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Alaska and Florida Consider Laws against Bestiality

By Corey Rayburnyung

Due to their legal status as property, animals are subject to physical and sometimes sexual abuse. While human-animal sex is almost universally condemned, it is not explicitly illegal in 15 states. Florida and Alaska, reacting to incidents of human-animal sex, are now looking to criminalize bestiality. From the Associated Press:It's a subject that can cause nervous snickering, a little uneasiness and even a few bad jokes.But many in the southeast Alaska community of Klawock, population 800, weren't laughing last April after a 26-year-old registered sex offender was accused of molesting a local family's pet dog.The man was spotted by a local woman coaxing the Labrador retriever into the woods near a ball field. There he allegedly tied it to a tree, taped its muzzle shut with duct tape and had sex with it, witnesses told police at the time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).