Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A man in Spanaway, Wash., has become the first to be charged under the state's new bestiality law. The Seattle Times reported that 26-year old Michael Patrick McPhail was charged Thursday after his wife allegedly caught him having sex with the family's 4-year old pit bull. His wife allegedly snapped pictures of the act with her camera phone before dialing 911, the report said. Advertisement McPhail, who was charged with one act of first-degree animal cruelty, was bailed out of jail Friday. McPhail is the first person to be charged under the new law, which makes bestiality a Class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The Times reported that the law was enacted after a Seattle man died last year after having sex with a horse at a farm in Enumclaw.
