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Skriven 2005-10-19 20:06:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Morality
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I expect the ACLU to defend the rights of people to have sex with animals.  I
expect PETA to come out against them for creulty to animals.  I expect other
kooks from the left to weigh in on this.  Should turn into a circus quickly...
Should warrant a protest march by one or all...

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002569751_horsesex19m.html


Trespassing charged in horse-sex case

By Jennifer Sullivan

Seattle Times staff reporter

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex
with animals  and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse  was charged
with a misdemeanor yesterday.

Police began investigating James Tait, 54, and another man who lived at the
rural Southeast King County farm after the Seattle man died of injuries
suffered during intercourse with a horse in the summer, Enumclaw police said.

The criminal-trespassing charge stems from a July 2 bestiality session
involving Tait, the 45-year-old Seattle man and a horse in a neighbor's barn,
charging papers say. According to the King County Medical Examiner's Office,
the Seattle man died of acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon.

Attempts to contact Tait yesterday were unsuccessful.

King County prosecutors say it's the most-severe charge they could file;
Washington is one of more than a dozen states that does not outlaw bestiality.

"There is no evidence of injury to the animal to support animal-cruelty
charges," said Dan Satterberg, the county prosecutor's chief of staff. "This is
the only crime we can charge."

When interviewed by The Seattle Times July 15, the horse's owners said they had
known their neighbors for years. The couple, who asked to have their names
withheld to protect their privacy, said they were shocked when police showed
them a home video of the July 2 incident that investigators seized from their
neighbor's home. The couple identified their barn and their horse.

According to the King County Sheriff's Office, which also investigated, the
farm was known in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people who want to
have sex with livestock. Authorities didn't learn about the farm until July 2,
when a man drove to Enumclaw Community Hospital seeking medical assistance for
a companion. Medics wheeled the Seattle man into an examination room and
realized he was dead. When hospital workers looked for the man who had dropped
him off, he was gone, Enumclaw police said.

Using the dead man's driver's license to track down relatives and
acquaintances, investigators were led to the Enumclaw farm.

Because the other man who lived at the farm wasn't there the night the Seattle
man died, he wasn't charged with trespassing, Satterberg said. Tait will be
arraigned Oct. 27; he faces up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine if
convicted.




The Seattle man isn't being identified because his family asked that his name
not be released.

The man's brother said he understands that prosecutors can't file a felony
charge but remains disappointed that Tait wouldn't face more than a year behind
bars.

In the wake of the man's death, State Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, has said she
plans to draft legislation making bestiality illegal in Washington.

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