While other people were preparing tax returns and visiting the post office this month, an African American elderly man was being arrested for "inappropriate relations with a dog," according to WGCL-TV in Atlanta on April 15. The Orange County, South Carolina resident, Freddie James, age 85 according to this VINE report, was released on $1,000 bond after being taken into custody for trying to have sex with a neighbor's puppy.
The crime, which is sometimes referred to as "buggery" or "sodomy", was interrupted by a neighbor of the puppy's owner who called authorities after realizing what was allegedly happening. The case investigation is still ongoing.
In Georgia in October 2011, ABC News reported that an employee of some standing within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta was accused of bestiality as well as child molestation. Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey, 44, along with her boyfriend, Thomas Westerman, 42, turned themselves into authorities on Oct. 9 after learning warrants had been issued for their arrest in the case. She was later released on $20,000 bond and he was released on a $15,000 bond, according to ABC News. Ms. Lindsey was accused of performing sex acts with two family pets in addition to her and Westerman's alleged sexual improprieties with a child.
Beastiality, sex with animals, is one of the sexual acts that was condemned in Scripture in the Old Testament, a practice that was being performed in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, for example. According to Georgia Code 16-6-6, those who practice sex with animals and are convicted of the offense in this state shall be punished by imprisonment for at least a year, but not more than five. But more importantly, why would any sane person (man or woman) seek to connect in this way to an animal, especially an animal that is a family pet or a neighbor's puppy? Shouldn't a person found to have sex with an animal be given some sort of treatment in addition to jail time?
Two years ago in February, "One Million Moms" wanted Geico to pull its commercial showing a girl on a date with a pig, as they felt it had serious overtones of suggestive beastiality, according to the Huffington Post. And as recently as 2014, according to Watchdog.org, when Alabama was moving to put a law against bestiality practice on their books, there were still 13 states without any laws on their books to forbid sex with animals. Those states include: Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, W. Virginia, Wyoming, as well as the District of Columbia.
