https://zoophilia.wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=84.9.39.232Zoophilia Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-07T16:55:33ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.0https://zoophilia.wiki/index.php?title=Sudanese_goat_marriage_incident&diff=8919Sudanese goat marriage incident2007-06-06T23:26:53Z<p>84.9.39.232: the man chose to have sex with a goat. This is bestiality: criminal behaviour. It's not like we are naming an innocent child. This is a man who had sex with a goat, and whose name is all over the web.</p>
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'''Rose''' was a [[goat]] from the Hai Malakal suburb of [[Juba]], the capital of the [[Sudan|Sudanese]] region of [[South Sudan]], who became an internet phenomenon when Charles Tombe, a local man, was caught by the goat's owner, a Mr. Alifi, [[Bestiality|having sex]] with the goat. Alifi took Tombe to the village elders, who determined that Tombe should 'marry' the goat and pay a 15,000-dinar [[dowry]] (approximately US$50).<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm Sudanese man forced to marry goat], BBC News, 24 February 2006</ref><br />
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The goat apparently acquired the name "Rose" after her rise to international fame.<br />
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The story, first published on [[24 February]] [[2006]] on the BBC website, attracted massive attention and was republished on numerous newspapers, blogs and other websites [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/just_kidding.html]. Even a year after publication, the story was consistently among the BBC's 10 most emailed articles, with many visitors to the BBC news site finding the tale amusing and passing it onto friends. The story received over 100,000 hits on five successive days long after its original publication, and was read by millions of people. The BBC, astonished at this popularity, wondered if there was a campaign to keep the tale at the top of its rankings; however, an investigation by its senior software engineer, Gareth Owen, determined that the demand was genuine [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2063975,00.html]. <br />
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==Death==<br />
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On [[May 3]] [[2007]] it was reported that the goat had died, having choked on a plastic bag.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6619983.stm Sudan's famous goat 'wife' dies], BBC News, 3 May 2007</ref> The BBC honoured the animal with a mock obituary <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6623895.stm R.I.P Sudan's married goat], BBC News, 4 May 2007</ref>. The death was also reported in many other news outlets, including [[The Times]]<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1744570.ece Rose the goat ‘wife’ chokes to death on a plastic bag], Times Online, 4 May 2007</ref>, the [[Daily Mail]]<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=452655&in_page_id=1770 Man widowed after his goat 'wife' chokes to death], Daily Mail, 4 May 2007</ref>, and [[Fox News]].<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269918,00.html 'Goat Man' of Sudan Becomes a 'Widower'], Fox News, 3 May 2007</ref><br />
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[[Category: 2007 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Human-animal relationships]]<br />
[[Category:Zoosexuality]]<br />
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