August 20, 2024 – 10:17 AM
A 56-year-old British woman has pleaded guilty to a years-long animal cruelty case in which participants in Indonesia and other Asian countries paid people to torture and take photos and videos of monkeys separated from their families. BBC writes.
British roll His journalists revealed it. Members of the international network initially shared footage of particularly cruel animal torture on YouTube and later on Telegram. The 56-year-old woman involved in the current proceedings is accused of posting a social media post encouraging the torture of long-tailed macaques, which are protected animals, and of participating in it. In one case, she paid £10 into a PayPal account to torture a baby macaque.
She is expected to be sentenced at the end of October, when another woman involved in the international animal cruelty case may also be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court. BBC investigative journalists first investigated posts on one of the largest Telegram animal cruelty groups, where hundreds of concerned people gathered. They shared ideas of extreme torture with each other, and here they also looked for applicants living in Indonesia and other Asian countries who were tasked with committing and filming crimes involving the deaths of young monkeys, often separated from their families.
The British woman who wrote the inflammatory article is also accused of sharing an image and 26 videos of monkey torture in private chat groups about the abuse between March 14, 2022, and June 16, 2022. Another British woman involved in one of the most serious mass animal cruelty cases in recent years shared 22 images and 132 videos, according to the charges against her. As a result, thousands of files were downloaded from the electronic devices of the 20 defendants that could serve as evidence against them.
