Lenny Dartez, 69, kept a 12 foot alligator tied and blindfold for the last month, sexually assaulting the reptile multiple times a day.
Morgan City Police responded after a man out of a nature hike happened to walk by Dartez’s house and saw Dartez having sex with the alligator in his backyard.
The witness heard Dartez say, “next time you try to kill a man, you best get the job done. Now you’re my b**** forever.”
“It was the **** strangest thing I’ve ever seen,” the witness told police. “The gator didn’t even move. It was like it didn’t give a s**t that man was having sex with it.”
Police responded and arrested Dartez on multiple counts of animal cruelty and one count of illegally keeping a wild animal.
Excerpt from Dartez’s police statement:
The gator tried to eat me and this was revenge, pure and simple. I don’t have no sexual attraction to gators, but I wanted to teach this b**** a lesson. I could have just killed her, but that would have been too easy. She was getting what she deserved.
Dartez also told police he had planned to chop off the alligator’s tail and pull her teeth as part of his revenge scheme and had even considered performing noise torture on the reptile by playing what Dartez described as “****** music” over and over.
Dartez claimed the alligator had gotten a hold of his pant leg when he was fishing in a swamp and tried to drag him into the water. Dartez was able to escape without injury, but that had set his resolve to get revenge.
The alligator is being treated for relatively minor injuries and is expected to be released back into the wild within a couple weeks.