An animal abuser has been handed a four year community correctional sentence for having sex with a friend’s pet pit bull while his girlfriend recorded his acts of bestiality. Jerry Morgan III was sentenced Friday over the December 2019 video of him molesting the dog, which was recorded by his girlfriend Catrece Peel at his home in Anderson, Indiana.

Morgan was given the female dog to care for by a friend called Kathleen Dates on Christmas Eve. Dates rushed to collect her two days later after Peel posted clips of her lover sexually abusing the pit bull on Facebook.

Court documents say Morgan’s abuse left the dog ‘very off’ and said that Dates’ pet had been uncharacteristically sleepy after being brought home by its owner. Dates immediately contacted police about the clips of Morgan with her pet.

After he was brought in for questioning, Morgan initially denied bestiality, insisting that he ‘had washed the dog and was only drying the dog off’ and that ‘he was doing nothing wrong,’ the Herald Bulletin reported.

But he later struck a plea deal which saw him admit crimes including bestiality, criminal confinement and domestic battery.

Peel did not face any criminal charges over the bestiality video. She also asked for a no-contact order barring Morgan from contacting her to be lifted.

That was imposed in November 2019 after Morgan allegedly held a knife to her throat.

Probation officers are now set to decide whether Morgan should serve his sentence in a work release program, or in home detention.

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