{"id":49402,"date":"2015-04-16T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_strange_but_important_case-sex_dementia_and_a_husband_on_trial_at_age_78\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:00:17","slug":"a_strange_but_important_case-sex_dementia_and_a_husband_on_trial_at_age_78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49402","title":{"rendered":"A Strange but Important Case&#8211;Sex, Dementia and a Husband on Trial at Age 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no question that Donna Lou Rayhons had severe Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In the days before being placed in a nursing home in Garner, Iowa, last year, Mrs. Rayhons, 78, could not recall her daughters\u2019 names or how to eat a hamburger. One day, she tried to wash her hands in the toilet of a restaurant bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>But another question has become the crux of an extraordinary criminal case unfolding this week in an Iowa courtroom: Was Mrs. Rayhons able to consent to sex with her husband?<\/p>\n<p>Henry Rayhons, 78, has been charged with third-degree felony sexual abuse, accused of having sex with his wife in a nursing home on May 23, 2014, eight days after staff members there told him they believed she was mentally unable to agree to sex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/14\/health\/sex-dementia-and-a-husband-henry-rayhons-on-trial-at-age-78.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the New York Times.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no question that Donna Lou Rayhons had severe Alzheimer\u2019s. In the days before being placed in a nursing home in Garner, Iowa, last year, Mrs. Rayhons, 78, could not recall her daughters\u2019 names or how to eat a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49402\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,103,175,168,104,114,98,177,129,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}