5 Criminal charges, guilty plea, and sentencing.Under current Washington law, bestiality is now a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Pinyan's death rapidly prompted the enactment of a bill by the Washington State Legislature that prohibits both sex with animals and the videotaping of such an act. The story was reported in The Seattle Times and was one of that paper's most read stories of 2005. After engaging in this activity on multiple occasions over an unknown span of time, Pinyan received fatal internal injuries in one such incident. Pinyan and Tait filmed and distributed zoophilic pornography of Pinyan receiving anal sex from a stallion under the alias 'Mr. The Enumclaw horse sex case was a series of incidents in 2005 involving Kenneth Pinyan, an engineer who worked for Boeing and resided in Gig Harbor, Washington James Michael Tait, a truck driver and other unidentified men. Hands), James Michael Tait, an unidentified male, and a stallion Unincorporated King County, Washington, United States (near Enumclaw)Īcute peritonitis caused by traumatic perforation of the colon