Adam Britton pleaded guilty to 60 charges, which also included four counts of accessing child abuse material.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26548535

Adam Britton, a leading zoologist who has worked on BBC and National Geographic productions, pleaded guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and animal cruelty.

He also admitted to four counts of accessing child abuse material.

The Northern Territory (NT) Supreme Court heard the 53-year-old filmed himself torturing the animals until almost all died, and then shared the videos online under pseudonyms.

His abuse went unnoticed for years, until a clue was found in one of his videos. Britton was arrested in April 2022 after a search of his rural Darwin property, which also uncovered child abuse material on his laptop.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “My own dogs are family and I have limits, I only badly mistreat other dogs… I have no emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty more where they came from.”

    This is in line with the implication of carnism. Animals are simply objects to be consumed for pleasure. They have no intrinsic value; their only value is derived from the carnist’s own emotional attachment to them.

    Much of the detail of Britton’s crimes are too graphic to publish, and so “grotesque” Chief Justice Michael Grant warned the courtroom they could cause “nervous shock”.

    And yet he’ll be up for parole in 2028. This fucker deserves a life sentence.

  • Noxy@yiffit.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I feel like “sexual abuse” in this headline doesn’t adequately convey the true depth of the horrors the article describes.

    I have such a hard time knowing that people like this exist. Just knowing that anyone is capable of intentionally inflicting such brutal and extreme suffering and injury on another living, breathing, feeling being rattles me to my core. Let alone actually acting on it, let alone getting away with it for so long.

    Are some people just naturally like this? Is there any hope at all to treat such a capacity and drive to commit such cruelty or are people like this just broken for life somehow?

    Fucking hell, I wish I hadn’t read this article. Even tho he was caught, the reminder that such cruelty is possible in the first place is fucking awful and it’s so hard to deal with. Those poor dogs.

    • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Nobody chooses what they’re sexually attracted to.

      Understand that acting compassionately is in his own best interest doesn’t change the fact that his fantasies will likely never change.

      If he was given the opportunity to offend again without risk, there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t.

  • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been following this case for almost two years, the sick fuck did this in my home town.

    The degree of pain this cunt inflicted is disgusting. I regret reading the detailed description of the 1B9P video, it made me sick.

    To give this piece of shit the opportunity to reenter society, and potentially torture other animals, is unacceptable. 10 years doesn’t cut it.

    A Reddit user said:

    Do not look up his crimes even if you think you’ve been desensitized. I glanced at the description and some of my wiring just melted. I backed the heck out and remained human. Worse than any cartel videos but with puppies. Leave it alone

    Which about sums it up.