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04-23-2013, 07:57 AM
Sex with dogs (http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2013/04/muskegon_mans_sex_with_dogs_br.html#incart_river_d efault)
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MUSKEGON, MI – A Muskegon County judge went above state sentencing guidelines to order Kurtis Peter Peterson to state prison for between one and 15 years for repeatedly having sex with dogs.
State guidelines would have meant a sentence to the Muskegon County Jail plus probation, with the jail sentence certain to end almost immediately because Peterson has already spent 321 days in jail.
A sentence to the Michigan Department of Corrections – even though Peterson will be eligible for his first parole consideration soon – makes it likelier he’ll be kept in a controlled setting, which 14th Circuit Judge Timothy G. Hicks considers essential.
“Community supervision would be a struggle at this time,” Hicks said. He said presentence investigators believe Peterson carries a high risk of reoffending if left unsupervised. “I fear for what he might do in the community,” the judge said.
Hicks said Peterson has “pretty low cognitive ability” and Peterson’s public defender, Belinda Barbier, said her client has serious mental health issues that need to be addressed with long-term counseling that he has not been receiving.
Throughout the sentencing, Peterson swayed continuously, shifting his weight from foot to foot as he did at his plea last month. He said little in court, just answering the judge’s questions.
Peterson, 37, pleaded no contest March 8 to "the abominable and detestable crime against nature,” also known as sodomy or bestiality. He was charged as a fourth-time habitual offender.
Hicks cited two reasons for exceeding state guidelines. One is that those guidelines don’t take into account having an animal as the victim of a sex crime, keeping the guidelines lower than they would otherwise be. Another, Hicks said, is that Peterson has not adjusted well to life in jail.
“There have been many complaints of unwanted and inappropriate touching,” the judge said, leading to his conclusion that Peterson poses a high risk of reoffending.
http://media.mlive.com/muskegonchronicle/photo/2013/04/12615759-large.jpg
MUSKEGON, MI – A Muskegon County judge went above state sentencing guidelines to order Kurtis Peter Peterson to state prison for between one and 15 years for repeatedly having sex with dogs.
State guidelines would have meant a sentence to the Muskegon County Jail plus probation, with the jail sentence certain to end almost immediately because Peterson has already spent 321 days in jail.
A sentence to the Michigan Department of Corrections – even though Peterson will be eligible for his first parole consideration soon – makes it likelier he’ll be kept in a controlled setting, which 14th Circuit Judge Timothy G. Hicks considers essential.
“Community supervision would be a struggle at this time,” Hicks said. He said presentence investigators believe Peterson carries a high risk of reoffending if left unsupervised. “I fear for what he might do in the community,” the judge said.
Hicks said Peterson has “pretty low cognitive ability” and Peterson’s public defender, Belinda Barbier, said her client has serious mental health issues that need to be addressed with long-term counseling that he has not been receiving.
Throughout the sentencing, Peterson swayed continuously, shifting his weight from foot to foot as he did at his plea last month. He said little in court, just answering the judge’s questions.
Peterson, 37, pleaded no contest March 8 to "the abominable and detestable crime against nature,” also known as sodomy or bestiality. He was charged as a fourth-time habitual offender.
Hicks cited two reasons for exceeding state guidelines. One is that those guidelines don’t take into account having an animal as the victim of a sex crime, keeping the guidelines lower than they would otherwise be. Another, Hicks said, is that Peterson has not adjusted well to life in jail.
“There have been many complaints of unwanted and inappropriate touching,” the judge said, leading to his conclusion that Peterson poses a high risk of reoffending.