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Furries are members of a subculture who take on identities based on anthropomorphic animals, called fursonas. It may involve wearing mascot-like costumes. The attorney general’s office noted that a subset of furries do so as a “sexual fetish.”

“This is a horrendous case,” Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s attorney general, said in a statement released Sunday. “It is deeply disturbing to me not only as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, but as a father of young children.”

Harvey informed authorities that he had told another man, David Parker, 38, about the plans to meet the 13-year-old in June, according to the Bucks County probable cause affidavit obtained by Lehigh Valley newspaper the Morning Call.

Parker, who was apprehended the day after Harvey, described performing sexual acts on a victim born in 2001, according to an affidavit. Parker’s first attempts at abuse may have occurred when the boy was as young as 2 or 3, the Morning Call reported. Parker faced charges of child rape, the Pennsylvania’s attorney general office said, and counts that also included the possession of child pornography.

Beginning in 2009, Parker would transport the boy to a house, where, as the victim described, men donned full-body animal costumes. The boy, now 14, noted that Fenske’s fox costume consisted of “full long sleeves and pants, a zipper in the back, paw gloves, and a fox head with pointy ears,” the Associated Press reported. Fenske told others to call him by the name “Lupine” while he was in the fox suit. The child, meanwhile, was made to dress in a Tony the Tiger outfit.