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.
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He also admitted to four counts of accessing child abuse material.
This seems like it should have also been in the headline.
i mean sure looking up that shit is bad but fucking dogs to death is worse i think
I didn’t say don’t put the dog part in the headline, I said put both in the headline. “He’s also a pedophile” shouldn’t be something that people need to keep reading to find out about.
Why? The term itself has become almost totally devalued after a decade of conservatives labeling everyone with it. When I see the word now I just think it identifies the information as clickbait or propaganda.
Being a paedo is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. CSAM is illegal, rightfully so, but the CSAM videos weren’t produced by him.
The amount of suffering produced directly by Britton vastly outweighs the suffering he caused by potentially redistributing the CSAM videos.
I don’t think he actually fucked the dogs to death. I think they died of actual sadistic torture.
Which isn’t any better, but somehow the former just feels worse to me.
It’s weird how often headlines bury that lede. Happened a lot with that Dutch volleyball player too. Headlines would never call him a child rapist. That’s what he did yet never in the headline.
On a technicality, as in the end he wasn’t convicted of that under Dutch law because rape (back then) required violence. Any newspaper directly calling him a child rapist opens themselves up to a possible lawsuit.
The sentence was adjusted in line with Dutch law, and the charge of rape was substituted for one referring to ontucht (“sexual acts that violate social-ethical norms”).[21][22] After serving 13 months of his original four year sentence, he was released from prison.[17] Until 1 July 2024, Dutch law only recognised rape if force was involved.[23]
What was the clue?
Lol, I read that he left a leach indicating the city he lived in, and the police figured the rest out.
A user named mushroom* on Reddit found the leesh and forwarded it to the police here.
Later, presumably after Britton was already arrested, someone scrubbed through his videos frame-by-frame looking for clues.
In one video of him torturing dogs, the dog kicks the camera and his face was visible for a single frame.
.* don’t know the exact spelling
So he’s a massively gross pervert and an expert on croc footwear?
10 years!?! This psychopath deserves life in prison, and nothing less.
