Australian Family, 'The Most Incestuous' in the World?

An isolated family found living isolated in the Australian outback, contains four generations of which fourteen of the children were found to be the product of 'severe incest'. The initial couple, given the pseudonym, 'Colt', were a brother and sister who migrated from New Zealand. Law enforcement officers raided their camp, a series of ramshackle sheds and tents, with beds for 32 people, and were stunned by the appalling conditions, with no toilets or showers for the larger part. The children looked strange, 'with wonky eyes', 'low ears', 'walked with a shuffle' and 'could barely speak legible English'.

DNA test showed that a large number of them were very closely related to each other. A court case revealed that the original Colt had not only fathered a child with his sister but had also raped the child to produce another inbred child that was the half sister and niece of her half-brother.

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Now research, based on data published by the Children's Court Down Under, reveals how Tim fathered seven children - five girls and two boys - with wife June. The fiend, who died in 2009, also had multiple kids with daughter Betty and his eldest girl Rhonda, the Daily Mail in Australia reports. The 38-member Colt clan were forced to live in squalor in a sickening story of incest, neglect, and paedophilia that shocked the world when their story was first revealed. The children have since been given court appointed pseudonyms to conceal their identities. The news comes after one of the members of the family - Frank Colt - was found guilty last week of sexually assaulting a teen relative during a visit to the family farm near Yass in 2010. The offence occurred two years before shocked police discovered the clan living in an isolated camp and the defendant is now awaiting sentence. The disgusting details of the family - who moved between rural Victoria, Western Australia South Australia and the Northern Territory - have been revealed after a gagging order on their gruesome family history ceased. Their family tree shows there were four known generations who were living together, including four kids who were the great-grandchildren and grandchildren of Tim Colt. His youngest daughter had children to her brother Charlie, a court heard. DNA testing discovered 11 of those children were the product of parents who were closely related to each another, say the shocking reports. Also living in the camp were a dozen second or third-generation family members who were legally adults so not required to undergo DNA testing. Three of the late Tim Colt’s daughters have been dragged through court trials, assaulted in prison, and ostracised in communities due to their inbred children – the products of rape and sexual relations with their own father and siblings.

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In one Colt trial, Tim Colt's son Roderick was found guilty of raping his niece, who was also his half-sister. The victim, Petra, was the biological child of Tim and Bettyand was also attacked by her uncle Frank in the back seat of his car during a visit to the family farm in February 2010, for which he was convicted. She told police back in 2013 that she had never gone to school, lived "in a cult" and that "all my aunts, uncles and cousins have all been sleeping together". Betty and Rhonda's sister Martha, who openly shared a "marital bed" with her brother Charlie Colt, gave birth to five children. Their brood were likely fathered by Charlie, her own father Tim and another brother, Roderick, it was revoltingly revealed at her trial. She was slapped with a two-year prison sentence after concealing the paternity of her kids, who were all proven to be the product of sexual relations with a biological relative by DNA tests. Martha gave birth to three sons and three daughters, one of whom died, between 1988 and 2006.

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Family tree here.


How this family escaped the child protection officers' net, is anyone's guess/

It calls to mind the Barrass murders in Shropshire in which a mother killed her sons as they were the products of incest.

It follows on from shock news in 2019 that researchers discovered that over 13,000 British families are the product of 'extreme incest'.

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Scientists believe that more than 13,000 people in the UK have DNA which indicates they are the result of 'extreme inbreeding'. Analysis of the UK Biobank data-bank by researchers at the University of Queensland uncovered evidence of people with whose parents are considered to be first- or second-degree relatives. This includes children created when parents and their offspring (first degree) have a child.

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Then there is, of course, the monarchy in Europe. Academics - unsurprisingly, perhaps - discovered that the more diversely bred the monarch, the more golden the rule.

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Results show countries 'tended to endure their darkest periods under their most inbred monarchs, and enjoy golden ages during the reigns of their most genetically diverse leaders,' according to The Economist, which analysed Ottinger and Voigtländer's data. Among the best performing were King Henry VIII and Maria Theresa of Austria. Both had relatively genetically diverse ancestry - Henry VIII's parents, Henry VII and Elizabeth of York were third cousins - and were highly regarded by historians. At the other end of the scale is Charles II, King of Spain from 1665 to 1700, who was determined to be the 'individual with the highest coefficient of inbreeding', or the most inbred monarch.

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