Every day, when we turn the headlines, we come across horrific cases of rapes occurring in every corner. As distressing such incidents are, some horrific events of men violating animals for sexual pleasure are also coming into the forefront. Such cases in psychological parlance are known as Beastiality. At a farm in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, sickening evidence revealed three men having sex with horses, cows, goats and dogs over 1,000 times. All of them face more than 1,400 charges each putting an end to what is thought to be five consecutive years of abuse to the animals. Psychiatrist Explains Zoophilia, Beastiality And Why Human Beings Prey Upon Animals For Sex. 

Identified as Terry Wallace (41), Matt Brubaker (32) and Marc Measnikoff (34) were detained by the state police who served a search warrant at the rural home. According to Centre Daily Times, a teenage boy alerted the officials to the abuse which involved 12 animals, out of which at least nine were female horses. Reportedly, the teen had to hold the animals during sex sessions. Along with the charges of cruelty to animals, the men are also imprisoned with endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of a minor.

State Police officials seized recording equipment, cameras and a large volume of homemade videos. The District Attorney Bill Shaw informed that the charges so far are part of an ongoing investigation into the animal abuse. Shaw further said that the juvenile male was placed in protective custody to determine the amount of mental or physical abuse he may have been exposed. He was quoted as saying, “Right now, we don’t believe the juvenile was sexually victimized.”

All three men are in jail in lieu of 100,000 dollars (over Rs. 69 lakhs) bond, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, August 22. Police described the statistics of the alleged abuse as ‘staggering’, and they even recovered many semi-automatic weapons at the home.

Human beings indulging in sexual practices with animals are not entirely uncommon. There are videos on the internet of men sexually assaulting animals. It was only last month when eight men appeared in the news for raping a pregnant goat in Haryana’s Mewat district, India. The medical reports stated that the goat who was 50-weeks pregnant died of a brain haemorrhage.

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