Bill Makes It Felony To Have Sex With Animals

A state Assembly Republican wants to make it a felony for a person to have sexual contact with animals. De Pere Representative Andre Jacque is responding to the case of Sterling Rachwal of Green Bay, who’s charged with five misdemeanor counts in Manitowoc and Brown counties of mistreating animals, disorderly conduct, and obstructing investigators. He’s been charged multiple times with molesting horses since the 1980s, and he has spent 18 years in a mental institution for an animal assault. Jacque says Rochwal is not the only such offender — and he’s been told that people have slept in barns with shotguns when they know that somebody is like that is “on the loose.” Twenty-three other states make sexual contact with animals a felony.