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A man who avoided jail time after pleading guilty to having sex with a donkey asked a judge this week to revoke his light sentence and send him to the pokey instead.

Gideon D. Swartzentruber, 20, of Neillsville, Wisconsin, admitted in September to “encountering a female donkey and briefly having sex with it.”

He explained his behavior by telling investigators at the time that “his privates were out of control.”

A judge last month slapped him with a year’s probation, a $443 fine and mandatory counseling.

Swartzentruber appeared in court this week and asked to be sent to jail, according to News-Herald Media. The judge granted his request and sentenced him to a 30-day stint in the slammer.

The farmhand was fired after his boss caught him in the act with the donkey.

Swartzentruber, who was charged with a misdemeanor count of sexual gratification with an animal, said he did not hurt the donkey and that it was the first time “he had done anything like that.”

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