A Sherborn teen was charged this afternoon with allegedly having sex with sheep at a farm near his home, a pattern police suggest may have gone on for nearly a year.
Roger Henderson II, 18, was charged today in Natick District Court with bestiality, cruelty to animals and breaking and entering in connection with an incident police say took place on June 27.
Following his arraignment, he was released to his parents on the condition that he stay at least 30 yards away from Boggastow Farm, where the alleged bestiality took place, and animals in general. Henderson was also ordered to continue mental health treatments at Leonard Morse hospital in Natick.
According to police reports, the incident at the farm last month was just the latest in at least a dozen break-ins. Prompted by the earlier incidents, the owner of the farm installed surveillance cameras, including one near the sheep pen.
Between 3 and 4 a.m. on June 27, the police report says, the camera captured and filmed a person identified as Roger Henderson II.
"Henderson is observed in sheep pen grabbing a sheep by its hind legs and dragging it to the corner of the stall. Henderson removes his clothes and appears to have sexual relations with the sheep. Upon finishing, Henderson puts his pants back on and leaves the barn area with his shirt in his hand."
Though Henderson was in police custody this afternoon, his appearance was waived in court, as prosecutors and his defense attorney quickly agreed to terms of his release. He left the court house about 30 minutes later, covering his face with a black T shirt, and wearing dark jeans, and was immediately whisked away in a Jeep Cherokee.
Henderson is due back in court Sept. 4 for a pre-trial conference.
(I was sick of starting individual threads for these)
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Ok, I was just aiming for the "new thread" button when I noticed this, so I'll put it here. Read this in the paper today, one more example of why arguing on The Internets is retarded:
He gets seven years; blaze was revenge for being called a nerd
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, July 27, 2007
From Wire Reports Angela K. Brown, The Associated Press
ELM MOTT, Texas – It was an Internet feud that got out of hand.
Russell Tavares got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet, climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas. He recorded his progress by posting photos online showing welcome signs at several state's borders. Then he burned down the other guy's trailer.
This week, Mr. Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson and admitting he set the blaze.
"I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill anybody over an Internet fight," said John Anderson, 59, who suffered smoke inhalation while trying to put out the 2005 blaze.
The feud started when Mr. Anderson, who runs a haunted house attraction near Waco, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After he blocked some people from his page because of insults and foul language, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him, he said.
Mr. Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Mr. Tavares, a.k.a. "PyroDice."
Investigators say Mr. Tavares boiled over when Mr. Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Mr. Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under the words "Revenge of the Nerds."
Mr. Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started toward Texas. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Mr. Anderson and shoot his computer.
Instead, when he got to Elm Mott – after posting a photo of a "Welcome to Texas" sign – Mr. Tavares threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Mr. Anderson's mobile home and lit a flare, authorities say.
Mr. Tavares' attorney, Susan Kelly Johnston, said his trip to the Waco area was a last-minute decision during a cross-country trip to visit his parents in Arizona. She said he never intended to hurt Mr. Anderson.
James Pack, an investigator with the McLennan County sheriff's office, caught up with Mr. Tavares after talking to people who had been involved in the online feud.
"He lost everything – all over an Internet squabble," the investigator said.
Mr. Tavares was discharged last year from the Navy, where he was a fire controlman 2nd class petty officer. He had been in the Navy for nine years.
He wouldn't let the feud go even at his sentencing. Mr. Pack said Mr. Tavares took cellphone photos of Mr. Anderson in the courtroom while the judge was hearing another case. Authorities ordered the photos erased.
Angela K. Brown,
The Associated Press
And oh yeah, Ninja is a NERD. And horses are stupid, but tasty.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Oh yeah? Well if I wasn't having a beer and watching the Tour right now, I'd take the time to post a pic of a guy in short pants with a gun and a laptop and call it you. That'd teach you.
I started to look for a pic of this guy by googling "tavares", but all I found was this:
and then I kinda quit looking.
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