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   SAN LEANDRO, CA -- A San Leandro man faced charges Thursday   
   after he was caught sexually assaulting a neighbor's dog, San   
   Leandro deputies said.   
      
    Officials said Allan K. Lindsay-O'Neal, a registered sex   
   offender,   
   sexually assaulted a young mixed-breed dog.  Deputies said a   
   caretaker   
   at O'Neal's  home on Outrigger Drive saw the attack.   
      
   "(O'Neal) noticed he was being watched," said San Leandro   
    Deputy C. Kovacs. "He covered himself with a sheet, and   
   then the dog got away, and then she saw (O'Neal) masturbating   
   himself."   
      
   Kovacs said O'Neal was allegedly sodomizing the dog with a   
   spoon, and the dog was yelping in pain. Kovacs added that the   
   incident was not the first time O'Neal has been seen involved in   
   disturbing acts with the dog and other animals.   
      
   "According to the neighbors, he is always walking around with   
   animals,   
   kissing and licking them and everything -- cats, animals he   
   picks up   
   in the neighborhood," Kovacs said.   
      
   Neighbors told Kovacs that at least one cat emerged from O'Neal's   
   home to lie lifeless in the grass.   
      
   Kovacs  said she was not able to arrest O'Neal   
   for bestiality, only for animal cruelty and exposing himself. In   
   California, it is not illegal to have sex with animals, Kovacs   
   said.   
      
   Sex crimes prosecutor L. Belohlavek said bestiality was removed   
   from the statute years ago when it was deemed unconstitutional.   
      
   "Now, it's only a crime if the animal was injured, or if the sex   
   occurred before a child less than 16 years old -- its a second   
   degree   
   felony," Belohlavek said.   
      
   Belohlavek said that removing bestiality from the books might   
   have   
   been an oversight when laws were being rewritten.   
      
   Meanwhile, animal cruelty investigators said they've had several   
   recent complaints but couldn't make any arrests, so they are   
   working   
   with county officials to draft a countywide bestiality law.   
      
   Animal advocates hope if a countywide law is passed, they might   
   get   
   state legislators to do the same.   
      
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