Sex acts with pets is OK with the Canadian Supreme Court

[Strangebrew]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...netration.html
This is fun.

The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that sex acts with a pet are legal as long as the animal is not penetrated or suffers any form of injury.
The case involved a man who had been convicted of sexually abusing two of his step daughters, who had also been convicted of bestiality after he attempted to make the dog engage in sexual activities with one of the young girls.
A lower court convicted the man of bestiality after it heard he smeared peanut butter on the girl, who was 15 at the time of the abuse, to entice the dog to lick it off.

The lower court ruled the man was guilty of bestiality because he had received sexual gratification from the act.
However, the man, known only as D.L.W. successfully challenged the bestiality decision in the appeals court.
According to The Canadian Lawyer and Law Times, The higher court decided that a strict interpretation of the law, which dates from the English 1861 Offences Against the Person act, required penetration for a bestiality conviction.

nimal rights charity Animal Justice then challenged this decision to the Supreme Court, who ruled that when the Canadian parliament updated the criminal law relating to sexual offences it did not change the historically understood meaning of bestiality.
The Supreme Court said Parliament could have updated the interpretation of what constituted bestiality if it wished and claimed it was not the role of the courts to introduce new criminal offences.
According to the ruling: 'Courts will only conclude that a new crime has been created if the words used to do so are certain and definitive. This approach not only reflects the appropriate respective roles of Parliament and the courts, but the fundamental requirement of the criminal law that people must know what constitutes punishable conduct and what does not, especially when their liberty is at stake.'


Camille Labchuck of Animal Justice urged the Canadian Parliament to change the law in order to protect children and animals.
Speaking after the hearing, she said: 'The Supreme Court’s decision is a wake up call that laws protecting animals are severely out of date. As of today, Canadian law gives animal abusers license to use animals for their own sexual gratification. This is completely unacceptable, contrary to societal expectations, and cannot be allowed to continue.
Peter Sankoff, who argued the case said: 'As an intervener in the case, Animal Justice drove home the importance of ensuring our laws protect animals from sexual abuse.
'This decision reflects the fact that the Supreme Court was forced to work with our outdated laws. Although Animal Justice hoped for a different decision, it is encouraging that both the majority and the dissent adopted aspects of our arguments, and recognized that protecting animals is a fundamental societal value.
'Canadians care deeply about protecting animals from this type of cruelty and sexual abuse. People who sexually abuse animals often sexually abuse children as well, as the accused did in this case. Parliament must step in immediately to fix our outdated laws and protect the vulnerable from sexual exploitation.'

[Sandraudiga]

This is incorrect, they don't think it is okay. They simply point out that the letter of the law as it currently stands doesn't consider that bestiality.

Misleading title is misleading, or deliberately incorrect.

[THE Bigzoman]

current year.

[s_bushido]

What sort of abuse are they worried about? An animal isn't exactly going to comprehend the ramifications of licking peanut butter off your dick...

[mykro9]

The problem would be that if they changed the law, it wouldn't matter. It would affect any acts AFTER the law went into effect, but not before. Otherwise, I could pass a law that riding a bike on Wednesdays is illegal, and arrest you for doing it last week. I could be wrong, but most laws are meant 'from this day forward'.

[Independent voter]

Image of Canadian cat.

[GennGreymane]

Hub... why

[Underverse]

Who cares. As long as they aren't hurting the animals, it doesn't really matter. This whole 'exploitation' thing is really going too far.

[Deleted]

male dogs do not need enticing for sexual activity especially if they havnt had the snip,but bestiality or beastiality which ever you wanna call it can be animal abuse but if the animal mounts you without any enticement then thats fine i guess thats whats canada court is saying

[Spectral]

I'm really not sure why I should care. I'd say eating animals is a bit more violation of their putative "rights", yet most of us are basically fine with that.

[Deleted]

I'm really not sure why I should care. I'd say eating animals is a bit more violation of their putative "rights", yet most of us are basically fine with that.

yes but not many countries eat dogs and cats maybe in the far east they might im not sure

[Spectral]

yes but not many countries eat dogs and cats maybe in the far east they might im not sure

That's a pretty arbitrary distinction. If the full separator is "people like dogs", this isn't a legal argument.

[sethman75]

Look at the kids in here trying to justify humans having sex with animals.

I think mum and dad let these kids watch too much my little pony instead of actually raising their kids.

God help the future generations

[derpkitteh]

as long as the animal isn't hurt, i don't see a problem with someone doing sex stuff with it.

[Koji2k11]

Image of Canadian cat.

i lol'ed no srly i did

[Deleted]

This is incorrect, they don't think it is okay. They simply point out that the letter of the law as it currently stands doesn't consider that bestiality.

Misleading title is misleading, or deliberately incorrect.

^this.

Also, if new or current laws were badly written or misinterpreted, you could end up prosecuting farmers, vets or anyone who works in animal husbandry for "bestiality".

[dragonvalor]

I wish MMOC considered sexual pictures of underage anime girls illegal

[Strangebrew]

I wish MMOC considered sexual pictures of underage anime girls illegal

Who said they are girls?

[dragonvalor]

Who said they are girls?

oh well that makes it ok

[Hemak]

lol. The least xenophobic country in the West everybody.
Very progressive 10/10.
Current year, etc. , etc.
I'm done Canada. You should get out while you can.