Deviates who abuse animals should be gelded.

It's South Carolina. Perhaps this guy should have taken the horse out on the Appalachian trail. Ask Mark Sanford how to get there. You go by way of South America.

The poor horse. I hope it was as good for her as it seems to be for this pervert. It may be considered buggery. But this guy needs to be put away.

sick fellow I guess he didn't like woman or men.And that poor woman I would of hated to watch that video.But we do have some freaks out there.

I'd be the first one to pull a guy off my horse who is trying to molest it but what I find so depraved about this country is our need to spread this guys face across the globe and humiliate him as much as possible in the process. Yes, he needs mental help but not incarceration. Beyond that, this is really not something the world needs to know about. Registering him as a sex offender? To keep our equine friends safe?

Try, if you can, to imagine you're in his situation. It's enough to drive you to suicide. Being caught is bad enough but having the entire world to know about it seems too much to me.

Get this man help. He's disturbed but he didn't hurt anyone. I imagine he'll be well received in prison.

I guess seeing this guy makes the rest of us feel so good about ourselves. We can say, "well, at least I'm not getting it on with a horse" and then we can feel superior to something and just go about our merry way feeling like we've got nothing within ourselves to reevaluate.

Think again. Just because you're not dating an animal doesn't mean you're not one and it certainly doesn't mean you're not still an a**hole.

my question: why does he get 3 years for raping a horse, but a beast who rapes children only gets 18 months? i guess it is more 'normal' to rape children?

r henry - his face and business needs to be put out there to make an example of him. I think everyone who is cruel to animals should be publicly humiliated because they are like children; innocent and defenseless. True, a horse is rather large and maybe it didn't hurt her at all, but it is an animal. Yes, for an equine friend. And for all of my animal friends, I would want any criminal to be publicly humiliated and punished. Why should I consider the feelings of a human being who doesn't care about the well being of an animal. When people speed, they don't hurt anyone, but are still berated when pulled over by an officer. Besides, I don't look at this man and think "I am better than him" but I DO think "Good God, to this poor animal?"

No Blaire, you think that a person should be humiliated so that you can derive a sick pleasure from seeing someone else who is worse off than you. That way you can go on feeling "normal" and "ok" when you are far from it. you enjoy being disgusted by this "sub" human.

I love animals. I have 3 dogs, a cat, 2 ducks and a goldfish and I certainly wouldn't accept a man trying to molest any of them. but public humiliation as a form of supposed retribution is only evidence that our entire culture is sick. Not just this man.

It's disgusting.

I'd lack to add that a person like this needs serious help. he is not going to hurt you if he is allowed to get that help but I can guarantee you that dehumanizing and humiliating him nationally on television, www and radio is certainly not going to help. It's only going to cause even more problems in someone who is very ill to begin with.

Naaay! No jail for Rodell. Sorry, bad joke, but I need to say:

r henry is right, modern America loves its witch hunts and persecutions supported by a quite sadistic general public that has become an extremely complicit component of the Prisons for Profit system. We are the only country who has a big profiteering prison system, where extremely rich corporations (the fastest growth industry the past 25 years) make a substantial profit off every prisoner incarcerated. We also jail 25% of ALL prisoners in the world. California jails more people than China (30 million vs. 1.3 BILLION). And China's suppose to be LESS free? What a joke. A very bad joke. And the mentally ill? We are the only nation anywhere, including the radical Muslim states we are suppose to hate for their "barbaric ways", who routinely jail our mentally ill. Why because there's a handsome profit in jails, not mental institutions. And the vindictive, blood thirsty public screams for more years and more severe punishment every day.

The savage, cruel general public and criminal high level profiteering are just two of many other present signs one sees in falling empires, much like the "bread and circuses" of the crumbling Roman Empire, where an overfed, overindulging general public watched sadistic, brutal shows in the arena (TV and the internet today) while their troops and police went everywhere they could to terrorize all they could and those in charge looted as fast as they could. Sadly, it's always the weakest who are brutalized first and foremost in any savage system and America's mentally ill are the easiest to pick on and the least able to defend themselves, so let's make mental illness a crime and jail for them all!

Actually, it'd probably be a relief for America to fall down a notch or two because otherwise falling empires try to rebuild themselves via fascist movements; Germany in the 1920's and 30's is the most recent example. And with the raging rise of Antisemitism in spades in the US, we may end becoming something far worse than a fallen Rome.

arnepaul! Amen!

Trenchant observations regarding our decadent "culture." All this contrived outrage is just a mechanism for condemners to feel morally superior. Yeah, the guy's messed up, but he needs compassion and help more than cage treatment. How a society treats its weakest is a good barometer, and here in the Incarceration Nation, atmospheric pressure is way down. Our empire will crumble just like all the rest, and appears to be well along in the process. "Law and order" fanatics are wrong if they think more severe punishments and "zero tolerance" or "three strikes" policies are constructive. The rot is from within, and trimming the branches won't get at the root. Liberty has become license, and what passes for individuality is mere selfishness. It's interesting but sad to see it all go down the toilet. I think it's already too late, but hopefully am mistaken.

This is very nasty and discusting. Yuck! Poor Horse.

poor guy only wanted some loving