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Case ID: 5625
Classification: Bestiality
Animal: sheep
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Sheep sexually assaulted
Battle Creek, MI (US)

Incident Date: Wednesday, Jan 26, 2005
County: Calhoun

Charges: Felony CTA
Disposition: Convicted

Defendant/Suspect: Jeffrey Scott Haynes

Case Updates: 2 update(s) available

A Battle Creek man, charged with having sex with a sheep, has waived his preliminary examination in Calhoun County District Court. Jeffrey S. Haynes, 42, is charged with sodomy with a Bedford Township animal on Jan. 26.

On Sept 26, Haynes waived his hearing before District Judge Samuel Durham and the case was bound over to Calhoun County Circuit Court for trial.

Battle Creek police said Haynes was found on the property by the owner, who then determined that one of the sheep had been injured. A DNA sample from the animal was sent to the Michigan State Police lab and police said it matched one taken from Haynes. He was arrested June 13.

Haynes faces up to 15 years in prison on the sodomy charge but because he has three prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and "uttering and publishing"*, he also is charged as a fourth offender and, if convicted, could be sentenced up to life in prison.

Defense Attorney John Sullivan and Assistant Prosecutor Tamara Towns said plea negotiations are under way that might drop the minimum sentence to 30 months in prison.

Prosecutor John Hallacy said charges of sodomy with animals are rare. He could only remember two or three cases in 17 years.

"We don't see charges of sexual abuse of animals that often," he said, "but it sometimes arises during an investigation of assaultive crimes and sexual assault that we have heard information that indicates there may have been physical or sexual abuse of animals. But charging someone is fairly rare."

* According to Michigan state law, "Any person who utters and publishes as true any false, forged, altered or counterfeit record, deed, instrument or other writing specified, knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeit, with intent to injure or defraud is guilty of uttering and publishing"


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A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender.

Jeffrey S. Haynes said the state registry is intended to keep track of people who have committed crimes against humans.

But Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Conrad Sindt told Haynes at his sentencing hearing that once he is released from prison, he must register with the Michigan State Police Public Sex Offender Registry.

Haynes, 42, of Battle Creek, was sentenced Monday to 2-1/2 years to 20 years in prison. He entered the plea in January. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.

Tamara Towns, an assistant prosecutor for the county, argued that Haynes should be ordered to register as a sex offender because once out of prison, he could prey on children or vulnerable adults.

Haynes said he is not a violent person and would not assault children.

"The prosecutor is being real hard on me for what I did," he said. "But I should not be treated as a child molester."

Police said Haynes had sex with a sheep at a Bedford Township farm on Jan. 26, 2005. The animal's owner caught him on the property and the sheep was found injured.

Haynes was arrested in June after a DNA sample taken from the animal matched Haynes' genetic material.

Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing, and was on parole for burglary at the time of the sex crime.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times - Feb 17, 2006
Update posted on Feb 22, 2006 - 2:01AM 
A Battle Creek man charged with having sex with a sheep has been sentenced to prison.

Jeffrey S. Haynes, 42, was sentenced to 30 months to 20 years in prison for sodomy. Haynes pleaded no contest in January to the charge.

"This whole incident defies description, justification, or excuse, whatsoever," Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Conrad Sindt said during the sentencing hearing Monday.

Haynes was charged after police said he assaulted the sheep in Bedford Township on Jan. 26, 2005.

The owner of the animal caught Haynes on the property and found one of the sheep had been injured.

He was charged after police sent a DNA sample from the sheep to the Michigan State Police Crime Lab. He was arrested in June.

Haynes told Sindt, "I take full responsibility for what I did wrong. I am sorry for what I did. But I am not a child molester and would never touch a child."

Assistant Prosecutor Tamara Towns argued that while the crime was not against a person, Haynes should be ordered to register as a sex offender because it's possible that once out of prison he would prey on children or vulnerable adults.

"He is a predator," Towns said.

But Haynes said he is not a violent person and would not assault children.

"The prosecutor is being real hard on me for what I did," he said. "But I should not be treated as a child molester."

Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing and was on parole for burglary at the time of the alleged crime.

Sindt said once he is released from prison Haynes must register on the state's sex offenders list.

"This act is so representative of someone who is sexually perverted that I will order he register on the sex offender list," Sindt said.
Source: Battle Creek Enquirer - Feb 14, 2006
Update posted on Feb 14, 2006 - 2:48PM 

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