(submitted by gekkogecko)


ROME (Reuters) - An impotent Italian man who kept his
problem a secret from his wife until after their
wedding must pay her damages for 'eroding' her right
to have a family, Italy's Supreme Court has ruled.

The woman, identified by the Italian media as Cristina
S., was quick to get her marriage annulled in the
1990s after learning to her horror that her husband
could not consummate it.

She then demanded damages, saying she had been robbed
of her "right to sexuality" and the promise of a
family. Despite losing legal battles in lower courts,
she kept appealing, and finally the Supreme Court
found in her favour.

"Her fundamental right (was) eroded to fully realise a
family, as a woman and a wife, and eventually as a
mother," according to excerpts from the court ruling
published in Italian newspapers on Thursday.

The amount of damages will be settled by a lower court
in Sicily, where the unhappy couple were married.

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Yeah that would really suck if she's already going thru menopause.

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