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Sexually Abused Dog Killed, Abuser Couple Sentenced

Kim Baalbergen & Steven Baker, sexually abused a dog

Note these faces well, they are the faces the two people so sick and sexually depraved that it is beyond the minds of rational people to even begin to understand how they could do what they did!

There no way to account for the sick, depraved workings of some people’s minds.  This is one of those case where all you can say is, “Oh my God!”  A Klamath Falls, OR couple, Steven Baker, 54, and Kim Baalbergen, 50, have pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of an animal, unbelievably only a misdemeanor.

The couple was sentenced to 60 days in jail, two years probation in which they are not allowed to own any animals and 40 hours of community service under the terms of the plea agreement reached in December for the three misdemeanor counts. That’s a pretty lenient sentence no matter how you look at it especially since the dog, a German Shepherd named Max, lost his life. And he didn’t even do anything besides what he was trained to do, regardless how sick and perverted it was.

Seems the couple had a friend who runs a sex website including bestiality and told them that they could make a lot of money and have fun too. Fun, wow! So Baalbergen performed oral sex on the dog and received oral, vaginal and anal sex, and Baker received anal sex. They also videotaped their depravities and sold them to a company in Amsterdam for $12K

The prosecutor, Cole Chase, said it is the first time anyone has actually been fully prosecuted under the state’s animal abuse law which has only been on the books for a couple of years now.

Max, the shepherd, had to be euthanized.

“Because of the way it was taught to interact with people, it couldn’t be placed in another home,” Chase said.

There are just no words.  But one does have to be concerned where their attentions may turn when they are out of jail to get their jollies since they can’t have pets??  Scary thought!

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27 comments to Sexually Abused Dog Killed, Abuser Couple Sentenced

  • Scarlet K. Long, R.N

    I do NOT want to offend ANYONE with my comment here; in advance, I offer my "I'm sorry," just in case:

    I want these two DEAD, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Admin

      No offense taken here Scarlet, as a matter of fact I am pretty much on the same page with you regarding this scum of the earth. They don’t deserve to draw breath and walk this earth.

      Deanna

  • Admin

    No offense taken here Scarlet, as a matter of fact I am pretty much on the same page with you regarding this scum of the earth. They don't deserve to draw breath and walk this earth.

    Deanna

  • wpsflyboy

    Killing's too good for them. LIVING can be much harder. Just few tools and about an hour with each one and they won't be capable of hurting anyone else.

  • Nancy Vernand

    Please write this airhead judge as I have and ask him what kind of stupid sentence was that he imposed on two people that should be euthanized themselves as they are worthless pieces of garbage and insane to be walking our streets. Tell him to get real or get off the bench now and allow a judge with some sort of knowledge regasding animal cruelty to impose sentencings as this dog suffered horribly by these demented people. These kinds of judges will not stop abuse at all. Thanks, Nancy

  • Marcy Becker

    Could be the Judge was involved! You never know! Sick!

    Barbaric and disgusting!

    Im gonna throw up!

  • dru

    NASTY BASTARDS!!!!!

  • jowan

    When Iread this story, I had to run to vomit. There is nothing more revolting than this. What on earth are these scum bags still around??? Know the dog is gone, I not surprise if I hear they will look for children. I spit in the faces of those two horrible demented rotten innards of humans evil no good to be called humans.

  • Nancy

    There are no words to describe beastiality and those who partake in it. They all need to be "euthanized", not the poor animals.

  • Jessie B

    In the Bible, beastiality is said to be a sin of the worst kind. They will be taken care of in the end. I say it again……human guinea pigs. Quit making our precious animals suffer these horrible tests, and put these scum bag, useless, disgusting pieces of trash in the cages. I would love to participate in testing if this were the case. What fun that would be. To hear these POS's screaming in constant pain…………YEA!

  • Paul

    It would be fitting if these two met some die hard animal lovers in their 60 days in jail and the animal sympathizers "took medieval on their asses". A fitting punishment, don't you agree? People who do things like this are just scraping the bottom of the gene pool. I feel for that poor little dog, what a world we live in, huh?
    Hold your babies (and pets) close, this kind of evil can live next door to anyone, you never know….

  • roseanna

    yes that is the scary part…anyone you sit next to in a public place…or are introduced to…or moves in next door could be so depraved…..and those people are in relationships, raising children and animals….know the laws and speak up to insure that the authorities uphold those laws… as they are required to….
    this plea bargaining nonsense has to stop too…….

  • Sheri

    There is so much animal abuse going on everywhere and it needs to be dealt with! harsh sentences need to be upheld. People who abuse an animal have no regard for life. That could mean human life also. It is very scary, as I see it a lot here in Ga. the laws are not upheld. People here get "disposable" animals. If their dog dies, for whatever reason, usually neglect, they just get another. Disgusting! These two people are unworthy of anything. They will get their "due" when they are judged at the throne of the Lord!!

    • Admin

      Sheri, though I know all these abusers will get their "due" come Judgment Day, I would so love to see some serious judgment meted out to all of them now. I've always been a relatively pacifistic type person but slime like this really brings out the worst in me.

      D.

  • Morgan

    I don't know about a "Judgement" day, I don't believe that there is a God but, I know someone will find out what these two did and their time in jail will be very unpleasant. As a matter of fact I am going to make sure that their cell mates know about their past. Wish me luck…..

  • dAlmAtiAn

    Sorry to say this guys, as much as i love my dogs, i have to say i'd rather they did with thier own dog then thier neighbours children.

    All be it tho… that said, I am an open minded guy who looks o n all sides to the best of my own limitations.. and have to also add i believe the state should chop off one of thier hands each. Life long bann for keeping pets. sexual abuse register alongside the sick peadophiles. Make them publicy known to face the humiliation.

    I know what i just said will attract lots of bad comments. I got broad shoulders. And thde right to voice my opinion. :)

    dAlmAtiAn

  • Bill

    are you all kidding? forget your social customs and programmed overreactions here and look at what actually happened: a male dog got to satisfy his natural urges in many ways that i'm sure were very pleasing for him while getting a status elevated to that of humans, while some desperate people humiliated themselves for some money consensually. the dog was killed only because of the people who enforced the illegality of this (i.e., those of the same views as all of you on this thread so far!) had this situation been left alone, an animal would have continued to enjoy its pleasurable non-abusive experiences while some desperate people would have kept making money. no one is making you zealots watch the porn, so why impose your opinions on others? that seems like the real abuse.

    • You, uh, upset because you can't buy their videos anymore?

      • Shaku

        Yeah…. cause there isn't a million bazillion other videos out there.

        I love how people with the least amount experience with sex, seem to be the ones who also believe they are the best to tell you the moralities of it.

        It scares me to see so many people blindly flocking in together, flocking to get their daily allotted fix of hate they don't stop to see the spectrum of things.

        All I know, is of the zoo's I've met, they take far better care of their dogs in terms of walking, nutrition, healthcare and overall care.

        The way you guys seem to make it out….. is like saying no one should be allowed to have sex because its all automatically rape….. because thats all any of you can see sexual relations with an animal as being.

        Growing up I had my interests, yet never got to fullfill them with the family dog due to the fact that he growled at my advances thus nothing happened. He gave me a response to show that its not something he was interested in and I respected it.

        Its infuriating how some of you pretend to know animals better than some of us zoos…. You act like all dogs are ignorant children, incapable of grasping basic things. If anything I respect animals far more than most of you pretend to. Shit I even occasionally feel slightly bad when I out of habit murdalize a spider, but thats just me.

        I do not fail to see that some dogs can be "trained" into the behaviors, and into not growling/reacting to your advances as they might normally. People will and do beat their dogs to the point where they will submit to anything you do. In that case though…… is it when they start having sex with the animal that they need to be told something?

        Anyone who is going to have sexual contact with an animal in a way that is forceful, likely is already the type of person who likely hits and mis-treats (shit diet, rarely taken on walks, if any), and thus shouldn't have a dog to begin with.

        You guys need to seriously grow up and learn to see past your own noses. If you cannot honestly imagine a person who has sex with an animal also being a very considerate person towards animals……. then your honestly retarded. I've never met an auto-mechanic who hated vehicles : /.

        If you guys really want to end the abuse, then you need to learn to open-minded and co-opperate with those of us who are zoos, and want to end things like beastiality, if anything, more so than any of you guys.

        Unlike most of you guys, they are not our pets, they are our companions. If anyone is pissed when a dog/animal is being raised wrong, abused (physical/vocal), its gonna be us.

        I'd likely grown up with more dogs than most of you will live with in the rest of your life time. So when some of you post your crap about how a dog mounting me is rape…… I'll just laugh and shake my head……

        Its like trying to tell an auto-mechanic how cars work when you yourselves have no experience with cars….. you just sound like a really inexperienced nit-wit know-it-all.

        And you guys…… calling for physical harm/death of these 2 people….. the dog wasn't even penetrated….. so theres like no chance of it being forced (remember how I mentioned my dog growled?). The dog likely swelled up and wagged his tail as any gent getting attention from a couple would, btw a lot of us generally prefer the pornographic material to have dogs that are like….. aroused so….. I'm sure the dog was aroused in the videos it was involved.

        You guys are the sick ones, they didn't even penetrate the damn animal and your saying they abused it, and need their hands chopped off….. and killed even? Well….. i'm sure if that dog was alive (you know, before animal-loving handlers killed him) long enough to see the couple disappear….. you'd see a dog just as hurt as those abandoned by their owners…..

        If that dog saw you try and hurt his companions, he'd bark bite and tear at you to protect them, given hes anything like my dogs were.

        You guys need to stop chasing after people who are likely more inclined to go out of their way to help animals :/

        Otherwise you end up with a ton people like my teacher who think its ok to neuter/spay cats, even though theres a risk you may end up getting your finger almost bitten off and killing the stray cat after tranqulizing when it does what FIGHT OFF YOU MOTHER FUCKERS FROM TAKING ITS GENITALS APART…… which is what happened to my teacher…

        They tried to take this living creature of god, just minding its own fucking business….. Living closer to nature than our "pet" cats, and mutilate its genitals, only to kill it.

        You guys need to grow the fuck up, stop thinking that every zoo wants to sneak into your house and rape your dog, stop thinking that zoos can't be around animals without thinking about sexing them to death, stop thinking that dogs cannot protect themselves. They tolerate us more than anything, which is is pretty nice considering how we've populated the world like a plague, decimating our resources, stealing the world from dogs and cats….. "domesticating" them….. thats fucking sickening if you ask me.

        Some animals to me….. are just above select individuals….. so when people talk about having an animal as a "pet" its kind of sad….. Its like just because they can't talk or write/communicate literally you guys just write them off as stupid and ignorant of things such as sexual interaction and choice to have it or not.

        You guys can go forever about how you think dogs are to stupid to inform me of whether or not they wanna…. play….. as I said before, I'll just laugh and shake my head…. cause what the fuck do any of you really know anyway? None of any of you have the experience us zoo's do. There is also such a thing called body language….. and vocalizations….. like when my dog growled at me to show I was annoying him…… but so many of you…..

        Are just haters :/

        Haters gotta hate, and sadly this is just to taboo of a topic for people to talk long enough/serious enough for all sides of the spectrum to be seen.

        You guys only see what you want to thus will never value anything of what we say. Despite, as me and others have, we will continue to try and explain against the waves of hate, how just with all types of colors/sexes/orientations…… that there isn't just one type of person to this entire group. One of the biggest zoo forum websites has damn near a MILLION PEOPLE REGISTERED (over 900,000 thousand!!!). So when you try and judge what is likely millions (as not all zoos are going to have internet, let alone be on that website) of people…. as one mean raping sadistic uncaring person…… is both illogical and impossible.

        Sure I say "you guys" a lot…. but thats just to direct what i'm saying towards those specifically calling my way of life out as being disorder ridden and comparable to sexual abuse on a child.

        It is nothing in comparison to the judging of millions of people that none of you have EVER EVEN MET. That's just so rude and childish……

        Can someone remind me why I'm trying to bother reason with these people? Can someone tell me their value, if they so easily tarnish the value of those they do not even know? It makes me laugh when some of you wonder why we would rather share intimate relationships with our animal companions as opposed to the "civil" humans such as you fine folk.

        Anywho, done wasting my breath.

  • MalamuteNewfoundland

    I live in the uk and I also let dog love me to this extent. I believe the German Shepherd in question was loved more than most of you love your dogs. We all know male dogs have the drive and desire – and lets face it people – he wouldnt have performed sexually if he was uncomfortable or being hurt. Dogs are sentient beings with more simple thought patterns than us, but they too are like us in that they enjoy sex and COULDNT get an erection if they were were in any way uncomfortable or suffering.

    I appreciate everyones opinion on this page, but I can only really associate with Bill's opinion. I feel we are of the same mind and sexuality!

    The rest of you guys are just jumping on the bandwagon to persecute someone for what you considder to be a flaw in thier choices and characters.. Your all like a flock of sheep and follow the general flow. Try moving to Isreal where you can still join a public stoning instead of sitting here on the net textually verballising discontempt for this couple.

    I have, do and will forever love my dogs.

    ps: Would you all rather I loved your young children instead of my own dogs?

    M'&'N

  • eva

    the dog did nothing wrong and had to be put down?…. not only these two are sick as i can see…

  • Tia

    Hi,,belive it or not that digusting person (Kim) is my birth mother,,and I made the mistake of giving her Max,, I trianed him as a service dog,, (NOT THAT KIND) he was trained to carry things and open and close doors! Shortly affter I gave her the dog I discovered that she had been molesting my 16 month old daughter, I turned her in but they said there wasnt enough evidence,, I moved away out of that aria,,,about a year latter wile helping care for my dad, who was on hospice, I found out what was happening to poor max,, I seen it on a web site called shawnsfarm,, I turned her in again! This time they did somthing about it! But not as much as they should have,,and unfortunatly there was no way I could go and get Max, I was 9 month pregnant a couple of hundred miles away, and caring for my dying father,, the Klamath Humane society ashured me that Max would go to a special rescue and hopfully get back to what he was originally trained for,, however when I called to check up on him they had put him down!!If I had know they were going to do that I would of had some friends go pick him up and hold him for me,,I would not of kept him,, I would have rehomed him,,I know it wasnt his fault but I just would not have been able to look at him without thinking about that… but I would have rehomed him with some one that didnt know about what had happened,, after at least a year of therapy to help him get past what had happened,, What she did will haunt me forever,, and I thank God every day that it was my dad that won custody of me when I was little and not her

  • a guy

    Dogs are animals. people are superior. dogs do not perform heart surgery or drive ambulances. dogs do not sign your paycheck. would you marry a dog? how is a dog better than a roach? is a dog president? did a dog give birth to you? they are for entertainment. human life comes first.

  • robert

    Any one who thinks abusing animals is rare or unthinkable needs to browse beastiality discussion boards where such people share their experiencies, photos, videos etc. most involving abusing their own pets.

  • Deloris

    anyone as sick as you know they would have to be to have sex with an animal should be put to death prison is to good for them besides why should we have to give them a roof over their heads and food to eat after doing something so wrong

  • Admin

    Couldn't agree more, Nancy!

    D.

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