Rodell Vereen's Sex With Horse Nets Him 3 Years Prison

CONWAY, S.C. — A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.

Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the horse's owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.

"I'm sorry about what I've done. I didn't mean to do it. It's my fault. I'm sorry for what I've done to myself," Vereen said during Wednesday's court hearing.

Vereen was arrested in July after Barbara Kenley caught him entering the barn at Lazy B Stables in Longs, about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach. She had been staking out the stable for more than a week after setting up a surveillance camera and videotaping Vereen's assault on her 21-year-old horse named Sugar.

Kenley said she became suspicious because her horse was acting strange and getting infections, and she noticed things were moved around the barn and dirt was piled up near the horse's stall.

It wasn't the first time she'd caught Vereen. In late 2007, Kenley found him asleep in the hay after assaulting her horse. For that offense, he also pleaded guilty to buggery, received probation and had to register as a sex offender.

On Wednesday, the judge sentenced Vereen to five years in prison, but he will only have to serve three years behind bars as long as he successfully completes two years of probation. Vereen also was ordered to undergo additional mental treatment after he gets out of prison and was told to stay away from Kenley's stable.

Kenley told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach she was mostly happy with the verdict, but wished Vereen had got more prison time.

"I've been through hell for the last year and it's caused a lot of hardship," Kenley told the newspaper. "There's a lot of ridicule and jokes going around about this thing. And a person can only take so much."

Comments

[duxguts]

Sounds like the "Sewing wild oats" defense didn't work.

[alanposting]

don't forget these same people who cry jail for everyone and everything are the same ones yelling how much they pay in taxes. If the article had mentioned that it would cost those same ones yelling for jail for this ridiculous charge about $400,000 for this three year period, maybe then they would come to their senses. I bet it will even be a private prison and they have a $ reason to throw you in jail for anything.
BTW...I think the lady that put up all the cameras needs to see the shrink.

[jackbutler5555]

We got this neat solution for people with disorders. We send them to jail. And, as everybody knows, he will get the counseling he needs to quit horsing around.

So, when he gets out he will have a stable personality. He will no longer be saddled with this mental problem. Whatever happened to the principle that what a horse does in her stall is her own private business. If only Mr. Ed were around that stable, he would have been able to sort out the he-said, she-said in his testimony. For example, was the horse asking for it. Nudity, for one thing, and that come-hither gaze when the perp came to visit. That sexy whinny.

[jessicajuliette]

kenny--thanks-was talking to a friend discussing how you know it's bad when a horse can get a second date and you cant...(it really was a friend i was referring to i'm married)

gotta fan anyone who thinks i'm funny...fanned...

[bensisco]

At least the horse was 21 years old.

[moJJo]

i thought horse back riding is legal in the south!

[alanposting]

It would not have to go to jail, if he had just stopped horsing around..

[oceanofconsciousness]

And all this time I thought he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

[flamflurm]

Brilliant!

[fanifesu]

i wonder if he's related to ben vereen.

[jessicajuliette]

Gives new meaning to the term "Bare-backing"...

[Killjoy]

Is this a joke??

[JonathanTroy]

After sentencing, he was happy because he heard he was going to the Pokey.

[jimfl]

If I had a son, daughter or a pet I liked I would get out of SC.

[flamflurm]

as for yourself...

[jessicajuliette]

Romeo and Juliet, Rodell and Sugar...the path of true love never runs smoothly....

[mypov123]

I'm sure it hasn't been a smooth ride for the two of them....sorry, I couldn't help myself lol.

[jessicajuliette]

this Rodell is a keeper...at least he didn't use sugar for a one night stand..better than some guys out there.

[kennyfasugbe]

Now, that is the funniest comment ever regarding this piece of sh@t news! LMAO

[jessicajuliette]

kenny somehow my reply got misplaced--fanned you...