Posted on 09/25/2009 9:57:52 AM PDT by dead
Perhaps the Garden State should switch its nickname to the Barnyard State.
A New Jersey judge has dismissed animal cruelty charges against a cop accused of committing a sex act with cows, saying a grand jury had no way of knowing whether the animals were "tormented."
Moorestown police officer Robert Melia, who is currently suspended, allegedly stuck his penis in the mouths of five calves in Southampton in 2006. Since New Jersey currently has no law explicitly banning such an act, prosecutors in Burlington county brought animal cruelty charges against Melia, the Philadelphia Daily News reports.
"If the cow had the cognitive ability to form thought and speak, would it say, 'Where's the milk? I'm not getting any milk,'" Judge James J. Morley reportedly said.
Judge Morely said ultimately, it was highly questionable that Melia's acts, though "disgusting," constituted animal cruelty.
"I'm not saying it's OK," the Philadelphia Daily News quotes Judge Morely as saying. "This is a legal question for me. It's not a questions of morals. It's not a question of hygiene. It's not a question of how people should conduct themselves."
The dismissal reportedly irked the prosecution.
"I think any reasonable juror could infer that a man's penis in the mouth of a calf is torment," a Burlington County assistant prosecutor, Kevin Morgan, said. "It's a crime against nature."
The prosecution also claims a video in which a calf allegedly head-butts Malia was never seen by the grand jury, the Philadelphia Daily News reports.
But this is not the end to Melia's legal woes. He, along with girlfriend Heather Lewis, were arrested in April 2008 for sexually assaulting three girls over a five-year-period...
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How disgusting, I mean if it was a goat that is a different matter, but a cow...
- A. Khomeni.
LOL!!!!!!!! Good One!
so I suppose Judge Morely goes on the shortlist of Obama SCOTUS nominees....
He should have moved to Massachusetts and married the cow (the bovine one) and everything would be acceptable.
Was the Cow Stump Broke?
LOL! Oh, yeah. This one's doomed. :-)
The cow they cited wasn't involved. It was the udder one.
“Since New Jersey currently has no law explicitly banning such an act”
I want to get this comment in before the thread is pulled.
Words fail me. You have to have an explicit law for this behavior?
Just a judge acting on common sense alone would send “Moorestown police officer Robert Melia” to the nearest shrink and remove him from any job that puts him in authority and carrying guns.
And that is not including the other charges against him:
“sexually assaulting three girls over a five-year-period...”
There is one good thing legally coming from these cases.
These judges are dismissing the charges based on the fact the cow can’t tell them they wre abused, etc.
We need to use these judges rulings against any group that will sue on behalf of animals agaisnt owners and farmers for violating their ‘rights’ (ie Cass Sunnstein - don’t know if that’s the correct spelling).
Elsie is not pleased.
Anybody ever watch “The Cowboy Way”?
Your call Stubby
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Robert Melia = Me? Oral Biter.
When I was in seventh grade, I used to amuse my friends by pulling down the hefty Illinois Revised Statutes tome and finding the section on "whosesoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature".
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