Editing Enumclaw horse sex case (section)

==Investigation==
After Pinyan died, the authorities used his [[Wikipedia:driver's license|driver's license]] to find acquaintances and relatives. Earlier news reports stated that the authorities had used [[Wikipedia:Closed-circuit television|surveillance camera]] footage to track down Pinyan's companion. Using the contacts, the authorities found the farm where the incident occurred. The police tracked down the rural Enumclaw-area farm, which was known in [[zoophile]] chat rooms as a destination for people wanting to have sex with livestock, and seized 100 [[Wikipedia:VHS|VHS]] tapes and [[Wikipedia:DVD|DVD]]s, amounting to hundreds of hours of video of men engaging in bestiality. One of the videotapes featured Kenneth Pinyan shortly before he died on July 2.<ref name="seattle1"/><ref name="Closing the Barn Door" />

Prosecutors later determined that the horse had not been injured.<ref name="AndersonBarn1"/><ref>Foundas, Scott. "[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117932505.html?categoryId=2471&cs=1 Zoo]." ''[[Wikipedia:Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. Friday May 18, 2007. Retrieved on September 17, 2010.</ref>

{{quote|It was only after Pinyan died, when law enforcement looked for one way to punish his associates, that the legality of bestiality in Washington State became an issue [...] The prosecutor's office wanted to charge Tait with animal abuse, but the police found no evidence of abused animals on the many videotapes they collected from his home. As there was no law against humanely fucking a horse, the prosecutors could only charge Tait with trespassing.|[[Wikipedia:Charles Mudede|Charles Mudede]], [[Wikipedia:The Stranger (newspaper)|''The Stranger'']]<ref name="thestranger"/>}}

{{quote|The prosecutor's office says no animal cruelty charges were filed because there was no evidence of injury to the horses.|''[[Wikipedia:Associated Press|Associated Press]]'' in ''[[Wikipedia:The Seattle Times|The Seattle Times]]''<ref name="seattle3">{{cite news|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/charge-filed-in-connection-with-man-who-died-having-horse-sex/|accessdate=May 11, 2016|title=Charge filed in connection with man who died having horse sex|newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=October 18, 2005|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>}}