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“Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

“Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

“We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

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[-] Gaslov@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

If a woman who was forced into it by a gang wants to join the FBI to take these people down to keep other girls and women from having the same fate, why would you deny her?

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Because that's a strawman argument & doesn't happen in reality.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago

Under the law, we do not criminalize or hold people to actions taken under duress. You can keep the policy and just qualify the action to having been done willfully. You don't need to allow abusers in to open the door for victims.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

And an abuse victim shouldn’t have ever been charged with it either.

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