The man, known only by initials DLW convicted of 13 counts of sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters over a 10-year period has successfully challenged a separate count of bestiality which, as it turns out, requires penetration for it to have been illegal.
The decision that was supported by all but one of the justices acquitted the man of forcing the family dog to take part in the sexual abuse of his stepdaughters, Reuters reported.
“Although bestiality was often subsumed in terms such as sodomy or buggery, penetration was the essence – ‘the defining act’ – of the offence,” the court said, according to the Independent.
The court didn’t have the power to rule otherwise since all of the previous decisions regarding bestiality have always involved penetration which is an obligatory aspect in such cases, Justice Thomas Cromwell, writing on behalf of all judges, said.
“Parliament adopted that term [bestiality] without adding a definition of it, and the legislative history and evolution of the relevant provisions show no intent to depart from the well-understood legal meaning of the term.”
“Any expansion of criminal liability for this offense is within parliament’s exclusive domain,” Cromwell concluded.
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