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As of reporting in January 2025, animal-law watchdogs and legal trackers report that only West Virginia lacks an explicit state statute banning sexual acts with animals; the Animal Legal Defense Fund ...
Since 2000 dozens of jurisdictions have updated laws that criminalize sex with animals or tightened related animal‑welfare statutes. Reporting and legal trackers show major waves: many U.S. states rew...
As of reporting in early 2025, advocacy groups tracking state animal-cruelty statutes report West Virginia as the only U.S. state without an explicit statutory ban on sexual acts with animals (bestial...
A wave of state actions since 2014 closed many of the previously identified gaps in U.S. law against sexual acts with animals: notable post-2014 enactments and fixes include New Jersey in 2015, Texas ...
Since 2010 a wave of explicit statutory bans on sexual acts with animals — often framed as clarifying animal‑welfare law — have been enacted in multiple countries and U.S. states; the best documented,...
U.S. criminal law on sexual activity with animals (commonly called bestiality) is mostly handled by state statutes, not federal law; recent reporting and advocacy note that most states ban it but at l...
Laws on sexual activity between humans and animals (commonly called zoophilia or bestiality) vary widely by jurisdiction: most U.S. states now criminalize it, with penalties ranging from misdemeanors ...
Available reporting indicates that nearly every U.S. state now has an explicit statute banning sexual activity with animals, with advocacy groups and legal trackers naming West Virginia as the last st...
Available sources do not mention a clear, recent case in which a man named Colin Gordon left his dog with his ex‑wife, faced animal‑abuse charges, and then had those charges dropped. The search result...
Available reporting does not identify or document any public allegation that a person named “Collin Gordon” neglected his dog; the closest relevant case in the provided sources is People v. Gordon, a ...
Penalties for sexual activity with animals vary widely across U.S. jurisdictions: most states now criminalize it, with sanctions ranging from misdemeanors to felonies, prison sentences, fines, probati...