Enumclaw horse sex case
The Enumclaw horse sex case was an event that happened in 2005. It involved many people from Washington State. Kenneth D. Pinyan[2][3] was an engineer who worked for Boeing and lived in Gig Harbor, Washington. James Michael Tait was a truck driver. It also involved Douglas Spink and other people who are not known. Pinyan and Tait made zoophilic pornography of Pinyan getting anal sex from a male horse. Pinyan had the alias "Mr. Hands".[4][5] During one incident, Pinyan got an injury. He soon died from this injury.
  Location of Enumclaw, Washington State | |
| Date | July 2, 2005 |
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| Location | Unincorporated area in King County, Washington, United States (near Enumclaw) |
| Type | Bestiality |
| Cause | Cause of death: Peritonitis because of a hole in the colon |
| Participants |
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| Outcome | Laws passed making sexual intercourse with animals and human/animal pornography illegal |
| Deaths | 1 (Pinyan) |
| Convicted | James Michael Tait |
| Verdict | Tait: Pleaded guilty |
| Convictions | Tait: First-degree criminal trespass |
| Sentence | Tait: One-year suspended sentence |
The story was described in The Seattle Times. It was one of their most read stories in 2005.[6][7] Pinyan's death helped pass a bill in the Washington State Legislature that made sex with animals illegal. Today, bestiality is now a Class C felony in Washington.[8]
Bestiality was legal in Washington state at the time. Tait only went to jail for trespassing. He was given a one-year suspended sentence.
References
change- ↑ Sokol, Zach (July 16, 2015). "The Strange, Sad Story of the Man Named Mr. Hands Who Died from Having Sex with a Horse". Vice. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- ↑ Mudede, Charles (February 23, 2006). "The Animal In You". The Stranger. Archived from the original on April 11, 2006. Retrieved April 30, 2006.
- ↑ "Kenneth D Pinyan, Washington Death Index, 1965-2014". FamilySearch. King County, Washington. 2005-07-02.
- ↑ Lim, Dennis (April 1, 2007). "Zoo – Film". Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "Horse Riding Mr Hands, Washington". Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
- ↑ "Horse sex story was online hit". The Seattle Times. December 30, 2005. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ↑ Macdonald, Moira (July 3, 2006). "Infamous Enumclaw horse sex case to be made into movie". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ↑ State of Washington, Fifty-Ninth Legislature (March 8, 2006). "Animal cruelty in the first degree". RCW 16.52.205. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
Other websites
change- Sullivan, Jennifer (October 19, 2005). "Trespassing charged in horse-sex case". The Seattle Times.
- Boeing In Memoriam, September 2005