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Man Caught Having Sex With A Dead Deer

by | 22nd, February 2008

redneck_deer.jpgUS COURT upholds man’s conviction for having sex with dead deer. As noted: “The Associated Press provides this report on a ruling that the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin issued yesterday”:

A state appeals court has upheld a Superior’s man conviction for having sex with a dead deer.

The 3rd District Court of Appeals rejected Bryan Hathaway’s argument that the charge should be dismissed because the law against committing an act of sexual gratification with animals does not apply if they are dead.

“He rather convincingly contends that animal means a living creature,” Judge Gregory Peterson wrote. “However, Peterson pled no contest to the charge. A plea of guilty or no contest waives all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses.”

Hathaway, 21, pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor a year ago and was sentenced to probation that required him to be evaluated as a sex offender.

The case:

In January, Douglas County Circuit Court Judge Michael Lucci sentenced him to nine months in jail for probation violations that included using alcohol and marijuana and having unapproved contact with a minor child.

Hathaway told investigators that he saw a dead deer in a ditch near Superior in fall 2006 as he rode a bicycle by it. He then dragged it into the woods and had sex with it.

“When I was done, I was upset with myself,” Hathaway said in a statement to police. “I know having sex with animals is wrong. But I can’t help myself and I need help.”

Anne Althouse comments:

The crime charged is §944.17(2)(c), which is “an act of sexual gratification involving his or her sex organ and the sex organ, mouth or anus of an animal.” This would exclude the “Portnoy’s Complaint” sort of behavior — masturbating with a slab of raw liver — but it also makes it rather clear that the concern is not for the animal’s welfare but about the perversion of the person engaging in the behavior of “gratifying” himself.]

When does the cease cease to be an animal and become a dead object?



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