A 44-year-old Greek-Australian man as reported in Daily Mail – Australia, while the masthead names the perpetrator Neos Kosmos does not, as to avoid further embarrassment to his family.
The man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his involvement in a series of bestiality and break-in offences at St Marys High School in Sydney’s west.
The court heard that the man was under the influence of methamphetamines and had been awake for five days when he engaged in sexual activities with a male sheep inside the school’s shed in May 2022.
Teaching staff at the school had become suspicious of someone breaking into their milking shed after hours, which led them to review security camera footage.
The footage captured the man herding two goats into a gated area on May 6, and a week later, he was recorded walking around the same shed naked from the waist down.
The authorities eventually caught him engaging in sexual activity with a male sheep while a female goat was found in a state of shock nearby.
During his trial at Penrith District Court, the defendant pleaded guilty to damaging property, bestiality, possessing bestiality material, break and enter, and possessing an unauthorised firearm. The court was also shown content related to bestiality on his phone, alongside a picture of him holding a pump-action shotgun without the required permits.
His defence lawyer argued that his client’s methamphetamine use, combined with his sexual deviance and paraphilic disorder of attraction toward animals, influenced his actions.
He claimed that the culprit admitted to his psychiatrist that he was only attracted to animals while under the influence of drugs because it increased his sex drive. The court was informed that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia but had stopped taking his prescribed medication before the incidents.
Ultimately, the judge, Sophia Beckett, considered the unique nature of the crimes and the lack of relevant case law in determining an appropriate sentence. While the offender’s mental health condition was not considered a causal factor in his offending, the court acknowledged that his substance abuse and paraphilic disorder played significant roles.
Considering the evidence and arguments presented during the trial, the offender was sentenced to three and a half years behind bars for the offences he committed at St Marys High School.
