Rob Fox
Jesus Christ, Nebraska. This is the type of thing you’d expect to hear about Alabama. If you were watching a really mean-spirited cartoon about the state written by someone who hates it. Or listening to a deposition about Roy Moore. Even the guy in the trailer park who sells stolen porn website passwords and secret videos he took in the showers at a nearby campsite is creeped out by this father-daughter relationship.
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Fortunately for 21-year-old Samantha Kershner, at least she avoided jail time for her incestuous marriage to her dad, Travis Fieldgrove. Kershner was initially charged with incest but pleaded no contest and had her charge reduced to misdemeanor false reporting, which got her nine months of probation from Hall County Court.
So how did such an Appalachian arrangement come to pass? It’s simple, really. The Nebraska woman reportedly had a heated sibling rivalry with her half-sister, and because they are both insane, they ended up having a “jealous competition” over their dad’s penis. It’s a tale as old as time, really — insomuch that it’s probably the plot to an extremely uncomfortable ancient Greek tragedy or an Egyptian deity origin story.
Sibling war.
Nebraska woman avoids jail for marrying dad after competing with half-sister to see who could have sex with him first.
Travis Fieldgrove said he doesn't think he's Samantha Kershner's father, but DNA testing indicates a 99.999% chance he is. https://t.co/AZP7jJXhXp
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 25, 2019
Obviously Kershner won the competition (hard pass on finding out whatever the silver medal for that race was) and started doing her dad in September of 2018. Because Kershner and Fieldgrove were apparently two of the only three people within of a 200-mile radius of themselves, the pair quickly fell in love and got hitched at the Adams County Courthouse in Hastings, Nebraska.
And she was still married to her dad, who didn’t actually believe he was Kershner’s father, despite her mother saying he was. A DNA test very much backed up Kershner’s mother’s claim, saying there is a 99.999% chance Fieldgrove is Kershner’s dad. Despite that mountain of cockblocking evidence, Fieldgrove was still 100% having sex with and married to his daughter. For his part, Fieldgrove doesn’t believe he’s Kershner’s dad despite overwhelming scientific and exculpatory evidence because she has a different last name than him. And that sounds about right for this whole situation.
Fieldgrove himself faced a whole litany of charges stemming from his gross life. He was ordered not to contact his daughter-wife, and was sentenced to serve one year of supervised release (which was reduced from an initial sentence of two years behind bars). He was also wanted on incest charges and making false statements under oath in Adams County, where the pair got married.
Now feel free to drink until everything you’ve just learned is erased from your brain or causes a brain injury to make you forget.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on June 25, 2019.
