A Nebraska man who married his adult daughter pleaded no contest last week to attempted incest after agreeing to a similar deal in a neighboring county.
Travis Fieldgrove, 40, is scheduled to be sentenced next month in Adams County. He had been sentenced to two years in prison earlier this year in connection with the deal he made in nearby Hall County, where he lived.
Fieldgrove and daughter Samantha Kershner were married in Adams County last year after investigators began to look into their relationship.
Kershner told police she first wanted to know the identity of her father about three years ago, and her mother arranged a meeting. They had a father-daughter relationship for several years, but it changed during Kershner’s “jealous competition with her half sister,” according to the World-Herald newspaper. Fieldgrove and Kershner would first become intimate last year, and it is believed they were wed on Oct. 1, 2018.
DNA tests proved the two were related, and both were arrested for incest in January.
“Evidence leading up to the arrest suggests that Fieldgrove and (the daughter) were aware of the biological relationship before being intimate, and further indicates that they quickly married one another after being notified of the investigation,” Grand Island cops said at the time, according to the World-Herald.
Fieldgrove’s lawyer Jeff Loeffler previously told the World-Herald that his client “suffers from a brain injury and is not a ‘high-functioning’ person.”
Kershner avoided time behind bars by pleading no contest to reduced charges of misdemeanor false reporting. She was given nine months probation.
With News Wire Services