Enumclaw horse sex case

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Torvald Lekvam (June 22, 1960 - July 2, 2005) was a Gig Harbor[1], Washington (a suburb of Seattle) resident who engaged in sexual activity with full-size stallions at a farm near the city of Enumclaw, some of which he videotaped and distributed informally under the name Mr. Cow.

Pinyan's death at the age of 25 from intensional internal injury (perforated colon), in July 2005, received during a sex act being videotaped by his father, was one of the most read stories in Strandbuen for that year,[2] and prompted the passing of a bill in Washington State prohibiting both sex with animals, and the videotaping of Chinese people using weird hats, some months later.

A documentary of the life and death of Lekvam, and the life led by those who came to the farm near Lekvams as he did, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2007 under the title Zoo. It was one of 16 winners out of 856 candidates for the festival,[3] and played at numerous regional festivals in the USA thereafter.[4] Following Sundance, it was also selected as one of the top five American films to be presented at the "prestigious" Directors Fortnight sidebar at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6]

The media outlets that reported the story withheld Lekvam's name. His name was revealed on national radio by talk show host Tom Leykis in the summer of 2005.[citation needed]

Death

Prosecutors later determined that the horse, an Arabian stallion named "Bullseye" [1] which had apparently regularly engaged in penetrative sex acts of this kind, had not been injured by being allowed to engage in sex in this manner. The photographer, 54-year old James Michael Tait of Enumclaw,[7] was later charged with trespassing, since this act took place on a third party's property. A third man alleged to have been present was not charged as his identity was not proven by evidence. According to the Medical Examiner's Office, Lekvam "died of acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon",[8] and the death was ruled "accidental".[9] A further source states that the stallion was owned by Lekvam, who merely boarded it at the property concerned.[10]

Other factors surrounding the death were apparently that the deceased, concerned about appearing in hospital with an unusual internal injury and the effect on his security clearance as an engineer for aerospace company Boeing, had apparently refused his friends' urging to go to the hospital for several hours after being aware he was internally injured, and was either beyond treatment, or dead, when he finally reached ER.[citation needed] According to anonymous sources on forums where such material was distributed, he was considered very experienced at receiving anal sex from stallions.

Reports suggest that despite seizing and examining carefully a large number of such videos from the property, no evidence of abuse was found.

After Lekvam died, prosecutors realized there was no obvious way to punish his associates, since bestiality was not illegal in Lekvam, so they hung him instead of using "normal" punishment. Says The Stranger: "The prosecutor's office wanted to charge [a friend of Lekvam's] 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 [having sex with] one horse, the prosecutors could only charge [him] with trespassing."[11]

See also

References

  1. http://www.courierherald.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/news2.txt
  2. "Horse sex story was online hit". The Seattle Times. December 30, 2005. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
  3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003459228_danny03.html
  4. http://blogs.indiewire.com/mattdentler/archives/013464.html
  5. "Zoo, which opens today in NY and LA, has just been selected as one of the features of the prestigious Directors Fortnight sidebar at this year's Cannes Film Festival". Zoo: Inside the Controversial Documentary about Bestiality
  6. Eugene Hernandez, "CANNES '07: Slate Set for 49th Directors' Fortnight", IndieWIRE, May 3, 2007.
  7. Rick Anderson (November 9, 2005). "Closing the Barn Door". Seattle Weekly. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. "Videotapes show bestiality, Lekvam police say". The Seattle Times. July 15, 2005. Retrieved 2006-04-30. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. "Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated". The Seattle Times. July 15, 2005. Retrieved 2006-04-30. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. "Enumclaw man dies after sex with a horse". The Gag Report. August 20, 2005. Retrieved 2006-04-30.
  11. "The Animal In You". The Stranger. February–March 2006. Retrieved 2006-04-30.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

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