Missouri to ponder bestiality ban

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Full story at:

 

http://www.joplinglobe.com/000119/regional/story5.html

 

Highlights of the article.

My assistants Greg and Judy Myers, and myself were largely responsible for

bringing the awareness of this issue to the legislators with the help of a

variety of animal activists!

This shows what animal activism can do with persistance, persistance,

persistance!

Every MO state Senator has my FAQ file on animal sex-abuse now.

 

Please read the full text of the article, and send Mr Wolfe an email thanking

him for bringing this issue to the forefront in the Missouri Joplin Globe!

 

I will post contact information later.

 

Mike

ASAIRS Administrator, with Grey and Judith Myers, ASAIRS Assistants

http://members.aol.com/animalsav/

 

 

 

By James F. Wolfe

Globe Special Correspondent

 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.

 

Sex between humans and animals would become a crime under a bill that will be

introduced Thursday at the request of people who cited notoriety about a Carl

Junction man and Pixel, the pony he introduced as his wife.

Rep. Catherine Hanaway, R-Des Peres, said constituents opposed to animal

abuse pointed out that Missouri has no statute specifically prohibiting

bestiality.

Rep. Katherine Hollingsworth, D-Imperial, is a co-signer, and others are

expected to sign the bill.

Twenty-four states have specific bans. Missouri did until 1977. Hanawayís

bill provides for a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $5,000 fine or

both.

 

She said the Internet has chat rooms and Web sites devoted to practices ìthat

people never knew were going on.

Proponents of a law told Hanaway and other legislators that Missouri ìis now

internationally known as the Bestiality Stateíü because of a British

television show last fall that featured the late George Willard, whose

trailer home, which he shared with his pony, Pixel, was southwest of Carl

Junction.

 

 

Greg and Judith Myers of Arnold are animal welfare activists who are pushing

for a Missouri law. Greg Myers said cruelty laws are not enough because an

injury may not be apparent and because sex with animals cannot be consensual.

John Schnorr, 36, [zoophile] a computer science student at Missouri Southern

State College who lives near Carl Junction, said he was Willards companion

and caretaker for three years.

He said the British television producers ìstumbled across George on the

Internet. He said he also appeared on the show.

Schnorr said he opposes new legislation