LAWYER SHOWS COURT HOW PERV BUMMED DOG

RECREATION: Stuffed pet used in court PROSECUTORS used a cute stuffed toy to let a witness show just how a boffin had bummed his basset hound.

Joseph Hattey, a physicist at Michigan State University, is charged with two counts of bestiality after penetrating and inappropriately stroking his pet basset hound, Flash.

During a preliminary hearing, prosecutor Richard Cunningham brought out a life- like stuffed dog and asked the witness to demonstrate what he allegedly saw Hattey, 51, do at his home in Holt, Michigan. SUSPENDED: University Physicist Jospeh Hattey

The witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “I was still petting the dog holding him by his chest, petting his head and his ears and Hattey was on the other side of the dog trying to get aroused by stroking it.”

When the attorney asked where Hattey was touching the animal, the witnesses replied: “On its genitals.” During a search of Hattey’s home cops seized a mobile phone and PC which is said to have contained photographs of “human and animal acts”, including two pics of a man who prosecutors allege is Hattey having sex with a dog presumed to be Flash.

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office said he penetrated the dog with both his hand and penis.

A detective testified that a vet’s examination showed the dog had suffered anal trauma but couldn’t determine it was sexual in nature.

In April, Hattey was suspended from Michigan State University pending an outcome of the case.

Before working as a physicist in the school’s environmental health and safety office, he worked in the school’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

If convicted of the crime, Hattey faces up to 15 years in prison.

Flash has since been adopted by a family.

The preliminary hearing for Hattey is scheduled to continue this week. Pic posed by model