Kentucky AG: Boone County Sheriff's Office helped investigate first bestiality case

Boone County Sheriff investigators assisted with the investigation of what is believed to be the first bestiality law conviction since state lawmakers outlawed sex with animals in 2019, according to a Kentucky Attorney General release.

The 97-0 vote passing of Senate Bill 67 in March 2019 made Kentucky one of the last states to make bestiality illegal, according to a Courier-Journal article.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the convictions Tuesday in the release. 

The Boone County Sheriff's Office assisted the Maysville Police Department and Assistant Attorney General Rewa Zakharia of the AG's office of special prosecutions, according to the release.

Bracken County resident Nolene Renee Horn, 44, and Mason County resident Christopher S. Jones, 50, have each pleaded guilty in Mason County to two felony counts of sexual crimes against an animal, and two misdemeanor counts of torture of a dog, according to the release. Horn and Jones were indicted in June.

The felony charges are punishable by a sentence of up to five years in prison with a minimum sentence of one year in prison.

Mason County Circuit Court Judge Stockton B. Wood is scheduled to issue sentences on Feb. 21, 2021.