Animal-cruelty charges dropped against cop

[snopes]

If animals could talk, a few cows in Burlington County might ask state legislators to hurry up and outlaw bestiality.

During a bizarre hearing there, a Superior Court judge dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a Moorestown police officer accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves in rural Southampton in 2006, claiming a grand jury couldn't infer whether the cows had been "tormented" or "puzzled" by the situation or even irritated that they'd been duped out of a meal.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ho...ounty_cop.html

[Moku]

I think the most disturbing part of that article is that the human alleged victims get lower billing than the bovines.

[ASL]

Oh George, not the livestock...

[DawnStorm]

Tube steak in a steak. I'm utterly disgusted.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Moku

I think the most disturbing part of that article is that the human alleged victims get lower billing than the bovines.

But the report was about the hearing, which was only about the animal-cruelty charges. The fact that he also faces human sexual abuse charges is part of the context that shows he has other, bigger problems to deal with.

Also, of course, there is the news business principle that 'dog bites man is not a story, but man bites dog is.' A hearing on a guy seeking oral sex from calves is really unusual, but (unfortunately) there are rape and sexual assault cases between humans every day.