9.79.100 of the 1974 Revised Code of Washington Īn effect of the repeal was that bestiality became legal in the state of Washington. In Washington state, a law was repealed on July 1, 1976, that had said:Įvery person who shall carnally know in any manner any animal or bird, or who shall carnally know any male or female person by the anus or with the mouth or tongue or who shall voluntarily submit to such knowledge or who shall attempt sexual intercourse with a dead body, shall be guilty of sodomy. states were repealed, largely since they had criminalized some consensual sex acts between adults that were no longer considered appropriate to forbid (e.g., criminalizing all oral and anal sex). In the 1970s, many statutes that had criminalized certain sex acts in various U.S. 6.4 Section 16.52.205 of the Revised Code of Washington.6.3 James Michael Tait and later events of 2009–2010.5 Criminal charges, guilty plea, and sentencing.Under current Washington law, bestiality is now a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Pinyan's death rapidly prompted the enactment of a bill by the Washington State Legislature that prohibits both sex with animals and the videotaping of such an act. It was informally referred to as the "Enumclaw horse sex case". The story was reported in The Seattle Times and was one of that paper's most read stories of 2005. After engaging in this activity on multiple occasions over an unknown span of time, Pinyan received fatal internal injuries in one such incident. Pinyan and Tait filmed and distributed zoophilic pornography of Pinyan receiving anal sex from a stallion under the alias " Mr.
The Enumclaw horse sex case was a series of incidents in 2005 involving Kenneth Pinyan, an engineer who worked for Boeing and resided in Gig Harbor, Washington James Michael Tait, a truck driver and other unidentified men. Hands), James Michael Tait, an unidentified male, and a stallion Unincorporated King County, Washington, United States (near Enumclaw)Īcute peritonitis caused by traumatic perforation of the colon