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Monkey Haters Jailed for Crush Videos

From ADI Animal Defenders Inernational
November 2024

ADI has been working with SMACC (Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition), alongside Ofcom in the UK, to crack down on animal torture videos online. 

Two women were sentenced on November 13, 2024, under the Serious Crimes Act (2007) for distributing hundreds of monkey torture videos and images on Telegram. One woman has been jailed to two years, and the other fifteen months. The torture videos were created in Indonesia, where monkeys are torn from the wild to be tortured for these videos.

Despite not being filmed in the UK or by the women, this was a ground-breaking conviction for distribution of the horrific videos and the first time in the UK that offenders have been charged for animal cruelty offences that took place abroad.

This ruling follows the sentencing of a man in September for the same activity. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison for three counts of publishing obscene material under the Obscene Publications Act (1959). In October, an Ohio man was sentenced to 54 months in prison for conspiring with others to create and distribute videos depicting acts of sadistic violence against baby and adult monkeys. These videos were also created in Indonesia.

Monkey torture content has been growing over the past few years. ADI has been working with SMACC (Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition), alongside Ofcom in the UK, to crack down on animal torture videos online. We will continue working hard to end this disgusting phenomenon. Please email us at [email protected] to let us know when you see cruel or suspect content (eg fake rescues with animals deliberately placed in danger).

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: November 23, 2024
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