…says animals are convenient

Things got lively at the Vreed-en-Hoop courthouse last week when a man who seems to have a natural attraction for animals made his appearance before Principal Magistrate Oscar Parvatan.

Seeram Krishna of Number Two Canal, West Bank Demerara, was caught in a most compromising position with a goat owned by Nizam Shaw.

Seeram caught in a most compromising position with a goat 

The man and goat were on the Conservancy Dam, perhaps because Krishna believed that he would be safe from prying eyes. He was wrong.

In court, Krishna pleaded guilty to the charge of bestiality.

When asked for an explanation of his unnatural act and certainly anti-social behaviour, the man remained silent, staring at the magistrate as though he wanted to explain but that there were too many people around.

However, his action was not allowed to remain a secret. He said that until recently he was sharing a relationship with a married woman, but she upped and left him for reasons he refused to disclose.

“Weren't there other girls whom you could have approached?” asked the Magistrate.

Krishna said that all his life women hurt him terribly and he was happy to keep away from them.

“So why a goat?”

“Sir, to be honest, de goat don't holler and dem convenient.”

Krishna is to come up for sentencing later this week.

Meanwhile, Shaw was hesitant about having the animal destroyed. Routinely, the authorities would order that an animal preyed on by a man, be destroyed for fear of transmitting diseases.

Monday - June 27, 2005