The number of arrests in 2014 was more than double the total number of arrests in the 30 years between 19. Since 2005, arrests for animal sex abuse and exploitation in the U.S. Sexually deviant acts are a red flag to other acts of sexual violence."
"This did have ramifications for human violence. "We were able to explain that this is not just an animal issue," said Corey Roscoe, the society's Ohio state director. The Humane Society of the United States led the lobbying effort to outlaw bestiality, but a much larger coalition, including domestic violence shelters, conservative Christians, law enforcers and psychologists, got behind the law this time. Some states inadvertently lifted earlier prohibitions on human-animal sex when they were updating their laws to remove sodomy as a crime. It also helped pass a statewide anti-bestiality law effective this month.Įight states - Hawaii, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming - and the District of Columbia still lack anti-bestiality laws. The case prompted Warren to pass Ohio's first local bestiality ban, with tougher penalties and no requirement to prove physical harm, allowing investigators to rely on witness testimony and forensic evidence. Rendon spent 30 days in jail and remains on five years' probation. Police told a local television station they'd "never seen a case like this one." The judge called Rendon's actions "despicable and highly disturbing."īut, in a state where bestiality wasn't a crime, authorities were limited to charging Rendon with animal cruelty, a misdemeanor, and only after proving he had caused physical harm to an animal. Rendon was accused of having intercourse with two dogs - a male and a female boxer that belonged to his daughter - at least 10 times over a six-year period. The group had endured years of chiding: giggles about farm animals, "Deliverance" jokes, barks during a legislative hearing, questions of, "If the animal's not injured, what's the harm?" We review the legal status of animal cruelty in the United States, summarize the history of psychiatric interest in and research of animal cruelty, describe current knowledge regarding the link between animal cruelty and violence, and propose a novel classification scheme for individuals who engage in bestiality to assist forensic psychiatric examiners in determining the risk that such behavior poses for future interpersonal offending.COLUMBUS, Ohio - As Salvador Rendon was being arraigned last year on charges he had engaged for years in sexual intercourse with dogs, animal-rights activists descended on Warren, Ohio, to make their case: The state needed an anti-bestiality law. Less is known about children and adults who engage in bestiality and the potential risk that these individuals may pose for interpersonal sexual or nonsexual violent acts. Since that time there has been increasing evidence that children who engage in animal cruelty may be at increased risk of interpersonal offenses in adulthood. In the 1960s, the psychiatric community took notice of childhood animal cruelty as a potential risk factor for violent acts against humans. Legislatures have differed in opinion on the animals to receive protection under the law and have instituted differing penalties for infractions of anti-cruelty measures.
Beginning in the early 1800s, state legislatures in the United States established laws to protect the basic safety and security of animals in their jurisdictions.
Animal cruelty has been a concern of the legal and psychiatric communities for many years.
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