The President of Freaks R Us
Mar 01 2010
I hate to hit you all with this on a Monday morning, but Wisconsin’s horseowners really do need to be aware of this guy, if they aren’t already. So bear with me and go get your coffee first before you have to read this one.
Sterling Rachwal is yet another of those warped individuals who likes to have sex with animals. Sterling, however, takes it a little further than most – he’s a sexual sadist and he likes to kill them, too, often in perverted ways. Click on the below links at your own risk – what has been seen cannot be unseen, as they say, and while there are no pictures, the descriptions are graphic enough to give a lot of people nightmares.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=wi&vol=app%5C94-1746&invol=2
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/860/WI/US/
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/Rachwal-sent-back-to-mental-institution
This guy has been doing this stuff his entire life. He isn’t going to change and he can’t be rehabilitated. Get this, some completely judgmentarded woman named Chris Ranta is dating him. I really don’t have words for that…it’s more kinds of ewww than I even want to think about.Â
Anyway, he’s current back in a mental instituation but he can appeal that every six months so if you have horses in Wisconsin, you might want to stay on top of that. Someone was helpful enough to post on CL that he drives a blue 1993 Ford F150 and his license plate is GZ6576. I mean, obviously he might trade that in but I’m still happy to put that ID’ing tip out there!Â
Oh, here’s his Facebook page. Apparently he started out with 37 friends…it’s down to 8 people with incredibly poor judgment now.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=search&id=1625623660
If you are local, I recommend following this thread for updates and news about what you can do to keep this guy locked up for life:
http://mhwf.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4359214
And ladies? For god’s sake, stop friending everyone who sends you a request on Facebook. And be aware of who your kids are friending!  Friend your FRIENDS, for God’s sake, and make your profiles private to everybody else.  This will not only help keep you away from horse molesters, it will also keep you away from child molesters, serial killers, etc.  This has been today’s public service announcement…
If you like a smaller horse and want to lead the way on the trail, consider Harmony, a Quarab mare who is up for adoption at Shiloh Horse Rescue in Nevada. What a cutie! She was narrowly rescued from being a sandwich and is sound, rehabbed and ready to go.Â
If you like a smaller horse and want to lead the way on the trail, consider Harmony, a Quarab mare who is up for adoption at Shiloh Horse Rescue in Nevada. What a cutie! She was narrowly rescued from being a sandwich and is sound, rehabbed and ready to go.Â
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How disturbing, mostly that he got away with it for so long…hellllo anyone that does THAT to an animal is mental, lock em up forever!!!!!! I would have a hard time forgiving myself if that happened to one of my horses cuz I let that nutfuck to enter my life.
WHY lock them up though??? Do we really need license plates or rock piles or whatever that bad? What the hell are we saving them for?
Because if you lock somebody up by mistake, you can free them and give them compensation. If you kill them, you can only apologize to their gravestone.
But he admits that he did it and has a problem….there is no mistake to be made.
Yes, but one cannot agree with the death penalty ‘only if the person confesses’. Look up West Midlands Serious Crime Squad.
okay…. is he completely serious with that moustache? that was the first thing i thought when i opened up the page. its like having a big sign pointing to you screaming IM A HUGE CREEPER AND HORSE MOLESTER.
I know – hey, thank God he doesn’t try to look normal, huh? Although if you look at the Facebook photo, he looks quite a bit different and seems to have gained weight since that picture. He may be trying to alter his appearance.
That ‘stache is pretty hideous. He reminds me of the Gypsy Vanner pic TehSil posted a few days ago under “Obviously I’m Pooping”.
I disagree, I know two individuals with mustaches like that that are as kind as anyone can be to animals and kids. One even sponsors a stretch of highway and picks up garbage with his own hands. I don’t think you can make a broad generalization like that…I think women look creepy with short hair, but that doesn’t mean anything.
Sorry-didn’t mean to offend. I’m not anti-moustache, heck my boyfriend is sporting the Tom Selleck ‘stache (and looks pretty dang good with it IMO). I just think this particular one is creepy, he looks like the human incarnation of the Dick Dastardly character from the old Hanna Barbara cartoons.
….D: I’m scared just looking at him. What a creeper, HOW can this guy still be allowed to interact with people outside of a jail? Disgusting.
I worked up the courage to check out some of the links.. I feel totally sick. What a psycho. Please someone catch him on their property and give him both barrels.
Heck. Even Trina Kinney is on facebook with a bunch of friends.
Ahhh…Good ole’ Sterling Rachwel. Another pimple on the ass of society. Someone brought him up on here before around the time of his last arrest. I distinctly remember googling him and puking in my mouth a little at what came up. I also got his welding resume off of Linkdn and I’m pretty sure I posted his address in your comments somewhere. It has since changed, I saw his new address somewhere but I guess that is a moot point for now until he gets out again.
As for the foul woman that would lay next to him, I can’t help but picture some mentally deviant fat slob welfare bitch with a passle of kids by various inmates who believes any crappy excuse he gives her to downplay his behavior. I’ll bet she has a poor fugly horse or two in her backyard behind her trailer too. I mean, no normal person could possibly be dating this creep, right?
Everyone in the Fon du Lac area needs to be aware of this guy, he truly is a menace to society with no chance of behaving like a normal person. On a similar note, has anyone else heard about this guy?
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/12/erick_rivera_serial_horse_rapi.php
Unfortunately it is not that sort of woman who goes for these creeps.
They are often good income, high intelligenced people, who are just a little “off kilter”.
I doubt he would go for a low intelligenced woman anyway as, totally apart form the fact that ALL men seem to think they can bat outside their average (sorry, do you get that one, it might not translate!) these sort of freaks always seem to think they are better than everyone else, and therefore should be allowed to do what they want, as if the rules do not apply to them….quite possible an autism linked [NOT suggesting it is autism as an excuse BTW] problem (and before you all jump on me, I have worked in mental health for 25 years, I do know autism!!) He obviously is not relating to the real world.
If he had not been intending to go through with his perversion (I do not use that word lightly as I have seen what the court lists as a perversion and do not agree with it!!) then why was he wearing latex gloves because, believe me, I wear them every day but they are NOT the fashion wear of my choice, they are to protect my hands because I am doing dirty work!!
Just saw his girlfriend on the online news report, and yup-she is pretty much I expected (maybe a little cleaner and with better grammer). I realize it isn’t always this type that winds up with these losers, but you have to admit this guy is a pretty extreme case. I can’t imagine any woman with any common sense and self-respect who is an active, functioning member of society would have anything to do with this creep. Any woman who has been in the dating pool has dated her fair share of losers-myself included-but damn, this guy goes way beyond that!
Absolutely, Kirri. I work as a consultant, usually to women who have an education, brains, looks and money. I knew a woman who works as an executive for a corporation. She dated an animal torturer for a long time. She saw no connection between this activity and the fact that he was a porn addict who liked to describe their twisted sex life loudly at parties. I’ve met women who hold responsible bureaucratic positions and allow the most disgusting treatment of themselves at home. One was an insurance fraud investigator, with a razor sharp mind. I knew one who was as community support worker, supposedly helping others get their sad lives together. Her husband like to tell people at social gatherings how he held her head down under the covers while he farted. His friends did the same with their wives.
And yeah, I hate that “on welfare” stereotype too. It may be occasionally true. But there are plennnty of women who pull down high incomes, and support some chronically unemployed slob for years. There are many male gold diggers. Now THAT’s low self esteem.
I met a very sweet, attractive lady who worked like a dog, as a janitor. She scrubbed toilets all night so her slob of a husband could lay on the couch, playing guitar. Which he never played well enough to get a gig. She “believed” in him. Hello, if you’re not employed as a musician by 50, it’s not gonna happen. When her kids were old enough, they scrubbed toilets for him too. I had a client who owned a successful business, wore designer suits, drove a late model car. She would not ask her husband to go for a half hour walk so she could get some tricky work done in peace. Did not feel she could ask someone who allegedly “loved” her, for that small thing.
Please, cut out the stereotypes and look at reality. Oh, and lots of women struggle with their weight. Including the most successful one in the world: Oprah. Fat by no means equals stupid.
I made a generalization that was obviously in poor taste, it was a knee-jerk reaction and I shouldn’t have said it. But I do believe that women of lower intelligence/self-esteem/economic standing are more likely to end up with these creeps. That is my opinion, that is what I have seen in my life experiences. Geez, to here some of you tell it, only successful and financially stable women wind up with losers. I think the bottom line is there are women from all walks of life that wind up in these situations, and it goes a little beyond self-esteem issues to be able to rationalize the type of depravity that Rachwal has displayed and have a relationship in any capacity with them.
inkeesgirl- As for the “fat slob” comment, again in poor taste, I shouldn’t have said it. I do agree with you. I am packing some extra pounds myself, which I agree makes my comment even more stupid. Sorry to those of you I offended, I realize how insensitive my comment was. We are all entitled to our opinion, no matter how acinine, it just doesn’t always need to be voiced.
OT- Fugly, I know how you feel about HYPP and was wondering if you have ever came across this sight? It is very informative and contains not only info about HYPP but HERDA and LWO also. The facts page is especially good. I think it should be a required read for anyone unfamiliar with the disorder along with anyone who still thinks HYPP is not a big deal.
http://www.bringinglighttohypp.org/Index.html
I have referenced that site here many, many times.
I scrolled down the page of the link you provided and unfortunately read some of he comments–SICK, SICK, SICK!!
The worst comment has to be that “rape is just surprise sex” WTF!! And they don’t think it hurt the horses because they are so big. Physical pain is only part of this–these people have no idea how sensitive horses are, not to mention the feelings their owners must have knowing their partner/heart horse has been violated this way! Must go take a shower with Lava soap and steel wool!!!
I haven’t looked at the articles (used up my Sanity Watchers points today kthanxbye) but the “surprise sex” thing is an Internet meme to get a rise out of people, like the 40 lb box of rape and the “You said rape twice” “I like rape” exchange from Blazing Saddles. Some people don’t think a thread is done until every meme related to it is posted.
Thanks for the info. Never saw Blazing Saddles–don’t really like/get that kind of humor. I really appreciate the knowledge. The web is a funny place ya’ know, just when I think I’m reasonably intelligent and informed something comes along to prove that it’s just a fantasy.
“Another pimple on the ass of society.”
Holy hell. I laughed so hard when I read that. xD
Not all of us “fat slobs” are ‘welfare bitches”. Some of us have good jobs with 6 figure incomes. Some of have great marriages or relationships with wonderful men. Most of us are struggling to lose weight. Some of even own horses and are accomplished riders. And there are plenty of thin women collecting welfare.
With all due respect, and quite OT, “you” also statistically live significantly shorter lives, and cost the health care system a great deal more $$$.
Funny that job status & wealth are the first criteria for success.
OMG, this is the BEST quote ever! “This guy makes Michael Vick look like a charter member of PETA,” (from the article in the link.)
That is perfect for BOTH these freaks!
I’m sorry, but all the coffee in the world — even the kind I like, “could pass for diesel fuel” and black, black, black — is not enough to prepare me for this entry. I did not click on the links for the descriptions of what this “cretard” has been sentenced for doing, but I simply cannot FATHOM what goes on in his HEAD. I mean, I KNOW people are “wired” differently — some are sociopaths who have no conscience, some are manipulators who think the world revolves around them, but this? It defies explanation.
And if that woman is actually dating this guy, what’s up with HER? Is she so desperate?? Or maybe she can’t SEE all that well.
Let us hope the officials keep this cruddy guy behind bars forever. Those who abuse animals are just one species away from going after human beings. Research says so.
Oh too bad, I have an Arab that I would have loved to have met him. They would have found pieces of him kicked out between the slats of the barn door. If I was his girl friend, I think I’d find a hairdo other than a “ponytail”. Ewooooo!
OMG!!! As disgusting as that thought is – the “new hairdo” quote made me LOL! Ponykins FTW!
Wow…he is very creeping looking, gives me the willies just looking at him, and that mustache….eeewwww…. I just can’t imagine what goes through a person’s mind that would even make them consider wanting to have sex with an animal…. freaks me out!! Hope they lock him up for a long time, obviously he is not capable of changing, he is one sick puppy!!
http://horsefilleddays.blogspot.com/
OMG. Just when you think it can’t get any worse. Even my coffee didn’t help with this one. This is why, in the Bible, it tells man NOT to do these things to animals. Because someone HAS done those things. It just gets more bizarre and sickening every day. Will the horrors ever end?
http://www.TheHappyHookerVt.com
And that’s a good point. The fact that it is even mentioned in the Bible proves this is a deviant behavior that has existed for a very, very long time. So you can’t blame it on modern society, drugs or internet porn. I just think it’s like the desire to molest children – you can’t fix it, even molesters themselves will tell you that. All you can do is lock them up and keep others safe.
Even locking them up doesn’t guarantee everyones safety. Think of the other patients (who just might be a little off their rocker) with this lunatic roaming the halls at night. Nothing like taking advantage of someone unable to protect themselves. Castration (chemical or otherwise) might be the only answer, however, that still won’t guarantee that anything else is safe. Death is the only way to stop this. And, if we killed them all, we would have so very much to clean up and bury. It’s a sad, sad world out there.
Eeeewwww. I looked at his facebook page. His profile picture is of him with a yellow lab WHO IS LICKING HIS FACE! OMG. It just keeps getting sicker and sicker. Poor dog.
Good point. I would worry about him with other humans, too.
I saw that when I clicked on the link and kinda wondered why you didn’t say anything fugs. :/
I actually think castration should be mandatory, and chemical castration oftne either does not work or has loads of side effects so, heck, it is not as if it is anything more than a routine operation, geld the bastards and have done.
They would often actually be grateful, as they just might get their lives back!!
Castration probably wouldn’t stop him. Rape isn’t about sex, it’s about *POWER.* Plus the fact that this guy BRAGS that he’s never actually had sex with the horse, just masturbated while shoving things up various holes.
People are SICK.
-Gryph
I read comments on a forum discussing him somewhere (by someone who was from that area and seemed to have a lot of knowledge about Rachwal’s history and prior acts) that his arguement was basically this: Insertion of objects other than his own “member” weren’t sexual contact because his genitals didn’t make contact with the horse and therefore didn’t constitute sexual gratification with an animal. His defense lawyer even argued that in court at one point, had something to do with the way the Wisconsin laws regarding this were worded.
Kinda sounds like he is experienced enough to tailor his acts in an attempt to skirt the law, which not only is pretty sick but also a good indicator that he has no intention of ever stopping his disgusting behavior. Wish I could remember where the thread was but that really isn’t the kind of thing you think to bookmark.
I think an appropriate and affordable punishment would be locking him in a stall with the rankest stallion we could dig up off of craigslist and seeing how long he could control his urges. Would be a lot cheaper than incarceration and more effective than all the psychological treatment that has been wasted on him! Although really I wouldn’t wish that perv on ANY horse, no matter what…
Castration isn’t the answer, because that won’t stop molesters from molesting. There are plenty of rapists and child molesters out there that can’t get it up. They simply use other objects and their hands/mouths/whatever. The human brain is our major sex organ… usually this is a good thing but not so much in this case.
Also, lots of men who had accidents or cancer that resulted in castration are still mostly operational, so there’s no guarantee it would work in the first place.
Personally I think he should have to register as a sex offender. After all, what if he can’t find an animal but hey, there’s a little kid next door? It’s ridiculous that bestiality is treated as a misdemeanor, if it’s even illegal (which it still isn’t in many states).
okay…now that I’ve went and thrown up alittle…ewwwwwwwwww…just, ewwwwwwwww…and everyone who mentioned the moustach-io…ewwwwwwwwww…creeper galore…well, let’s just hope he stays locked up and if he doesn’t…let’s just hope he finds Ponykins Arab mare that castrates him permanently…she’ll probably be given a reward!
Ugh..Just awful.. Fugs is right on the FB stuff.. I have really strange people attempting to friend me every day..Unknown adult males..I ignore them and you can now mark that you do not know them.. Anyway, This guy, more than disgusts me, there is a fine line between animal abuse and abuse of humans..So, watch out for this man..His girlfriend, WTF? His preference has been determined, lady..Hope some smart horse kicks the sh-t out of him.. The horse…Harmony is adorable!
I’ve seen this before, she probable gets off on it or has deluded herself into thinking that it’s True Love (either between her and him, or him and the horses).
His wife? A horse.
The gal in the above link stated that she believed it was a true relationship between her boyfriend and his ‘wife’ (a Shetland-sized pony). Even more horribly IMO this was a pony she had bottle fed and thought of as her daughter.
I was just relieved that for ONCE the horse-fucking wasn’t in Washington State.
Agh what a creeper! I agree, if I caught anyone like that with my horses, the only thought in my head would be “this guys gonna die right here.”
His facebook… he’s a fan of farmville and farmtown *repeatedly bangs head on desk*
man, what a scary post.
Would that be the same Bible that says it’s OK to keep slaves and exhorts us to kill disobedient children? I think we can agree that what this guy has done is inexcusable without trying to push religion in the process.
Merely mentioned for historical context. Whether you are religious or not, the Bible does provide insight into life in ancient times.
Sorry for mentioning the Bible. Didn’t mean to start a heated discussion. Just that this has been going on for a very, very long time. And castration won’t stop them… only being a vegetable or dead will stop them. People who live around his location and people whose horses have been abused by him need to show up EVERY time he becomes eligible for release to make sure HE STAYS PUT!
Long timer lurker/first time poster
I don’t want to turn this into a Biblical discussion-but I can’t let this go unchallenged. No where in the Bible does it encourage killing disobediant children nor the ownership of slaves. I’m not sure what Bible you are reading or what filter you are using to read it but you are very, very misled if you think that is part of Biblical teaching.
Me three on the non-Biblical discussion thing, but I’d like to recommend that you re-read your Bible more closely. In the Old Testament there are extensive rule on how to keep and free your Israelite slaves (freed after 7 years, etc) and specifying that these rules don’t apply to non-Israelites, who become inheritable property (Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Isaiah, and Kings). In the New Testament, slaves are exhorted to be obedient to their masters in the Pauline epistles, and Paul returns an escaped slave to his master in the Epistle of Philemon.
As for killing children, Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is the passage I think she was referring to, and it’s a pretty clear instruction to do so. As is Deuteronomy 13:6-10. Kings 2:23-4 is another creepy pro-child killing section, though admittedly it’s a bit more metaphorical.
Look up Deuteronomy 21.10-21.14.
About twenty years ago in west central wisconsin there were some stories done by the local paper that now have me wondering. It involved horses in the area being mutilated and killed. Don’t recall if a sexual perversion was mentioned but I know it left everyone in the community worried and puzzled. I have been trying to contact the newsroom staff of the Leader Telegram in Eau Claire all morning about a possible connection here. This guy could have spent some time in the area, passing through. If someone else wants to try to get in touch with them, I admit I’ve given up after the tenth send to voicemail.
Everyone in the area is very aware of this, and we’re not going to forget just because he’s been arrested. The farm where he was found near a horse is not far from me- and it was long before anyone was aware of him!
If we had a choice, he’d stay in the mental institution.
I’m thinking penis amputation/castration and having his arms amputated would be a start to “helping” him overcome his sickness.
That guy is DISGUSTING!!!!! I’m sure glad I’m not in Wisconsin I’d have to hire an armed Security Guard for my horses. There was the Enumclaw Ranch though here in Washington so I guess we have our share of sicko perverted animal freaks to. He is obviously a re-offender and there is no hope of changing that so why does he keep getting out? As for his girlfriend….WTF???? This is so wrong on so many different levels and so many different ways I just don’t know what to say. Hopefully they will keep him locked up this time for good. I noticed that is said there were a couple horses that had to be euthanized but they couldn’t connect them to him…scary!
dapplegray ” he’s a fan of farmville and farmtown *repeatedly bangs head on desk* ”
LOL well of course he is….EEWWWWW!!!!!!
Of course he is. That is probably like porn to him. I’ll bet he is on howrse too…likely thinks of it as his virtual brothel. I’m just making assumptions here.
You know, I heard on the radio the other day that California is working on passing a law to allow the state to build an online database similar to sex offenders for people who are convicted of animal abuse. They would have to register and provide updated addresses and pictures and places of employment and everything. People could log on and check their local area for convicted animal abusers just like now people can search their area for sex offenders. That’s one reason I really like California. They are usually at the forefront of all these cool ideas and then everyone else gets to play catchup.
Oh gross. Reason #2464 to own a very big dog, and give it the run of the barn at night. Can you train a dog to bury corpses?
I have heard of people who are attracted to children, but KNOW it’s wrong, never act on it, and are every bit as horrified by their perversion as we are – probably more so, actually. Those people I have sympathy for, and modern psychology might be able to help them in some cases. But unless a pervert *wants* to change, no amount of therapy is going to be effective. Ugh.
Yeah. I also know an individual who is attracted to ‘little girls’, but absolutely knows it is wrong and knows he can’t act on it.
I feel very sorry for him, because he’s also not attracted to adults and is, thus, doomed to celibacy. But he has not acted on his desires and is absolutely determined never to do so.
It’s obvious that in some cases the sexual wiring that is intended to protect children from adult ‘interest’ sometimes gets screwed up. I mean, I personally get a sense of revulsion if I look at a 15 or 16 year old that would generally be considered attractive to their own age…there’s something in there that’s meant to stop this kind of thing…and it just…sometimes malfunctions.
What we need is a way to help these unfortunate individuals to not ACT on what they FEEL. Its a sticky wicket, because those who have problems with homosexuality will say the same thing…well you don’t have to ‘act’ on it. But any truly sane person can see the huge difference between sex between two adult, consenting males who hopefully have feelings for each other and sex with a child or an animal, neither of whom can reasonably consent.
i agree with this.
The difference between between a pedophile or…..what this guy does is the character that the “bad wireing” is built on, in my opinion. If someone who’s naturally kind, loyal, willing to have a strong set of morals, and is overal capable of functioning in society, is unfortunate to be wired to have interest in little girls, his life wont be blissful but if he knows it’s wrong and doesnt want to do wrong he shouldnt be punished for never doing anything wrong, and I feel bad for him. If someone is much like the person already described, but lazy and not particuarly disciplined in any other part of his life, he will probably mess up – and you can only mess up once with something like that before me and every other women/mother/father/normal male will want to hunt you down.
… and then if youre naturally insane, incapable of living in normal society anyway, and also are wired to like children, well, they will probably eventually make an Law and Order SVU based off of you. Because no one else other than a sadistic lunatic can think up stuff like that.
…. and Horse wise/beastality wise? I think THIS guy is the last. No one who’s thinking on a normal level has eyes like that. The mustache I can handle – I have a bar regular who has a mustache even more awesomer than that who’s lovely. His eyes are also not dead like this freaks.
The thought of someone dating him really creeps me out. Ew ew ew ew ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Just looking at his evil, soulless eyes creeps me out. He should be on death row, in my opinion. He’ll never be rehabilitated. Even castration would not remove his disgusting urges. If he’s killed horses, he may well move on to killing people.
As for the woman crazy enough to be “in love” with him, she should remember the story of the girl and the rattlesnake …
“The snake had bitten her. “How could you do this to me?” she cried. “You promised that you would not bite me, and I trusted you! You knew what I was when you picked me up,” hissed the snake as he slithered away.”
I truly can’t believe he hasn’t been kicked by a horse by now! I don’t think any of my mares would stand for that. I guess this is the punishment I get for reading this over my lunch break. Gross! And what chick in her right mind would have a relationship with a man like this? She ain’t right either. Good gracious! You would think having to sit through court, while this is all deliberated and all the sick, digusting details get labored over, would shame anyone into seeking rehab on their own. And then the guy tries to appeal and retract his plea? Is not going through that previously, enough shame for anyone for an eternity? At least he got stopped this time before he did anything. Thank God for that!
He. Has. No. Shame.
If he was ashamed of what he’d done he would be trying to find ways to stop doing it. I read in one of the stories that a vet that had treated a couple of horses with colic like symptoms but with rectal wounds that ulitmately had to be put down is now thinking that they were some of his victims…no proof though. There is no cure for this perversion except a bullet which is what he’d get if I had my way.
Okay, as for Rachwal, EWWWW. That’s all I can say. Hope he doesn’t migrate west.
As for Harmony, what a cutie!!! I love her, she just looks so sweet. She reminds of the older Quarab mare I babysat last summer. They could be twins. Hope she finds an awesome adopter.
The authorities DON’T consider him a sex offender? What the FUCK!
(We need a TV channel(s) devoted to just showing the pictures and information of these people, so at least more people would recognize them).
To address the comments that someone who would do this kind of thing to an animal are a step away from doing it to people, it’s just as bad they are doing it to an animal! When will people understand that?
People like this (and I include child molesters and rapists) just need to be dead. Seriously, what’s the point of locking them up? It costs a fortune to support them in prison or mental institutions (you know they’re eating better than a lot of decent, hardworking people, not to mention animals), eventually they’re released and pick up where they left off. It’s too easy for them to move from city to city, it’s too difficult to keep track of them and notify the public. Just kill them, grind them up for fertilizer and be done with it.
I will agree that my personal opinion is the same as yours…I object to the tax dollars of hardworking, law abiding people going to feed offenders when so many are out of work. Right now, it is easy to argue that we have a world where there is an INCENTIVE to offend and be imprisoned because then you have a place to live you can’t be evicted from and 3 square meals a day – more than many Americans have who obey the law in 2010! Prison needs to be a lot more unpleasant than it usually is. I’m a fan of that Sheriff in Arizona that took their air conditioning away and made ‘em wear pink.
Remember when you get all excited about Sherriff Joe that those conditions apply to untried, unsentenced people who have been picked up for anything, not just the violent felons that ‘deserve’ them. Old parking ticket? Can’t prove you paid it? Off to Tent City to room with the gang bangers and other violent offenders. Joe has cost the county millions of dollars in lost lawsuits, and not all of them are for bleeding heart prisoner’s rights issues. There’s a lot more, but I don’t want to derail the thread too far. But he’s under federal investigation himself right now, so hopefully we’ll have him out of here soon.
Well, the execution may have been flawed but I STILL believe he had the right idea. It’s not his fault the legal system protects the bad guys. I’m not saying he hasn’t done other things wrong, but still – depriving them of their luxuries was a great idea in my book.
He has my vote anytime he wants to run for office here. I am sick to death of the prisons being full of “innocent” people. Every con will tell you they’re innocent. I’d be interested to find out stats on how many repeat offenders this guy gets. I watched his show every chance I got, his pink jail was how they should be run…like a jail, not a damned resort.
He lets people with warrants for felonies get away all the time. Something like 40,000 felony warrants that he has failed to serve. He spends so much time going after illegal immigrants (when ICE has told him not to) that he completely ignores gang activity. People have died of heatstroke in his tent city. And need I remind everyone that most people in jail are either legally innocent (their cases haven’t gone to trial yet) or being jailed for minor crimes? It is against the Constitution to punish someone before they’ve had their day in court, and it is profoundly Un-American to think otherwise.
And that’s without going into all the gang activity that goes on that is ignored, the drug trafficking that is ignored, the kidnapping that is ignored, etc. The pink underwear he makes his prisoners wear are made by a relative of his. He owns property that should be too expensive for a guy on a sheriff’s salary to own. His deputies have stolen files from defense attorneys. He’s filed charges against political enemies, and then filed charges against the judges that threw those charges out of court. And then there was the incident when a SWAT team raided the wrong house, set fire to it, and drove the family dog back into the burning house to burn to death. And the pregnant women on an immigration violation that was kept handcuffed to the bed while she gave birth, and then she was not allowed to hold her baby afterward.
Sheriff Joe is a tinpot dictator. I hope he rots in hell.
I believe that prisons should be in the very least, humane, because it’s a fact that our legal system is not perfect and innocent people do get locked up sometimes.
But I also believe that if we’re going to house, feed and care for convicts, they ought to be working their butts off, being productive, producing something society needs or wants or serving the public in some (indirect) way. If I have to get up every morning and endure my stressful job for eight hours, why don’t prisoners have to do the same? (I mean I know some prisons have some kind of work or whatever but I was under the impression it was voluntary to make a little money… why isn’t it simply required?) There are all kinds of jobs for everyone, it doesn’t all have to be physical labor. If someone is imprisoned wrongfully, doing something productive while there isn’t going to do any harm. Hard work never killed anybody.
Personally, I would not be at all upset if he, and everybody else with sexual perversions that involve preying on helpless innocents, got dead. And I resent my tax dollars going to support them in a warehouse environment, whether prison or mental facility. But if keeping them alive involves studying them inside and out, including 24-hour interrogation and vivesecting their brains if necessary to find out what causes this behavior and how to prevent it, I’d pay for that!
And as for the question of whether it is legal to kill them if you catch them in your barn: well, if I caught someone near my animals who was uninvited and wearing latex gloves with a broomhandle in one hand and his “member” in the other, I think I would go ahead and shoot and take the chance of ending up with a sympathetic jury!
After the hearing in Waupaca he went to the county jail ‘until a spot opens up at Mendota’ (mental hospital).
If he ‘only’ had sex with the horses it would not be as scary…he should not be described as a ‘horse molester’…..he sexually attacks horses, not gender specific, preferring the anus, often using sticks/handles. Because sometimes the internal walls are ripped, (identified in court as far in as 26 inches) or other signs as nipples cut off and slashes/cuts elsewhere…. he obviously has an anger/violence reaction…..maybe due to his sexual inadequacy ?? I sure don’t want to be the person walking into the barn at that point…….
As far as why the horses don’t kick his head or (?) off there are different theories but we do know he has tied them really high, they can’t struggle very long that way and give up….he has also hobbled a pony…..remember he’s been practicing these skills for 30+ years…..before that who knows what he did to the animals on the home farm (he wasn’t allowed in the barn according to his twin brother)…oh and lets not forget the arson, setting barns on fire when very young….oh, sorry, that’s protected information, hidden in his juvenile files.
As long as I’m being nasty…..his Mother couldn’t take time out of her busy schedule to get him to mental counseling back then….she was too busy being President of some national farm-wife organization, ….but she did find time to tape record all of his trails.
Time to start harvesting the parts. This Freak-show walked into my barn, he would never walk into another.
Game over.
I heard that “horse molester” in only the tip of the iceberg–didn’t he also torture and sexually mutilate some goats to death?
I doubt a big guard dog in the barn would be adequate protection–the poor dog might end up as victim #2.
OT Re: Arabian Showing
There will be “traditional” in hand classes this year in England for Arabs. I assume that besides marking horses down for crazy behavior they will evaluate them as riding horses rather than “living art”.
Article from Horse and Hound:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/397/294898.html
Wouldn’t this solve some of the problem?
I didn’t looK at the links– just the photo posted of him was enough. So glad he is far, far away. I am really not the kind of person who looks to violence as a solution of first resort, butI am curious about if a person would be charged with murder if . . .?
Supposed you were a woman alone who went to feed your horses and found him in your barn, and he was in there asaulting one of your animals– AND you just happened to have a gun with you– or a metal pitch fork– not a knife because you would not want to get close to someone like that— anyway supposed you shot and killed him, or stabbed and killed him–
Would or could you be charged with murder? I mean, he could attack you, you could not just wait around to see if he would. AND if he is in your barn without your knowledge and permission — so is your barn like your house, and can you shoot someone because you fear he is going to kill you?
Please, I’m serious about this question because it would apply not just to finding this pervert in your barn– you could stumble in on some other pervert — things like this do happen. You wouldn’t want to wait for them to attack you first, because you could end up dead.
Opinions, anyone?
I am not an attorney, and this is not legal advice, but generally you have a right to defend yourself when you are the victim of a home invasion. You do need to believe you are in actual danger to do so. So, for example, you can’t shoot an Alzheimers patient who wanders in off the street because they are confused and is in your kitchen pouring themselves some Cheerios, but if you find a burglar in your bedroom with a weapon, you are generally within your rights to try to take him out before he takes you out.
I don’t know how far the law will go to protect someone who intervenes when an animal is being attacked. Interesting legal question. I’d love to read the existing caselaw on it.
This actually the good side of the ‘companion animals are property’ theory. In AZ at least, you are justified in using deadly force to defend your property:
13-408. Justification; use of physical force in defense of property
A person is justified in using physical force against another when and to the extent that a reasonable person would believe it necessary to prevent what a reasonable person would believe is an attempt or commission by the other person of theft or criminal damage involving tangible movable property under his possession or control, but such person may use deadly physical force under these circumstances as provided in sections 13-405, 13-406 and 13-411.
Definately check with your state. I, too, live in Az. I know a man who was fined an enormous amount of money. He was camping and a bear came into camp. It killed all three of his dogs and was tearing down the tent his children had been in – luckily they’d run to their dad when the dogs were attacking the bear. This all happened in his campsite. When the bear came toward him, he shot it and killed it. Because the bear had not attacked any people, the man was heavily fined. If you can get in trouble for something like this with an animal, I don’t know how much you would get away with killing a man who’s sexually assaulting an animal.
If you have a friend in law enforcement, you can probably ask how much force is too much if you’re attacking a person. I think the best part of the whole barn at night scenario is there isn’t anyone around to say if they threatened you or not. it still would be very rough.
This is a really interesting point. I was just reading on another board about how a woman was attacked on a trail ride. Some crazy guy grabbed at her horse’s reins, horse spooked, she fell off. Other board members encouraged to press charges against him but I wonder if the law would in fact agree that it he assaulted her, if he never actually touched her, only her animal.
Absolutely yes you can kill him. Then chop him up and either feed him to the pigs, or grind him up and mix it in with the manure pile. No one need know about it.
Why spend the time and energy to grind? Burying a horse in a manure pile is considered ‘composting.’ (Not my preferred method, by any means.) However, lacking any other option, it gets the job done. And who is going to look under the manure pile?
I’m going to comment before my knee-jerk reaction to this can be dampered by anything anyone else has to say…this is why we used to have permanent bins for people like this, and stuff like this is also why we still have the death penalty, though the bleeding hearts who protect people like this are afraid to use it. People who think that people like are treatable or there is “room for change”, I’d like to see them point someone out who has been “cured” or changed from offenses like this. I’m not deluded enough to believe he’ll ever face the death penalty unless he turns to people while trying to “deny his urges” for people, but this is why we have LAWS…so no creature has to face something this heinous.
It really fries me to think my tax dollars are going to support this. What does anyone think we are going to do with him later if he does get out? I don’t see him being the next peace prize winner.
This guy needs to be locked up for life, and not in a mental institution– in PRISON!!! We don’t need to waste resources on someone who obviously doesn’t want to get better. Anyone who has an addiction and truly wants to get better knows that the number one rule is to never, under any circumstances, put yourself in a situation where the addictive item will be. If you are an alcoholic, you don’t go to a bar to prove to yourself that you won’t drink– you STAY AWAY from bars to prove to yourself that you won’t drink! If you are a gambler and you go to a casino, it’s not to “test” yourself, it’s to gamble! If you’re addicted to raping and torturing animals, and you TRULY want to get better, then you don’t ever ever ever intentionally go places where you know there will be animals. The fact that he went to that barn to see if he would act on his old urges is solid 100% proof that he will. Even if he didn’t this time, he will. If he wasn’t going to, he wouldn’t have gone in the first place. When I get on my health food kicks and I get that urge to browse the cookie aisle, I know it’s just a matter of time……. =)
I’m sure he *wants* to get better. He may be a monster but that doesn’t mean he isn’t suffering.
This guy is psycho! What kind of sick person would do such a thing! (Excluding him of course…)
But really, get him out of the poor community! Gosh, stuff like this makes me sick.
I know just the horse to fix him right up. If you’re a man (minus my old trainer – they had a very special bond) you will be kicked to death in the stall. She trusted maybe 5 people to get her out of her stall, all others were not permitted to get near her stall in her mind. If he walked into the door, this creep would be in pieces in seconds.. she was straight off the slaughter truck and showed it in the stall. Out of her stall, she was a sweetheart. Oh, I can just see it now.
I need to bleach my brain after reading that, what a disgusting freak!!! BUT at least he`s sporting a Snidely Whiplash mustache so everyone knows he`s the bad guy as soon as they see him.
I checked out his facebook friends, this woman http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=sgm&id=1605730782 works for Family Services (I`m assuming that is similar to Social Services in Canada)…WTF!
Now, wait a minute, before you jump to conclusions about that. That woman (the family services lady) may very well be a social worker or similar whose job it is to keep tabs on this guy- what better way to keep tabs on a person than by being a friend on Facebook? Yes it is creepy but it’s a good way to watch someone. So until she steps out and publicly defends him, give her the benefit of the doubt. I’d bet that she’s some sort of social worker trying to keep an eye on him.
Good point. It could very well be that. Although usually people like that lurk more discreetly, so that the target will get sloppy…I know of another case where law enforcement has lurked on message boards to catch someone defying an order. It worked.
Is there like a law for sexually abusing animals? I’m confused. ‘Cause I heard about another guy recently who did the same thing (sneaking into barns.. and yeah). Still, that guy is disgusting. He makes me sick. I feel so bad for the poor horses, not to mention the owners! I would have no idea what to do if something like that happened to my horse O.o
Oh, and maybe I can’t read, but where does it say anywhere that he kills them in perverted ways??
Prison is too good for this jerk. I like the idea of some surgery to remove his male parts and his arms. Might slow him down in his perverted hobby. You can’t cure him, he doesn’t see anything wrong with what he’s doing. As for the women who fall for such people — they mustn’t have any self-respect. Rachwal has LOSER written all over his face. And the moustache is just vile.
I’m scared to read the description- I’m already filled with anger today, I don’t want to explode at some asshat who lives states away at me that can’t even hear me.
So I’ll just say that Harmony is adorable and I wish I could own a horse, because I would snap her up in a heart beat.
It’s like good news, bad news. The good news is that this type of criminal behavior is rare enough that there are no laws aimed at keeping the perpetrator in jail forever, only laws that address each offense in a smaller way. The bad new is that there are no laws aimed at keeping this type of perpetrator in jail forever. Citizens of Wisconsin need to push for some kind of law that will keep him and those like him (let’s hope that’s a short list!) in jail forever, because he WILL do it again.
I did some digging on him when his name first came up – and he has killed horses as well as mutilated horses. Sticking his arm up their asses and masturbating is the least of it.
This is is just another reason you don’t ever want to end up in prison. Imagine sharing a cell with this guy. I’ve heard that child molesters get “roughed up” in prison by the other inmates. Wonder what happend to them when word gets out that they got to friendly with fuzzies and furies? This guy just might find out how his victims felt. Talk about Karma!
It may comfort you all to recall that he is in the same state that Jeffery Dahmer was tried, convicted, and met his end in prison in. A cheerful thought.
From the ASexually assaulting pregnant mare
Weyauwega, WI (US)
Incident Date: Monday, Mar 31, 1997
County: Waupaca
Alleged: Sterling Rachwal
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel carried a story on April 21, 1997 that jury selection was scheduled to begin for a rural Weyauwega man accused of sexually assaulting a pregnant mare. A trial for Sterling Rachwal, 33, has been moved to Oconto County because of extensive pretrial publicity and safety concerns. A judge earlier ordered that an anonymous jury be selected to hear the case to prevent animal rights groups from contacting them.
He is charged with burglary, mistreatment of an animal, criminal damage to property and bail jumping in the June 1 incident in the rural Waupaca County town of Mukwa. Rachwal was arrested after a couple, who lived next door to Rachwal’s parents, reported that their pregnant Arabian mare had been sexually assaulted. The horse survived.
At the time of the incident, Rachwal was free on a signature bond stemming from a case in Monroe County, where he was convicted of sexually assaulting three horses at farms in the Tomah area in 1993. Those horses were destroyed because of their injuries. That conviction was overturned by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1995 and Rachwal was awaiting a new trial.
Rachwal has been convicted of mistreating horses, resulting in the deaths of several, numerous times in Waupaca County in 1982, 1984 and 1988.
* My note: What happened to the horses in 1993 is not fit for any person with a soul to read. There was rope and torture. It seems clear if you read the extensive court records on this guy that he has scaled down his attacks to using a latex arm/glove so that he can say he was only masturbating in a stall with the horse, while performing a procedure that veterinarians do all the time. There was no sexual contact and no mutilation so he’s gotten better.
And really at what point are sitting there thinking “I need to get some shoulder length gloves and…….(I dont want to type it out for those who dont want to read it)” Its premeditated and sick and theres no place in functioning or non functioning society for people like him. Walmart sells bullets, no need to debate any kind of castration design or cost.
I suspect if you asked for a donation of bullets, they’d be raining from the sky.
“while performing a procedure that veterinarians do all the time”
The factthat vets palpate horses routinely does NOT mean the procedure is without risk to the horse. I know personally of one mare who was lost due to intestinal perforation that occurred during a normal palpation, and have heard of several others.
In short, he is almost certainly causing pain and could easily cause damage up to and including fatal injury.
“while performing a procedure that veterinarians do all the timeâ€
Awesome. So if a guy breaks into my house at night, ties me down and goes through the motions of a pap smear while masturbating, it’s not really that bad. After all, a gyno does it all the time. Such a hot topic for me, as I was actually sexually assaulted by a gynocologist to begin with. Unless he’s a vet, he has no right to be touching any horse, and as far as I’m aware the horses aren’t even his property.
That’s actually a good comparison – I mean, even if a vet was the one doing this, if he was doing it for sexual gratification, it would be just as wrong. It’s really pretty basic – we give you a lot of freedom in America but you have to confine your sexual activities to those who consent. This means that (a) they are able to legally consent – i.e. not underage, mentally incompetent, not your species – and (b) they consent to the specific activities.
My boss just told me QUITE a news story yesterday. How’s this for scary: a guy is reading Craigslist Casual Encounters and finds an ad from one of those women who says she likes it rough, the key’s under the mat, and she just wants someone to come in and play-rape her. Not so unusual, lots of people have d/s fantasies although this story is going to show why you should act them out with someone you know well, not strangers. The guy corresponds back and forth with her, and finally convinced that she is for real, he carries out the instructions in the ad – and is arrested for rape.
The ad was placed by her ex-husband, who was impersonating her in the e-mails.
So now we have a very interesting legal question. Obviously the ex-husband is guilty, not sure exactly what he’ll be charged with, but he’s a piece of shit that needs to do time for this – hopefully substantial time. How guilty is the guy who actually raped her? I would argue that he was a victim, too – IF the e-mails support a scenario where no matter what, the woman was just pretending to fight. I would not want to see him do any time or have a criminal record if the e-mails clearly show he was duped. And I hope he sues the ex-husband for his emotional damages because they must exist and of course for any loss of reputation or other consequences.
All I can say after reading this is holy crap, if you kick your husband out, change the locks!
OK maybe I read it wrong but I took it as he was sticking himself in one hole and putting his hand in the other hole to masterbate while he was in there??? My brain is just trying to wrap itself around why you would want to do anything even close to this so bear with me. I cant even imagine the amount of bruising and tearing that would be caused by an amateurs hands let alone some one who is preoccupied with sexual gratification and fumbling with “other things” on top of a non sedated non cooperative horse, pony, goat, dog, cow, or whatever his beast of choice may be that night. It sounds like he may need a few nights alone with a very sick and disturbed man just like himself…..Maybe they could take bets to raise money for the families of the animals hurt by both men or some thing. I’m always for some sort of retribution of some sort.
I just dont know, but if our society keeps sweeping this kind of behavior under the rug its just going to get worst.
Yeah, that would be why the vet SEDATES the horse before sticking their arm up there… so that the horse is less prone to be injured, stays still, and isn’t experienceing pain and distress.
That would be like a human getting a colonoscopy without sedation… it just isn’t done. Sick.
I simply cannot imagine a noraml, healthy horse allowing anyone to do that. He has to be doing something evil to restrain them so that whatever the restraint is, is more unpleasant than the arm-up-the-rear… or else they would struggle.
Saw his girlfriend at the court hearing, and she’s not exactly high society material, and seems to have plenty of issues of her own. You can see her interviewed on the channel 11 news report online. Plus…either she carries her excess weight in a very odd place, or she’s pregnant. And that is truly scary, if it’s true.
This guy is definitely a few fries short of a Happy Meal….but he is not stupid, either. He knows how to manipulate and work the system and believes he’s smarter than pretty much everybody around him (narcissistic anti-social personality). I’m hoping that now, with the media involved, the word will get out when he’s released next time. And believe me, we’ll be keeping our eyes open here and will spread the word. Even the case workers said in court that there is no help available for him, outside of being institutionalized. He has past offenses in Waupaca, Monroe, and Fondulac counties. He has been doing this for well over 25 years, and *always* re-offends when released. Myself, I’m glad I’ve got a big, brown “Chesapeake Bay security system”.
I think the sad part is that there is not nearly enough money spent researching brain chemistry and mental illnesses because of the stigma attached to each. General studies have been conducted that indicate sexual identity – opposite gender, same gender, young children, rubber gloves, horses, feet, sadism, masochism is hardwired at a very early age and ultimately unchangeable. This research often directly conflicts with better funded, more biased research, for example, findings by religious researching groups studying homosexuality.
This same stigma that prevents people from really understanding brain chemistry and mental illness limits the availability of what treatment there is. It is difficult enough for a person suffering from postpartum depression to get the help they need, let alone a pervert with no compunctions. It is difficult enough to get help for someone whose behaviour makes them a danger to other people, let alone someone who hurts animals. In a perfect world there would be treatment for perverts (and people who can only love perverts!) but I’m not holding my breath.
I hope everyone takes every step they can to protect themselves, but until social perceptions change, I don’t foresee this resolving itself anytime soon, because even when we raise much needed awareness about dangerous perverts like the offender above, we spread hate, and worse yet, the stigma that continues the circle, that we do not need to spend money/resources on these offenders because they do not deserve to live. Maybe they don’t. But everyone deserves a better protection plan, right?
Well, I think there is a huge difference between postpartum depression and what this guy did, although I understand that the former can get to the point where you drown the kids in the bathtub and everybody pretty much loses sympathy for you at that point. Still, I have a hard time seeing where the line should be drawn between personal responsibility and mental illness. As another poster noted, there are people with inappropriate urges who DO NOT ACT UPON THEM. And I’m sure there are many, MANY mothers here who had a moment or two or more when they just wanted the baby to be QUIET but DIDN’T drown it in the bathtub.
Quite frankly, I don’t buy that everything’s a mental illness when you can line up two people with the same set of urges and one of them simply doesn’t act upon those urges, and the other does. If lack of self control is a mental illness, then every woman on earth who has snatched the Twinkies off the shelf when she KNEW her butt didn’t need them is mentally ill.
Or, as Bill Maher said most appropriately about Tiger Woods:
http://www.alternet.org/story/145842/bill_maher:_stop_saying_sex_addiction_like_it%27s_a_bad_thing/
I suppose the huge difference was kind of the point – a minor mental illness that rarely vs a *much* larger mental problem. . . I don’t know if I can convince you that being sexually attracted to animals is a mental illness whether or not the person acts on such urges. . .
I can share you a personal experience with mental illness. . . with my mother. Who has chronic depression.
It never stopped her from anything I would consider important to being a good person. She was socially responsible, volunteered in the community, and just about the best mother I could imagine. We were never babysat by the television, she worked hard to teach us right from wrong, and spend vast amounts of quality time with us. She kept her house clean, and prepared a “family supper” everyday. She was a homemaker and a model citizen for twenty years. She was MISERABLE. She hated every moment of it. She did it anyway. She wasn’t sick, you can’t be sick just because you don’t like housework, right?
She had a psychotic break. She almost killed herself.
Mental illness should be studied, but shouldn’t they be doing it at the MENTAL INSTITUTES he’s been in and out of? That’s what those places are for.
Also, you can’t be cured of or even start to rehabilitate if you don’t want to. I’m a cutter. It’s an addiction, it’s linked to mental illness. People threatened to have me institutionalized, so I changed where I was cutting. People threatened when they found the new cuts, so I found new and scar free forms of getting hurt, like taking a shower hot enough that half an hour later my skin was still read, hurting myself where hair covered, biting the insides of my cheeks until I have permanent scars, and so many other things. I knew I had a problem. Knowing you have a problem isn’t that hard. But frankly, I didn’t want to get better. Cutting/Self Injury was how I dealt with things. Hubby’s mad? Just a half inch wound that’s just shallow enough to avoid stitches, and suddenly I don’t mind that he was angry and we make up. Got fired? That’s okay, it means I have an hour to take a bath that’s going to burn me and an hour to get back to my normal color. Passed out because the water was too hot? That’s okay, because now I have bruises I can make worse and I have an excuse for the bruise. Bring it on world! It took me a long time to get to a point where I wanted to be better. And then I had to work at it.
Someone above mentioned that if you want to get better, you don’t tempt yourself. I now take timed showers, and I don’t shower if I’m upset. All knives, razorblades, scissors, etc have been put aside by Hubby. I try to avoid the things that I hurt myself with. This man is walking up to temptation. He doesn’t want to be fixed. And if he does, he doesn’t want it enough yet. It’s like an alcoholic or druggie – they have to hit rock bottom and commit themself to change.
While it’s noble to want more research into mental illnesses, and to treat people farily, who is doing that for the horses? Think of all the horses out there that have bad pasts already. Can you imagine if he’s done this to them? Some quivering fearful mare that’s been abused and literally broken starts to trust people again. Then she’s tied up hard and hurt by a person. What happens next? A little girl’s fallen in love with her horse, only to come out and find it dying. Mom and dad can’t replace it, and what are they suppossed to tell their daughter? Sorry honey, some guy with a mental illness decided your dear little horse needed a broom handle violently put places because he was horny and really needed to get off. If people are a danger, and we don’t know why, then it is especially important they be put somewhere away from society.
Good for you. Yes, cutting and other self-harm is absolutely an addiction! Having been there, I can only say keep on trying – I know how scary it is to try and let go and heal, but there really is a much better life waiting for you afterward, even if you can’t see it yet.
I’m not arguing that he needs to be in a mental institution and stay there. I am saying I wish we as a society spent more money on this so this was actually a possibility. I wish we spent more money on researching mental illness so that there were better solutions than “willpower” for resisting inappropriate urges/emotions/feelings due to mental illness. More opportunities for people to get into treatment that could conceivably help them resist.
I’m not advocating fair treatment of the pervert before fair treatment of the horse. I am advocating a change in bias against mental illness so that maybe we could have both.
Most people with mental illnesses are unlike Stewart; they have a fair bit of restraint and willpower and generally try to make themselves healthier/more normal and avoid temptation. The fact is that many of them fail. We don’t have ANY effective treatments for mental illnesses right now. We have medications that are somewhat effective with minor side effects, procedures that can lead to some improvement, therapy that can somewhat help and places for sufficiently crazy people with sufficient wealth to be institutionalized.
And when people with mental illnesses fail, we treat them like Stewart. We tell them they deserved it, that many people with similar backgrounds/histories manage to resist, and that if they just got off their lazy asses they’d get over it. We tell them there is no excuse for their behavior, and they deserve to rot in hell/die a terrible death. We tell people with depression to stop being so damn sad all the time, people with agoraphobia to get out of the damn house, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder to damn well stop thinking about it, cutters to stop being so damn emo and anorexics to eat some damn thing. Even worse we point out other people with mental illnesses who have overcome them, and ask them why they can’t be like that – despite most functioning people with a mental illness will fail, recover and fail again, despite the fact they look functioning at a particular time.
So yeah, maybe hate Stewart and all the things that he’s done, but he’s a pretty good symptom of a much larger disease.
What a sicko! Ugh…. I can’t believe he’s dating, some women have no taste at all!
And I’ve seen several men with that idiot mustache lately–WTF?
This reminds me of a very abused mare my friends bought years ago. The people selling her had her inside a tiny dog run with no shelter, and the kids told me they had bought her out of pity from “a man who was mean to her”, and “locked her in a barn and did bad things to her” when the parents weren’t in earshot. He had been a neighbor and had to leave the area quickly due to “legal issues”.
The poor mare had ridges of scars on her hindquarters and flanks, but no scars on her skin. They were made from the INSIDE. The vet palpated her and was horrified at the scarred mess she was inside. It was like the monster had re-enacted the movie Cybil with the poor horse. Her back was screwed up to, the vet thought from someone taking something like a sledgehammer to her spine. She could only canter on one lead. This mare had serious fear issues, and broke out in a dripping sweat everytime she was put in a stall. She’d hurt herself trying to get out, or would paw by the door till she wore her hooves literally bloody. I didn’t blame her, she’d probably been tortured for years.
Anyway, this dude is close enough to where we found that mare that I wonder if he was the one that hurt her, but I don’t want to find out anymore about him to investigate. I do hope the next horse he tries to hurt takes off his junk with a well-aimed hoof, and then caves in his head.
Can’t add anything to what other have said… Don’t think I’ve ever seen so many ewwwwww comments ever!
However, isn’t it kinda funny that all of us looked at that photo and said “pervert”. Like we didn’t even have to hear the story and we knew that this guy was going to be crazy and/or dangerous. Just on the basis of his looks. The moustache, the hair style, the goatee… Is there any chance that there is a totally decent guy out there that looks like this? It doesn’t seem right to look at that photo and make a stereotype assumption. But I’m wondering if anyone on this forum knows a guy who looks like that and is a good guy…
First up, this sick piece of excrement needs a lobotomy done on him, the old fashioned way ( a knitting needle inserted thru the nasal cavity, and wiggle it around till his brain is mush,) second, geld the SOB, without benefit of any anesthesia. I think all will concur that he already qualifys as RANK. He reminds me of that other sick fuck in Oregon who finally got his just reward after having sex with a stallion. He died of a ruptured bowel, slowly and very painfully…..
That was in Washington, but I agree, that was a very fair outcome!
OMG OMG OMG I went to his facebook page! Im furious! He has 19 friends now. Go to his Wall and read his comments. I swear if I lived near him, id be in prison.
“got to go to court tomorrow. you should be able to make love to whatever you want…:(” ~~~~~FYI:its not making love if you have to tie to to a tree with a chain!!!
“ill drop my pants you’ll learn as you blow. sometimes you spit. sometimes you swallow. dont worry about what you dont know. ill drop my pants youll learn as you blow” ~~~~~ SOUNDS like he is moving on to people IMO
“can i ride your horse???” WTF!!! This does not sound like someone who is rehabbed. More like someone who is a cocky bastard and proud of what he has done….and thinks its funny to. Im soo hoping a horse gets ahold of him.
“Sterling became a fan of Man on the horse.” REALLY….sounds like he is taking this totally seriously.
“just got back from the barn” wow, he must be having some fun and realizes that people are checking his page. I hope his clinician in the discharge planning team sees this and realizes what has been unleashed.
Also he has a paint horse pic up on his wall to…but the link to his photos has been disabled. Hopefully Facebook with remove this guy asap.
Im just sick sick sick at this!
OK, just checked out his profile on Face book, he actually has a pic of a horse standing (mounting) over the top of him,with the horse’s front legs over his shoulders………..Methinks Fondulac should put together a good old lynching party, and fast!!!!
Is this a new page? I’m looking at the one linked at the top of today’s entry and he has 8 friends – you have to friend him to see anything else. His profile pic is the one with the dog.
This one ( http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=search&id=100000788477324 ) appears to be teenagers screwing around. The one Fugly posted looks like his real profile.
I do have to say I did have a sigh of relief when I read on the Midwest Horse welfare board that he got another 5 years in the mental instituition. I actually am working on getting better aim with guns and would like to take up archery. Just incase there are some predators on my land trying to kill or moleste my horse or other animals. I would also like to know why he has a picture on facebook with a dog!?! Like he doesnt do it to other animals! What the heck! And notice the 2 things he plays. Ya very disgusting! I hope to go to the next time he appeals as I think the more people that show up for the horses the more the judge cant say let him go free.
I just checked his Facebook profile again. If you click on his profile picture, (the one with the dog,) it brings up another page of 4 horse pics, including the one I mentioned in my earlier post. If you click on the Man of the Horse link on his page, it brings up 137 friends, no telling how many sicko’s on that one.
Well, he’s blocked everything now. Apparently he reads Fugly.
Too bad, I was hoping to see the pics he’d uploaded. But his profile pic hasn’t changed.
Heads up: click on his profile pic, it takes you to another page, click on his profile pic AGAIN, and the pictures come up.
Well… Thank you, fugs- for my heebee geebee moment of the day AND for the complete lack of interest in food.
I know. Great diet plan, this entry. I know I only had coffee for breakfast!
Pet-Abuse.com/cases/860/WI/US/
Case Snapshot
Case ID: 860
Classification: Bestiality
Animal: horse
More cases in Waupaca County, WI
Sexually assaulting pregnant mare
Weyauwega, WI (US)
Incident Date: Monday, Mar 31, 1997
County: Waupaca
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Sterling Rachwal
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel carried a story on April 21, 1997 that jury selection was scheduled to begin for a rural Weyauwega man accused of sexually assaulting a pregnant mare. A trial for Sterling Rachwal, 33, has been moved to Oconto County because of extensive pretrial publicity and safety concerns. A judge earlier ordered that an anonymous jury be selected to hear the case to prevent animal rights groups from contacting them.
He is charged with burglary, mistreatment of an animal, criminal damage to property and bail jumping in the June 1 incident in the rural Waupaca County town of Mukwa. Rachwal was arrested after a couple, who lived next door to Rachwal’s parents, reported that their pregnant Arabian mare had been sexually assaulted. The horse survived the attack.
At the time of the incident, Rachwal was free on a signature bond stemming from a case in Monroe County, where he was convicted of sexually assaulting three horses at farms in the Tomah area in 1993. Those horses were destroyed because of their injuries. That conviction was overturned by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1995 and Rachwal was awaiting a new trial.
Rachwal has been convicted of mistreating horses, resulting in the deaths of several, numerous times in Waupaca County in 1982, 1984 and 1988.
That’s not him in the pic with the horse on a guy’s shoulders. I’m guessing he’s pulling pics off of other sites and using them to yank people’s chain.
I’m guessing he’s got two different facebook pages….they both come up, but the original is missing quite a bit of what was originally there. He is so creepy and weird. I did print off a screenshot of the one with all the horse related stuff on it, and will send it along to the proper authorities (just in case it gets removed).
Likely one of those pages is actually by a troll. There’s a lot of people on the internet who think stuff like this is funny, and watching people get upset about it is funnier.
I’ve been coming to this site now for the past year and until recently never posted. I have followed all the stories that are put up, clicked on the links to the individual stories. This site brings me to tears so often. I have sent money to different causes and have volunteered rehabbing horses bought at the new holland auction here on the east coast.
i cannot fathom how so many people can be so cruel to animals and children. its disgusting.
i personally have 2 cats who were abandoned in an empty apartment in my complex for over a month before they were discovered. The tenants just left them with a 50lb. bag of cat food ripped open in the kitchen and dirty water in the sink. I took “magic” and “stella” in temporarily 2 years ago until i could find them a home. ha ha
I also adopted a pony a few years ago that was badly beaten because she didnt know how to lead. The person who had her was found beating her in the face up against the side of the barn because she wouldnt lead. She was a baby directly off a ranch and had never been handled!
The owners of the farm bought her off the man to get her away from him and offered her to me for adoption.
I have before and after photos of her… i am waiting for the next “pony show-off day” here to post them. liz
EVERY day is pony show off day!
Just post the direct links and I’ll add the code, otherwise it doesn’t work. WE LOVE PONIES!
Hehehe, Facebook. A friend talked me into playing FarmVille… so much fun…! But you have to have facebook to use it and I really didn’t want Facebook. So what did I do? Put in a bunch of information that is a complete load of tosh. My facebook name is Carl Hernandez and I was born in 1952! *waves* I work for the Best Damn Company EVAH and live in Armpit. Friend me, I dare ya.
I tried to find you to friend you on my “game” account but wasn’t sure which one was you, lol.
This is the same guy that was caught in western Wisconsin in the late 80′s early 90′s. I know because I wrote the news stories. These people never change. Just like the hoarders, animal abusers/killers do it all their useless lives. They don’t just do it to animals either. A POS from central Wisconsin convicted of animal abuse on April 30, 2008 by the name of DARLENE RENO was well known for the abuse she inflicted on her children all of their lives. No one ever did a thing about it. The really strange thing is they enable the nasty bitch and keep animals for her now, more then 40 horses, even though the court sentenced her to not own or be near animals. I’ll never understand it. Look her up on Petabuse.com
I know – he’s done it for 20 years, like I said – he is NOT going to change! Thank you for writing about him, though. Who knows how many animals you helped to keep safe by doing so.
I’ll check out Darlene. She sounds like she needs to be featured. Is there an actual court order? Then who is not enforcing it? Let’s get on this.
When Fugly warns that the link leads to distressing material, I take her word for it and don’t click on them. However I have learnt enough through the posts to feel truly ill. I am going to go for a walk, even though it is now 9.56 at night. It’s the only way that I’m going to feel better. Sex and sadism to animals. That bends my brain. There is something seriously wrong with that man and anoyone who supports him.
The mare for adoptions is seriously cute.
I remember hearing about this guy back in the 80′s. Some of my friends were friends with people whose horses he abused, they ultimately died from the damage he did to them.
He won’t change. He may have realized that what he’s doing is thought of as wrong by society, and he may no longer wish to participate in such acts because he doesn’t want the consequences associated with being caught, but fundamentally he will not change, he is hardwired to have these urges and having acted upon them in the past he will be nearly incapable of refraining in the future. My abnormal psyche prof worked with pedophiles for many years before he began teaching and he said that people with such personality disorders (pedophiles, zoophiles, etc) are incapable of being rehabilitated because they will always believe, on some level, that their urges are not wrong. Castration, chemical or otherwise, is not a viable solution because the urges are initiated from the brain and they will just find a different way to accomplish their goal.
Our prof also baldly stated that in his opinion that the death penalty for ‘philes would be the best solution because they cannot be rehabilitated and they recidivism rate is close to 100%. The other solution he offered was creating a ‘phile island somewhere and just dumping them off and leaving them.
Honestly, I can’t say I disagree with him, although I’m against wasting the real estate.
I found it interesting that somebody mentioned post-partum depression in reference to mental illness and more research to ‘cure’ the mentally ill. I must agree. Im not sure if anybody here heard of the case of a Texas single mom who killed her 6 week old baby and mutilated him horribly. People called out for death penalty and called her vile names BUT nobody realises that mental ilness is not so easily defined. She had an illness which was a severe case of post-partum depression called post-partum dementia. You cannot justifiably blame her for this terrible crime, she was mis-diagnosed, not treated and broke down-her family and the system failed to act before it was too late (there were reported signs that she might snap). This led to a terrible tragedy. I’m sickened by this man’s actions and he does deserve a life-incarceration in a mental facility But his family and ‘friends’ who knew are to blame as well. Its up to the legal system (you’re lucky you have a more dependable one in the US than we do in South Africa) to keep him locked up and away from temptation. Its awful, but we cannot judge these people by the same merits we judge ‘sane’ people. This kind of stuff happens here as well. People get away with misdemeanour charges and keep on doing it. In South Africa, some of the black cultures believe that you can cure yourself of the AIDS virus by sleeping with a virgin. That is anything from a baby, child or an animal…And these people are clinically ‘sane’…So many atrocities commited against the ones who cannot speak up. It depresses the living hell out of me.
This just infuriates me. I can’t even begin to comprehend how you can say that a mother who kills and mutilates her chilled cannot be justifiably blamed for the crime! Hell yes she can and should be. In fact, she should be instantly put to death for something so terrible. I don’t care if she was “mentally ill†or not! THAT’S NOT AN EXCUSE!!! AND NOBODY ELSE IS TO BLAME FOR THAT CRAZY BITCH’S ACTIONS BUT HER!!!!!!!!
Not to mention – anybody who would do such a thing is obviously mental – sane people do not murder and abuse / torture. I’m a very firm believer in an eye for an eye. I think anyone who commits cold blooded murder or abuse to people or animals and it can be proven 100% then that person should be put to death. They are sick and twisted. There is no benefit in locking up a rapist, child molester, serial killer, etc…they should be killed – again – only if there’s no doubt at all that the person accused is the actual perpetrator.
When you’ve been seriously mentally ill and still managed to restrain yourself (read: act sane), then I’ll listen to your rants that it shouldn’t be treated differently in the eyes of the law.
IF this woman was truly non-homicidal before her pregnancy and IF she was fully restored to sanity afterward (and those are very big ifs), yes, I have sympathy for her. Knowing that she killed her own baby is probably punishment enough. She does bear a huge responsibility to make sure she’s never in that situation again (I’d favor sterilization and adopting only older children, if any) and the State needs to make sure that’s being done, but no, I don’t think she needs to be charged with murder.
The people around her do bear some responsibility – insanity or not, they apparently saw a child in danger, and turned a blind eye. It doesn’t make the mom less culpable, it just means they ALL screwed up. Not just her.
Just my $.02 Yes, the insanity defense is abused very, very often. But it irritates me when people want to scrap it all together, as if only morally deficient people will commit crimes when insane.
The post-partum thing is interesting. I’ve read quite a bit about the Andrea Yates case. She started out a pretty normal person, but this husband of hers sucked her into that crazy little world of super-fundie religion, where she no longer had ANY rights. She couldn’t talk back. She had no money, no freedom, no control over her own life at all. He made her life for extended periods in a bus with five kids. He knew she was having psychiatric issues and she was actually on and off of serious meds (like Haldol) but he STILL insisted they have more children, and left her home alone to care for them.
I don’t know that she was insane to start with or that it was specifically post-partum depression. I think she was subjected to a combination of factors that would make the average woman snap, and she snapped.
Is she guilty? Yeah. But you do kind of feel like the law should provide some punishment for him, too.
Yeah, I wish there were a way to nail the Dad in cases like that as well. I’ve heard that in some areas, they don’t do ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ – rather, the verdict comes down as ‘guilty but insane’, and it’s sentenced as the judge deems appropriate. That allows for flexibility in treating the person, confining them as necessary, and creates a permanent criminal record so that society can keep tabs on them. I like that setup.
Unfortunately it’s never quite as clear cut as my hypothetical situation in the posts above, insanity is never simple. Although post-partum depression seems to offer better chances than most for someone to be reliably sane after treatment – which makes dealing with moms that killed their children incredibly tricky, since it’s such a hideous crime, but there’s better than average chances that they truly were insane then, and truly aren’t insane now.
What a mess.
AND…What the hell is Facebook doing to deal with the questionable content which kids can see. They should remove him ASAP
“We do not have the therapy or treatment in the community that would assure him not re-offending.”
Sure you do. Want me to hand pick some broodmares to send up to Wisconsin? I know of at least three or four who required multiple people holding them while IN a chute, just to get their ultrasounds done, or get them artificially inseminated.
Let’s just plant several of those around in the local pastures, and let nature (Or un-nature?) take its course. A couple of solidly shod horse hooves in the right location, and he will no longer offend.
This sick evil demon bastard makes my head spin. He belongs in hell.
Is it me or does the moustache scream “evil villian” who ties up women to railroad tracks. What cartoon did I see him on…Rocky & Bullwinkle?
I know. Everybody’s screaming about stereotyping but, you know, it’s like, don’t wear a marijuana leaf t-shirt to a job interview and expect to get hired, either. People DO judge you on your appearance whether you like it or not and it’s good to be aware of the message you are sending.
Sent to me by a reader – another similar case in California, and some comments on the legalities here:
Paul Millhouse, 49, of Spring Valley, California, on May 13 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor lewd conduct, as charges of sexual assault and trespassing were dropped. On June 10, municipal court judge Larrie Brainard barred Millhouse from entering the city of Lakeside, where San Diego Zoo spokesperson Joan Embery first reported Millhouse for allegedly sexually assaulting horses more than a decade ago. Millhouse was charged, however, only after two private detectives hired by one of Embery’s neighbors videotaped him in the act of disrobing and fondling a horse, then restrained him at the scene until police came. Brainard also ordered Millhouse to stay 200 yards from any livestock, to pay $300 in fines and restitution, and to seek counseling.
Objected defense attorney Sujung Kim, “He does not hurt the horses. We think it’s unreasonable that the court ask him to stay away from all animals.â€
The difficulty of prosecuting alleged sexual assaults on horses was highlighted last year when Carol Jackson, of Eagleville, Tennessee, reported witnessing her neighbor Earl Graves, 68, in the act of having sexual intercourse with a miniature mare in his carport. Finding no law against bestiality in Tennessee, sheriff’s deputies charged Graves with indecent exposure. The case is apparently still pending.
Even harder than prosecuting alleged offenders is catching them. Police in southern England, the Washington D.C. area, and Germany have been baffled for more than 15 years by serial sexual mutilations of mares, which along with similar unsolved assaults in Tupelo, Mississippi, and near Boston, Massachusetts, may be mostly the work of one individual. Five such attacks in three weeks, all in southern England, followed the May ITV broadcast of a series, Touching Evil, which featured the investigation. Over the years, at least 27 men in England and three in Germany have been questioned, and in one German case a man confessed to nine such assaults, reportedly driven by hatred of women, but a resident of Garmissen, Germany, suspected of sexually attacking mares with a stiletto and a curved saber, may have escaped prosecution because the key evidence, a marked map, was apparently lost when his abandoned car was crushed for scrap.
The assaults, progressively more frequent and vicious, occurred mainly in England, 1981-1993, but included similar attacks in Virginia in 1990-1991, clustered around major holidays, and in Maryland between August 26 and October 5, 1993. Parallel attacks began in northern Germany in 1992, coinciding with escalated activity in Hampshire, England, a long ferry ride away. Between then and mid-1996, more than 300 German horses were attacked, 10 times as many as in England; 89 were fatally injured. Then came a nine-month lull.
“You have people who rape a woman and then turn against her for what they’ve done,†Scotland Yard detective chief inspector Des Thomas speculated in 1993. “We may have a person who has a sexual attraction to a horse, who then feels disgusted with himself.â€
Sadistic jerks are a dime a dozen these days: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/owner-of-beaten-killed-baby-alpaca-who-would-do-something-like-this-571730.html
Someone emailed me that and I about puked. I could happily strangle those boys myself.
SICK!
My fiance has a name for moustaches clike that…molestache.
Its sad that humans are the only thing capable of committing such acts as this. I can somewhat understand a rapist; they’re proving they have power…but this?
As for the Facebook thing; it bothers me when I get these people I’ve never seen to request me as their friend. I only accept friend requests from people I know.
Just figured out who he looks like. Ever After- the eevil trader dude who gave the wicked stepmother all the furniture back and took Drew Barrymore in payment, and then she almost knifed him, and walked out of his ghetto castle to find Pawn Boy Douche Prince coming in to ‘rescue’ her.
Krysten, you can put your caps lock on all you like and hate the woman who killed her child but it does not change the fact that she was deemed mentally unstable and was allowed to be alone and unsupervised with her baby. I’m not sure you know of anyone who suffered post partum depression or dementia but If you dont you have very little right to condemn something which you cannot understand. A death of a child, to me is the most tragic of all…nothing more awful exists on this planet for sure BUT you have to have a support system when you are physically ill-what about mental illness? Is so easy to blame someone when you havent walked a mile in their shoes. Not talking crazy horse-abuser here but a sick woman with auditory and visual halucinations who couldnt tell reality from nightmare. This man should be locked up permanently or with restricted access and treated, not lynched…Hell are we living in Mad Max world here?