An owner and breeder of world-class miniature horses is
hoping video surveillance footage will help identify the person
suspected of sexually assaulting several of her horses and killing her
watchdog.
The sexual assaults have been ongoing since May 2012, according to Abby Conder, of Marion County, Florida.
"Since
May, we have had someone come into our barn on several occasions in the
middle of the night and take our miniature show horses and sexually
attack them," Conder told The Huffington Post.
On Sunday, Conder
got her first glimpse of the apparent perpetrator when she reviewed
video footage from inside her barn recorded earlier that morning.
"Someone's
got to know this man," Conder said. "He's been in this area at least
eight months now. These are babies I have raised and it's affected them
psychologically. It's hard to get in a stall with them and I can't get
near their rear ends to put a harness on them."
Conder said she
has filed seven reports with the Marion County Sheriff's Office and the
agency has offered
little assistance in catching the person responsible.
"The police come out, take a report and go away. They don't help us,"
Conder said.
When a horse was sexually assaulted two weeks ago, she said police told her to put a camera up in the barn.
"The
officer said we had to get this person on film. He said, 'If you get
them on film, it will help us identify him.' So we bought a night-vision
camera and put it in barn. I checked it every day and nothing. Then, on
Sunday morning, there he was in the barn."
Conder, who is in her
50s, said she was excited to finally have the image, but dismayed after
she met with a deputy with the sheriff's office.
"I called the
police and said I had him on film," she said. "They came out, did a
little report and I offered them the film. They said, 'No, we can't use
that for anything.' They said what I would need to do is find out when
he is in the barn, catch him and call them."
Conder's 150-pound
shepherd guard dog also was found dead in the barn. "I put him in the
barn and the next morning his head was smashed in," she recounted. "We
called police, and they came and took pictures."
Contacted by
HuffPost, the Marion County Sheriff's Office did not respond to
questions about the case, but said the office is working on it. "MCSO is
actively investigating Ms. Conder’s case," Jenifer Fisher Lowe, a
community relations specialist for the sheriff's office said in an
email.
"The most recent case was just this past Sunday. Prior to
that, the last report was in August," Lowe's email said. "Deputies are
using several resources to investigate who is doing this and make an
arrest. They have been at Ms. Conder’s home to follow-up as recently as
today."
Conder said she and her husband were alerted to the
sexual assaults when they discovered one of their horses tied to a
fence. At first, they thought some local teens had played a prank. "I
looked around her tail and it looked like someone had set a grenade off
on her. It was horrible," Conder said. "We called the vet and he said
the person who did it had torn her cervix with something, possibly a
baseball bat ..."
The vet also collected semen samples from the horse, she said.
Conder
has not been able to get help from local animal activist groups. "We
have tried and no one will help," she said. "Bestiality is such a [taboo
subject] that when people hear about it, they don't want to talk about
it."
An owner and breeder of world-class miniature horses is
hoping video surveillance footage will help identify the person
suspected of sexually assaulting several of her horses and killing her
watchdog.
The sexual assaults have been ongoing since May 2012, according to Abby Conder, of Marion County, Florida.
"Since
May, we have had someone come into our barn on several occasions in the
middle of the night and take our miniature show horses and sexually
attack them," Conder told The Huffington Post.
On Sunday, Conder
got her first glimpse of the apparent perpetrator when she reviewed
video footage from inside her barn recorded earlier that morning.
"Someone's
got to know this man," Conder said. "He's been in this area at least
eight months now. These are babies I have raised and it's affected them
psychologically. It's hard to get in a stall with them and I can't get
near their rear ends to put a harness on them."
Conder said she
has filed seven reports with the Marion County Sheriff's Office and the
agency has offered little assistance in catching the person responsible.
"The police come out, take a report and go away. They don't help us,"
Conder said.
When a horse was sexually assaulted two weeks ago, she said police told her to put a camera up in the barn.
"The
officer said we had to get this person on film. He said, 'If you get
them on film, it will help us identify him.' So we bought a night-vision
camera and put it in barn. I checked it every day and nothing. Then, on
Sunday morning, there he was in the barn."
Conder, who is in her
50s, said she was excited to finally have the image, but dismayed after
she met with a deputy with the sheriff's office.
"I called the
police and said I had him on film," she said. "They came out, did a
little report and I offered them the film. They said, 'No, we can't use
that for anything.' They said what I would need to do is find out when
he is in the barn, catch him and call them."
Conder's 150-pound
shepherd guard dog also was found dead in the barn. "I put him in the
barn and the next morning his head was smashed in," she recounted. "We
called police, and they came and took pictures."
Contacted by
HuffPost, the Marion County Sheriff's Office did not respond to
questions about the case, but said the office is working on it. "MCSO is
actively investigating Ms. Conder’s case," Jenifer Fisher Lowe, a
community relations specialist for the sheriff's office said in an
email.
"The most recent case was just this past Sunday. Prior to
that, the last report was in August," Lowe's email said. "Deputies are
using several resources to investigate who is doing this and make an
arrest. They have been at Ms. Conder’s home to follow-up as recently as
today."
Conder said she and her husband were alerted to the
sexual assaults when they discovered one of their horses tied to a
fence. At first, they thought some local teens had played a prank. "I
looked around her tail and it looked like someone had set a grenade off
on her. It was horrible," Conder said. "We called the vet and he said
the person who did it had torn her cervix with something, possibly a
baseball bat ..."
The vet also collected semen samples from the horse, she said.
Conder
has not been able to get help from local animal activist groups. "We
have tried and no one will help," she said. "Bestiality is such a [taboo
subject] that when people hear about it, they don't want to talk about
it."
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It's a common practice in Colombia believe it or not for boys and men to have sex with donkeys. This guy looks like he could be Colombian.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, donkeys the world over have been a popular sexual outlet of young men since ancient times. The pussy is "hot" as in is warmer than human body temperature. The best of all, donkeys / horses have vaginal muscles that are intended to make themselves as tight as possible as they are penetrated. --Fond Memories of "Clarabelle"
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