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.

  • NoxyEnglish
    8•1 month 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 month 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.