Inspired by the rape and murder of a pregnant goat named Meg, Florida lawmakers are poised to make bestiality a first-class felony. State Sen. Nan Rich says she was shocked to learn that if Meg hadn’t died during the assault, the man who attacked her would have been charged only with animal cruelty. The new bill calls for a maximum penalty of 30 years in jail for anyone committing, or facilitating, sexual contact with animals. “The fact that this happens is unconscionable,” said Rich, “and it should be illegal.”
An inmate who injured himself breaking out of a Colorado jail is suing on the grounds that guards should have done more to stop him escaping. Scott Gomez Jr. claims he was badly injured when he fell 40 feet while attempting to scale down the outside wall of the Pueblo County jail. Prison authorities, Gomez complains, “did next to nothing to ensure that the jail was secure and that the plaintiff could not escape.”
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