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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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

This seems like it should have also been in the headline.

[–] Nuerion@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i mean sure looking up that shit is bad but fucking dogs to death is worse i think

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because it's a fact. You know, the thing the news is supposed to report on.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It does report on that. It just didn't put it in the headline.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Death by anal perforation or whatever would be a shit way to die, but I think there's some that are even worse.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Floey@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Unless he paid for it I don't see how the two things are remotely equivalent. I'd take someone having thousands of vile images on their computer over someone who abused a child or animal even once.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could be six on parole if he is a good prisoner.

I really hope fate prevents him from leaving prison in anything other than a hearse.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

10 years!?! This psychopath deserves life in prison, and nothing less.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Both child abuse and animal abuse are treated far too leniently by the law. This guy should never be released.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

So he's a massively gross pervert and an expert on croc footwear?

[–] cuck4mai@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"He tortured at least 42 dogs, killing 39 of them, according to court documents seen by the BBC"

This is beyond being a pervert. This is a fucking serial killer. He tortured and killed the dogs in a shipping container on his property, and fed them to other animals.

The video that got him caught involved torturing 8 puppies.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And to my horror as a dog owner, he tricked pet owners into given them to him. It's not rational but it feels worse when they all had names and people who loved them.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

I was wondering how he kept getting dogs for this. This whole thing is terrible.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

This is what one should expect from someone obsessed with crocs.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Truly, this look is a red flag for bad life decisions.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 months ago

Pure deviancy.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

"Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two people"

shows a picture of a massively gross pervert and an expert on croc footwear

cuts away "they're the same people"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Croc-wearing gross pervert

No, you're thinking of this guy:

To be fair, we don't know what he was into, just that nobody did it quite right

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

woa and the summary does not even get into the general description of what he did that sounds so bad I don't want any details. I want to hit I need to take a half day in chat and then take tomorrow to.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 3 months ago

I've read a more detailed summary than what is currently available by doing a search.

It actually took me a week to read the description though, I just couldn't process how someone could be this sick.

I regret knowing the details, I am sick with anger whenever I think about Britton.

To know it happened in my hometown makes it so much worse to me.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

56 counts?!

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago

IT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH, ADAM! CHRIST!

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

He really loves dogs. Adam should be put to sleep.

[–] DerpDerpingtonIsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Say what now?!

[–] Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 3 months ago

RTFA

Britton usually went to great lengths to avoid identifying himself or his location in his videos, but in this one a bright orange City of Darwin dog leash could be seen in the background.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He'll be dead soon, scum like that dont last too long in prison. Maybe a gofund me for someone's commissary to grease the wheels.

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Gofragme (tm)

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