It's a topic I don't even like to think about, but it's so astounding to me that people can develop get some sort of seriously perverse pleasure out of this, it seems worth noting. On the BBC website, this:
One of the ringleaders of a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
Mike Macartney, 50, who used the alias ‘The Torture King’, pleaded guilty in the US state of Virginia to conspiracy to create and distribute animal crushing videos.
Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team in a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.
The BBC’s reporting led to a nationwide criminal investigation in the US by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
A former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, Macartney ran several of the most high-profile torture groups, based on the encrypted message app Telegram.
Sadists around the world used Telegram groups to share ideas for specific methods of torture. Those requests were then sent, along with payments, to video makers in Indonesia, who carried them out on baby long-tailed macaques.
Though Macartney collected funds and distributed videos, he was able to show that he had never sent money directly to an Indonesian video maker.
This comes not long after the equally bizarre story of the zoologist guy in the Northern Territory who had a side line in sexually defiling dogs and then torturing them to death for a video fan club. At least he got 10 years in jail (and, hopefully, the loss of all family contact, forever.)
I really have no understanding of how men can respond to such material - or not recognize that it is indeed a serious problem to get pleasure that way, and not seek counselling or treatment to stop getting off on it.
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