‘Sex farm’ trio face more than 1,000 bestiality charges
Pennsylvania men allegedly had sex with dogs, horses, a cow and a goat
Three men are facing more than 1,000 charges involving sexual intercourse with animals after a raid on a farm in rural Pennsylvania.
Terry Wallace, 41, Matthew Brubaker, 32, and Marc Measnikoff, 34, have each been charged with 1,460 crimes, more than 1,000 relating to sex acts performed with farm animals.
The trio are thought to have used the “makeshift farm” to film homemade videos portraying bestiality with dogs, horses, a cow and a goat, USA Today reports. Prosecutors say that officers found cameras and a large quantity of footage during the raid on Saturday.
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A 16-year-old boy living on the property led police to a pen which he said was specially designed to stage sex acts with animals. It is not thought that the teen was involved in the abuse.
He told officers that Wallace, Brubaker and Measnikoff “had been having sexual intercourse with animals on a daily basis for years”, local news station, WJAC-TV, reports.
Under interrogation, Brubaker and Wallace admitted to committing lewd acts on horses, dogs, a cow and a goat, while Measnikoff admitted to everything except having sexual intercourse with a dog.
As well as the bestiality charges, the three also face counts of animal cruelty and corruption of a minor.
Clearfield County district attorney Bill Shaw told WJAC-TV: “I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and this is probably the worse situation of this type of case that I’ve come across.”
The animals have been removed from the property to the care of a rescue shelter, where employees are in the process of finding them new homes.
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