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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_horse_molester > SC man gets 3 years in prison for sex with horse
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> FILE - An undated file photo provided by Horry County Detention Center
> shows Rodell Vereen, 50, who was …
> Wed Nov 4, 9:20 pm ET
> CONWAY, S.C. – A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a
> horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading
> guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.
> Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the
> horse's owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point
> over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after
> admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.
> "I'm sorry about what I've done. I didn't mean to do it. It's my fault.
> I'm sorry for what I've done to myself," Vereen said during Wednesday's
> court hearing.
> Vereen was arrested in July after Barbara Kenley caught him entering
> the barn at Lazy B Stables in Longs, about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle
> Beach. She had been staking out the stable for more than a week after
> setting up a surveillance camera and videotaping Vereen's assault on
> her 21-year-old horse named Sugar.
> Kenley said she became suspicious because her horse was acting strange
> and getting infections, and she noticed things were moved around the
> barn and dirt was piled up near the horse's stall.
> It wasn't the first time she'd caught Vereen. In late 2007, Kenley
> found him asleep in the hay after assaulting her horse. For that
> offense, he also pleaded guilty to buggery, received probation and had
> to register as a sex offender.
> On Wednesday, the judge sentenced Vereen to five years in prison, but
> he will only have to serve three years behind bars as long as he
> successfully completes two years of probation. Vereen also was ordered
> to undergo additional mental treatment after he gets out of prison and
> was told to stay away from Kenley's stable.
> Kenley told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach she was mostly happy with the
> verdict, but wished Vereen had got more prison time.
> "I've been through hell for the last year and it's caused a lot of
> hardship," Kenley told the newspaper. "There's a lot of ridicule and
> jokes going around about this thing. And a person can only take so
> much."
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> Peace,
> Steve
I wonder if Mr. Rodell Vereen is related to actor/dancer/choreographer
Ben Vereen. The link to this story shows a mug shot of a man that
resembles Ben Vereen quite a bit, and just not in skin color.
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