In Sudan, a man identified as Mr Tombe has been forced to take a goat as his ‘wife’ as punishment for having sex with the animal.
The decision was taken by council of elders after the owner of the goat, Mr Alifi proved with substantial evidence that Tombe slept with the animal.
The elders then ordered Tombe to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to the plaintiff.
For Mr Alifi, as far as he is concerned the goat and Mr Tombe are legally married.
‘We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together’, Mr Alifi reiterated.
According to Mr Alifi, he caught Tombe red-handed whiles he was inside the animal at midnight and making loud noise.
‘When I asked him: ‘What are you doing there?’, he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up’. Then, he called elders to decide how to deal with the case.
‘They said I should not take him to the police but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife’, Mr Alifi added. SOURCE: Kasatintin.com