jenny Deaves was 1 year old and did not see his daughter for 30 years. She had married and had two children by the time she met up with her father again.
But within weeks of reuniting, the couple started a sexual relationship, in a case psychologists label as "genetic sexual attraction".
"We're normal intellectual adults who have had careers, had a normal life like everybody else but fallen in love with each other when we are biologically related, when we've discovered each other later in life," Jenny Deaves told the Nine network.
While their daughter, and Jenny Deaves' two children by her former marriage, are healthy, AAP on Monday said court docum
