Enumclaw horse sex case
  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 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.
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 | change source]- ↑ 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 | change source]- Sullivan, Jennifer (October 19, 2005). "Trespassing charged in horse-sex case". The Seattle Times.
- Boeing In Memoriam, September 2005