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   From: liberals-again@cnn.com   
      
   A British retiree who was caught on camera having sex with a St.   
   Bernard named Oscar, a black Labrador and an Alsatian has been   
   spared a prison sentence after claiming she did not realize that   
   bestiality was illegal.   
      
   Carol Bowditch, 64, of Lincolnshire in England was exposed in a   
   police investigation of an alleged “bestiality party” in which   
   dog owners watched their dogs have sex with women, before having   
   sex with the women themselves. The investigation, which centered   
   on an Internet forum specializing in bestiality, led the police   
   to Bowditch.   
      
   Police who searched her home found computer files filled with   
   vile images of Bowditch engaged in sexual congress with various   
   dogs.   
      
   Bowditch and 65 year old Daniel Galloway were charged with   
   various bestiality-related crimes.   
      
   Speaking at Lincoln Crown Court, prosecutor Victoria Rose said,   
   according to the Sun:   
      
   “When the DVD was analysed it was found to contain extreme   
   images. Those images portrayed persons committing penetrative   
   sexual acts with dogs.   
      
   “Also included were images of this defendant herself carrying   
   out sexual activity.   
      
   “Included was an eight minute and 59 seconds video of Mrs   
   Bowditch engaging in vaginal and oral sex with a St Bernard dog   
   named Oscar.   
      
   “When the defendant was interviewed she admitted she had   
   penetrative sex with dogs.   
      
   “She accepted it had taken place over several years. She was   
   unaware it was illegal.   
      
   “She identified the dogs. She said she had penetrative vaginal   
   sex once with a Labrador and twice with an Alsatian.   
      
   “She recalled she had vaginal and oral sex with a St Bernard.”   
   Bowditch admitted to one charge of sex with an animal and also   
   admitted to possessing extreme pornographic images. Her attorney   
   argued, however, that she had no prior convictions and had   
   already suffered great public humiliation, having been   
   ostracized by friends and family.   
      
   As a result of these mitigating factors, Bowditch was not   
   sentenced to prison. Rather she sentenced to community service   
   with 12 months’ supervision, and a 16-week nighttime curfew.   
      
   In sentencing Bowditch, Judge Michael Heath told her: “What you   
   engaged in was first of all unlawful and secondly disgusting.   
      
   “I am told that you have received public humiliation as a result   
   of the publicity that this case has attracted. That does not   
   surprise me.”   
      
   https://heatst.com/uncategorized/woman-64-filmed-having-sex-with-   
   dogs-in-vile-bestiality-party-claims-she-didnt-know-it-was-   
   illegal/   
          
      
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