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   From: recall.nambla.nancy@msnbc.com   
      
   An Aurora couple are facing four counts of animal cruelty after   
   police alleged they were having sex with their dog in a backyard   
   motor home that had been converted into a sex chamber.   
      
   Fredrick Blue Manzanares, 50, and his ex-girlfriend, Janette   
   Eileen Solano, 48, were arrested in March on warrants for four   
   counts of cruelty to animals – neglect/mistreatment, according   
   to their arrest affidavits on file in Arapahoe County District   
   Court. The animal cruelty charge is a misdemeanor.   
      
   Police launched their investigation into the sex acts after   
   Solano called the Aurora Police Department in March 2017 to   
   report a domestic violence incident. When an officer met Solano   
   at a gas station, she told him that she and Manzanares had only   
   argued and she was leaving him because he had been pressuring   
   her into having sex with their dog, a Siberian husky mix named   
   Bubba.   
      
   Solano told detectives that Manzanares introduced her to   
   bestiality after she discovered pictures on their shared laptop,   
   the affidavit said. She confronted him, and he told her she   
   needed to have an open mind.   
      
   “He then spent the next six months introducing her to bestiality   
   videos, bestiality forums, as well as providing her different   
   literature on bestiality,” the affidavit said.   
      
   Christopher Decker, the attorney representing Manzanares, was   
   unavailable for comment.   
      
   The couple would have sex with Bubba inside the motor home where   
   Manzanares allegedly built a customized bench with red padding   
   to facilitate sex acts with the dog, the affidavit said. He used   
   a dog hormone spray to arouse the dog and would take pictures   
   and videos during the sex acts. Police found videos of   
   Manzanares, Solano and the dog having sex.   
      
   But the couple also fought over the dog, the affidavit said. At   
   one point, Solano remarked to police that she was “somewhat   
   jealous” of Manzanares’ relationship with Bubba.   
      
   In Colorado, bestiality falls under animal cruelty laws after   
   the legislature added a provision to existing state laws in   
   2007. Prior to that, it was not illegal to have sex with animals.   
      
   Marc Bekoff, a University of Colorado Boulder professor emeritus   
   of ecology and evolutionary biology, said most people would be   
   surprised about the extent of bestiality and the people who   
   commit it.   
      
   Sex with animals remains a misdemeanor in the United States   
   because animals are universally seen as property under laws and   
   not sentient beings, said Bekoff, whose most recent book is   
   “Canine Confidential: Why dogs do what they do” and who has   
   written about bestiality for Psychology Today.   
      
   While those who practice it don’t believe they are harming the   
   animals, it is abuse, he said.   
      
   “They’re serious about their right to have consensual sex with a   
   non-human,” Bekoff said. “It’s animal abuse. It’s a no-brainer.”   
      
   Officials could not immediately provide details on Bubba’s   
   whereabouts.   
      
   https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/20/aurora-couple-animal-   
   cruelty-having-sex-with-dog/   
      
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