Jigro Jackson facing multiple charges in connection with a reported sexual assault of a horse

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Police arrest 19-year-old man accused of abusing horse at Norfolk stable

Updated: 4:08 PM EDT Jul 20, 2021

NORFOLK, Mass. —

A Boston man is facing multiple charges in connection with a reported sexual assault of a horse that happened in Norfolk last week, according to police.

Norfolk police say 19-year-old Jackson Z. Kelley, who lives in Boston's Allston neighborhood, turned himself in late Tuesday morning with his attorney.
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Kelley was arrested, booked at the police station and transported to Wrentham District Court to be arraigned on the following charges: sexual contact with an animal, cruelty to animals and nighttime breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony.

"The Norfolk Police Department would like to thank the public for taking the time to come forward and become involved," reads a statement from the department. "We received many calls providing information which eventually led to the identification of Kelley as the suspect."

The MetroWest Daily News, a WCVB media partner, reports that during his arraignment on Tuesday, Kelley was ordered to be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing that is scheduled for Friday.

The owner of Turner Hill Equestrian Stables, Hillary Swarr, confirmed to NewsCenter 5 on July 17 that one of the horses at her Miller Street facility was sexually assaulted in the early morning hours of July 15.

"I don't think anybody is prepared for something like this," Swarr said.

Swarr says she got an alert from her security system at around 4:30 a.m. on July 15 and she saw a man inside the stables abusing one of the horses when she checked her security cameras.

According to Swarr, the man unplugged all of her security cameras except one, and was able to flee the scene before anyone could get to the stables to stop or apprehend him.

"I felt violated. I felt lost. I felt scared," Swarr said. "To see that someone would come into my own home and degrade a positive environment left me feeling violated.

According to Swarr, the suspect -- later identified as Kelley -- knew how to handle horses and is familiar with the animals.

"Someone, perhaps, in the business was savvy enough to get into the barn; be able to halter a horse, which to people who are novice, was not the easiest task; was able to put it on a cross-tie system, which secures the horse in a certain, particular area; and had the knowh0w to get grain or feed to keep it occupied," Swarr said.

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19-year-old Jackson Z. Kelley

Allston man pleads guilty to cruelty to animals following rape of A HORSE - MSN

Aug 15, 2023
An Allston man has been found guilty of cruelty to animals after prosecutors said he had sex with a horse in the summer of 2021.

Jackson Z. Kelley, 21, whose address at the time of his arrest in July 2021 was Linden Street in Allston, pleaded guilty Friday in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham to a charge of cruelty to animals.

Superior Court Judge Beverly J. Cannone sentenced Kelley to four years of probation and to a litany of conditions, including an order to stay away from animals and to receive counseling for sexually paraphilic behaviors.

Prosecutors say that Kelley, 19 at the time, was at a party near his parents’ home in Norfolk the evening of July 14, 2021, which lasted into the early morning hours of the next day.

Surveillance video from Turner Hill Equestrian Center in Norfolk captured the following scene at around 4:13 a.m. July 15, 2021, as described in the prosecution’s statement of the case: “an approximately 5’8” man with light brown skin enters the stable, turns on the lights, and walks into the stall of an approximately 1,200 pound female horse that was boarded at the stable. The man exits the stall while pulling up his pants.”

But Kelley was apparently not done, as he continued the assault — which is very detailed in the report — by taking the horse out of the stall and then cross-tying it as he retrieved a stepladder to continue the criminal actions.

“The horse repeatedly pulls away, and the man repositions the stepladder behind the horse,” one section from the footage summary states. “The man brings the horse a bowl of grain and unties one cross tie … The surveillance video shows the man repeatedly moving the stepladder as the horse moves …” The man, finished, then takes a drag off an electronic cigarette and checks his red cellphone.

All in all, as the Herald reported previously, Kelley assaulted the horse about 10 times during the 38-minute course of the surveillance video.


An unnamed person, however, was observing the camera feed as this all went down and called the cops. The owner of the stable released screenshots from the footage to the public and on July 19, some “juveniles” told police that “the man appeared to be a former classmate whom they identified as Jackson Kelley.”

Kelley under the plea deal’s sentence must: continue with mental health treatment, submit to an independent evaluation for assessment of his current medication, receive counseling for sexually paraphilic behaviors, to not use drugs and to submit to random drug testing, to stay away from anyone named in the investigation, to stay away from and have no contact with animals, to stay away from places where animals may be present and to not work with animals.

The plea deal left a second charge of sexual contact with an animal continued without a finding.
 
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