An Allston man has been found guilty of cruelty to animals after prosecutors said he had sex with a horse in the summer of 2021.
Jackson Z. Kelley, 21, whose address at the time of his arrest in July 2021 was Linden Street in Allston, pleaded guilty Friday in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham to a charge of cruelty to animals.
Superior Court Judge Beverly J. Cannone sentenced Kelley to four years of probation and to a litany of conditions, including an order to stay away from animals and to receive counseling for sexually paraphilic behaviors.
Prosecutors say that Kelley, 19 at the time, was at a party near his parents’ home in Norfolk the evening of July 14, 2021, which lasted into the early morning hours of the next day.
Surveillance video from Turner Hill Equestrian Center in Norfolk captured the following scene at around 4:13 a.m. July 15, 2021, as described in the prosecution’s statement of the case: “an approximately 5’8” man with light brown skin enters the stable, turns on the lights, and walks into the stall of an approximately 1,200 pound female horse that was boarded at the stable. The man exits the stall while pulling up his pants.”
But Kelley was apparently not done, as he continued the assault — which is very detailed in the report — by taking the horse out of the stall and then cross-tying it as he retrieved a stepladder to continue the criminal actions.
“The horse repeatedly pulls away, and the man repositions the stepladder behind the horse,” one section from the footage summary states. “The man brings the horse a bowl of grain and unties one cross tie … The surveillance video shows the man repeatedly moving the stepladder as the horse moves …” The man, finished, then takes a drag off an electronic cigarette and checks his red cellphone.
All in all, as the Herald reported previously, Kelley assaulted the horse about 10 times during the 38-minute course of the surveillance video.
An unnamed person, however, was observing the camera feed as this all went down and called the cops. The owner of the stable released screenshots from the footage to the public and on July 19, some “juveniles” told police that “the man appeared to be a former classmate whom they identified as Jackson Kelley.”
Kelley under the plea deal’s sentence must: continue with mental health treatment, submit to an independent evaluation for assessment of his current medication, receive counseling for sexually paraphilic behaviors, to not use drugs and to submit to random drug testing, to stay away from anyone named in the investigation, to stay away from and have no contact with animals, to stay away from places where animals may be present and to not work with animals.
The plea deal left a second charge of sexual contact with an animal continued without a finding.
