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Text messages exchanged via an app reveal biologist Adam Britton’s cruelty and history of animal abuse.
The Australian justice system brought around 50 charges related to animal abuse, zoophilia and possession of child exploitation material against the Brit, who produced programs for the BBC and National Geographic.
The zoologist acquired around 42 dogs within two years, only to torture the animals to death in front of the camera.
And it was precisely because of a video that Britton was arrested, when a person managed to see the whereabouts of the criminal through the collar of a tortured dog. The prosecution is now supporting its case against the criminal with a series of messages exchanged online that show that the practice of sadism against animals has been going on for a long time.
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“I always knew I had this in me,” the defendant wrote in one of his two accounts that he used between 2020 and 2022 in the Telegram app under the names “Monster” and “Cerberus” the latter was in mythology a threeheaded dog Greek.
In conversations, he recounts the story of abuse and torture that began at the age of 7, intensified at “13 or 14” and reached the peak of cruelty around 20.
“I remember being sadistic about small animals when I was seven or eight and repressing it, but then in my 20s and 30s it really came back into my fantasies,” Britton said, using the pseudonym “Monster.”
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“I vaguely remember being interested in animals before, but then everything became sexual. “I started jumping over fences and harassing horses when I was 13 or 14,” he confessed on the app, where he also gave other Internet users tips on how to repeat the exercise with their animals when they die and after an animal dies have to look for ‘substitute’.
In November 2021, Britton admitted that he felt guilty the first time he murdered a dog, but got over it by killing more dogs. “Do you want to try to torture or kill a dog? It’s worth it,” he wrote.
“There was some regret after that but it passed quickly and I did it again a week later. And I haven’t regretted that. And then another and another, etc.,” he reported. During the interviews, the biologist sent dozens of videos showing him mistreating defenseless animals.
At the time of Britton’s arrest, officers found a dog’s severed limbs in a freezer, a decomposing puppy in a lake on the property and a severed dog’s head on a neighboring property.
He is now in custody and will appear in court again on December 13 to announce his sentence.