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HEADLINE:

Man accused of having sex with chicken

 

SUBHEAD:

Suspect being charged as habitual offender because of prior crimes against

animals

 

BYLINE:

BY KEN KOSKY

Times Staff Writer

 

 

STORY:

VALPARAISO -- After chicken feathers and blood were found all over a room

at Valparaiso Motel on Monday, Valparaiso police were called to

investigate.

 

The room was found to have been rented Sunday night to Michael Bessigano,

a 30-year-old Valparaiso man with a history of harming and having sex with

animals. Police questioned Bessigano on Tuesday, and police said he

admitted he had sex with a chicken.

 

Bessigano was booked into Porter County Jail on a felony animal cruelty

charge. Because this is the third crime against animals he's been charged

with, he also is being charged as a habitual offender, said Chief Deputy

Prosecutor Brian Gensel.

 

He faces up to 7 1/2 years in prison if convicted of both charges.

 

"He's got problems and hopefully he will be getting some help," said

Valparaiso Detective Lt. Mike Brickner. "He has these urges that need to

be addressed."

 

Brickner said Bessigano stole a chicken Sunday from a chicken farm along

Ind. 2, south of Valparaiso. He took the chicken to his motel room on U.S.

30, which he'd just rented that one night, and plucked its feathers so he

could have sex with it, Brickner said.

 

Bessigano then had sex with the animal and it died, Brickner said.

 

Although Bessigano has been out of jail since January, police said this is

his first run-in with the law this year.

 

"There's no indication he's done this (animal abuse) recently prior to

that night," Brickner said.

 

The owner of the motel told police he had no idea Bessigano was a

convicted animal abuser. Motel officials discovered the blood and feathers

when they went to clean the room.

 

Bessigano's animal abuse dates back to 1991 when he was arrested twice,

once after being accused of breaking a rooster's neck and once after he

was found in a neighbor's goose pen apparently attempting to molest the

geese.

 

He was also accused of having sex with and killing a Rottweiler dog at a

rural Crown Point ranch in 1992. He was convicted of theft and cruelty to

an animal, and was imprisoned until 1994.

 

A month after his release, he was arrested in connection with the

attempted theft of a German shepherd from some property in St. John

Township. He was returned to prison, then was transferred to prison

psychiatric care. He spent time behind bars after he was charged with

biting a health care provider at Logansport's psychiatric unit in 1999.

 

He was released on probation in January and had been living with a family

member in Valparaiso.

 

Bessigano has said he slept with dead animals, including a raccoon, when

he was a child. While in jail, he would sleep under his cot, paint

cat-like stripes on his body and make drawings referring to himself as

"master of cats."

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