THREE farmers who had sex with horses, goats, dogs, and a cow need to continue serving their decades-long prison sentences behind bars, a Pennsylvania court decided on Thursday.
Matthew Brubaker, 32, Marc Measnikoff, 36, and Terry Wallace, 42, made videos of themselves while engaging in bestiality and even recruited a teenage boy to help them with their sick acts, investigators said.
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All three men lived in rundown trailers on a farm near Munson, where they sexually abused their own animals for a period of four to five years, Penn Live reported.
The teen told detectives he was asked to retrieve the animals, then drop the one of choice into a specially designed chute where the men had sex with them, cops said.
He also told police that the trio lured him to their farm by asking for help in caring for the creatures - then ordered him to participate in the abuse, investigators said.
Authorities busted up the animal abuse ring in 2018, when the boy helped report it to the cops.
The boy was taken into protective custody after the farmers' depraved operation was shut down.
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In an opinion presented by President Judge Emeritus John Bender, the Pennsylvania Superior Court panel upheld the 20-41-year prison sentences for the men at a hearing on Thursday.
At their hearing on Thursday, Brubaker, Measnikoff, and Wallace unsuccessfully argued that their prison sentences were too harsh.
They insisted that Judge Paul Cherry, who originally sentenced them to jail, only considered the nature of their crimes and the teen's involvement - not their rehabilitation needs.
All three had pleaded guilty in Clearfield County court to charges of corruption of minors, 730 counts of sexual intercourse with animals, and 730 counts of cruelty to animals
Cherry said he'd given the men long sentences to allow Meansikoff "adequate time to work on his mental health through treatment and time to refrain from said acts."
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In the case of Meansikoff, “a long incarceration will allow (him) adequate time to work on his mental health through treatment and time to refrain from said acts so that he may become a healthy, law abiding, and productive member of society,” Cherry wrote.
Bender agreed with Cherry that the three are at a place where they need to be in order to get treatment for the mental illnesses that caused them to commit their crimes.
Their punishments are even more just because the men "exposed a minor child to (their) abhorrent offenses for years on end," Bender wrote.
