A Boy and His Dogs: Justin Sharp's Alleged Obsession

A Boy and His Dogs: Justin Sharp's Alleged Obsession

By Steve Huff in bizarre
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at 6:42 pm

He is baby-faced and 5'9". News articles say he's just 18, but in photos he looks even younger. According to reports from the Palm Beach County Sheriff, he is one deeply sick puppy.

His name is Justin Lloyd Sharp. He was arrested Monday and charged with possessing child pornography. He was also charged with sexually assaulting a dog.

Police took computers from Sharp's possession back in April. On those computers, they say they found videos of preschool aged girls involved in sexual contact with adults. Police also say they found a video of Sharp raping a male German Shepherd.

The Palm Beach Post reports that Sharp admitted to what he did with the dog. During a civil case filed by Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control, Sharp's own mother admitted that her son said he'd raped the dog at least 4 times.

Palm Beach County won the case and seized two dogs and two cats from the Sharp residence.

Justin Sharp called himself Anubis410 on MySpace. According to Encyclopedia Mythica, Anubis was the "mysterious canid funerary deity of ancient Egypt." Anubis possessed a human body and the head of either "a jackal or a wild dog."

Sharp's profile has been edited to conceal who owns it, but in mid-July of this year it was still clearly run by Justin Sharp, an 18-year-old living in Palm Beach Gardens, FL with an interest in canines and video games. He had a latin headline. It read, "Lupus, perficio proeliator, gnaritas quod citatus, suum decor habui haud fines finium." Loose translation: "Wolf, the accomplished warrior, smart and fast, its beauty has no boundaries." Sharp apparently came up with that line, too, for he tagged it with his name. All the images associated with the profile now and before it was edited depicted wolves.

Back on MySpace, under his profile's "About me" section Sharp wrote the following, "My name is Justin and I have been accepted into Champlain College with their graduating class of 2012. I will be majoring in Videogame Programming. I have a Xbox 360 and I play games a lot online; my Xbox Live gamertag is Anubis410. Feel free to add me if you like. I am always willing to meet new friends! ;)"

Internet searches using "Anubis410" and information about Sharp led to this eBay user profile.

On eBay, Anubis410 said his interests included gaming online, wolves. He wrote that he had been born in Mississippi then lived in "Georgia for 9 years and I just moved to Palm Beach Florida." Anubis410 gave an address in Palm Beach Gardens, and a Gmail address that began with this screen name: "Anubis35142."

If Justin Sharp was Anubis35142, then further searching on the Web may have revealed a confession as to what he'd done with a dog made more than a year ago.

A sexual attraction to animals is referred to as zoophilia. Searching for "Anubis35142" gave results for a message board devoted to giving users "Free Zoophilia and Animal Sex Information," and a post made by Anubis35142 on May 10, 2007. The title of the message thread was "Your First Time," and the meaning was obvious -- people were supposed to post about their first sexual experience with an animal. Anubis35142's post was succinct -- and nauseating: "Mine was with a Male German Shepherd! I Anally penetrated him." Anubis35142 tagged the statement with a pink, smiling emoticon surrounded by a cloud of hearts.

According to the article in the Palm Beach paper, Justin Sharp was being held on a measly $9000 bond.

This, for a young man who has allegedly confessed to molesting one of his own dogs, and whom police say also had child porn.

Seems to me that bond amount is missing a zero or two. [PalmBeachPost.com. Additonal link -- Anubis410's YouTube profile.]
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