Well, I didn't want to say anything until either the news finally hit the local papers (it hasn't yet) or the trial got underway (there is no trial date set yet). But fuck it, the cat's been out of the bag since the Lulz thread that got posted a month ago. And it's really out of the bag since the case is now the subject of a
massive furrydrama_2 post.
This case has been going on for a while now. Around this time last year, a friend of mine discovered an individual by the name of PJ "
Krypto1701" Bowers. He had suspicious postings in his FA journal about two dogs of his (a male and a female German Shepherd that were brother and sister) that died recently, referring to them as his "mates" and so forth. It was creepy, and it followed the dogfucker-gushing-over-dog-photos-on-FA pattern to a T. So we went digging.
We didn't have to dig very far. One Google search turned up an RL name, a photo, and most importantly, his BeastForum account. Poking through that revealed at least 30 pictures of him assaulting the very same dogs he was talking about on FA.
It also revealed that the female dog was put down because she suffered from terminal pyometra (which she got because she was unfixed and got a vaginal infection - no points are awarded for figuring out how that happened). The male was put down shortly afterward, possibly due to prostate issues.
We then decided that we were going to take the lessons learned in
the Javachickn incident to heart. We only told a select few people, and we kept all mention of the case off of public forums. (Amazingly, nobody else noticed Krypto's antics until the first Lulz thread dropped a month or two ago.)
Shortly after the initial discovery, we sent all of the information we had on him to the
Richland County Humane Society. They then got in touch with the Sheriff's department and together they began monitoring Krypto's activities. The monitoring ramped up after he started volunteering at another nearby animal shelter (the Richland County Dog Warden). Roughly two weeks after he adopted an animal from the facility (a medium-size dog by the name of Aurora), he was arrested - the police used him posting on FA about the new dog as a means of tying his online identity to his real identity.
The dog was seized during the arrest. She was examined by a veterinarian, and evidence of sexual abuse was found.
Bowers had this dog for
two weeks. I guess nobody thought that he'd start abusing a dog that he only had for a week or so. That was news to me when I first read
the FD_2 post earlier today and I am kind of incredibly fucking disgusted. As is everyone else who was involved.
All things considered, it's kind of a miracle that things got this far. It's ironic, really: Someone molests a dog in a part of the country where people are so nutty about animal rights they want to eliminate the word "pet" and walks. But someone buggers a dog over in a part of Middle Goddamn America where there are no explicit anti-bestiality laws and he gets the book thrown at him.
