The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that three men who dug up a dead body to have sex with it could be charged with sexual assault:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated criminal charges against three men who dug up a corpse to have sex with it.

The men went to a southwestern Wisconsin cemetery in 2006 to remove the body of a young woman recently killed in a motorcycle crash.

One of them saw an obituary photo of her and asked the others to help dig up the body so he could have sex with it. They used shovels to reach her grave but eventually abandoned their plan and were caught by authorities.

Lower courts had dismissed attempted third-degree sexual assault charges against the men, saying state law does not criminalize necrophilia.

But the Supreme Court says people can be charged with sexual assault when the victims are dead.

For those of you keeping track, it's now illegal to assault a lifeless body that's already been buried, but it's still legal to kill a live one in the womb.