M Jenny Edwards

SME, Animal Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

Research, Laws, & Case Updates

WINTER QUARTER-2017

Increased attention is being paid to the incidence of animal sexual abuse throughout the world. Here are highlights of just some of the incidents reported:

Sexting, Exploitation, Pornography

Sweden has tried the first case of sexploitation involving teens coerced into performing sex acts with animals.

In Australia, a celebrity has been charged with sexual harrassment involving unwanted advances and animal pornography.

A New Zealand man was arrested and charged with a large collection of animal pornography.

A Welsh investigation into an illegal mariuana grow led to a collection of more than 3,000 images of child and animal porn.

Bestiality, Child Sexual Abuse

A German babysitter spotted a man having intercourse with a pony at the children's zoo

In the US, in two different Alabama cases, children and animals were sexually abused. A 26 year-old female was arrested for sodomizing a 2-year-old, which led to the arrest of a 27 year-old male charged with having sex with his German Shepherd. A different couple was arrested after it was discovered the 28 year-old man repeatedly sodomized a child and the 22 year-old stay-at-home mom filmed him having sex with their dog.

An Arizona couple were arrested for having sex with a friend's dog after they got the idea from reading about another couple who had done the same thing. In a weird twist, they told the judge they needed access to their service dog.

A Missouri veterinarian was arrested after surveillance videos caught him having sex with at least 300 dogs during his 17 years in practice.

Solicitation, Conspiracy to Commit

In the UK, two men used social media apps to broadcast live images of child torture and rape and arranged to meet to commit bestiality.

Laws, Adjudication

Canadians hope to strengthen their laws by introducing a law that expands the definition of bestiality - which is currently defined as anal penetration only.

A child offender was convicted in Massashusetts for causing serious internal injuries to a dog after shoving a soap dispenser into its vagina - an act of rape by penetration with an object. The decision was appealed, and the court ruled that "serious bodily injury" does not apply to animals and overturned the conviction.  

In Ohio, they are still fighting over a law passed in December 2016 that prohibited municipalities from setting a minimum wage, allowed cell phone companies to place equiment on public structures, and, of yes, made bestiality illegal,