A veterinarian from Florida (USA) who created and shared videos in which he was seen sexually abusing dogs and who also collected child pornography from the network was sentenced this Friday to more than 21 years in prison, the Prosecutor’s Office reported.
Prentiss K. Madden, a licensed professional vet practicing in Aventura, southeast Florida, is guilty of producing videos of himself "engaged in sexual activities with dogs and sharing them with others in chats", said the public ministry in a statement.
Madden "videotaped himself sexually abusing dogs and shared the bestiality videos online", he detailed.
According to official information, the vet kept these videos "of bestiality, as well as talks about bestiality", on their cell phones.
In addition, indicates the Prosecutor’s Office, he is also guilty of accessing a Dropbox account that contains images of child pornography, receiving photographs and videos of child pornography through social media chats and talking about child sexual abuse during chats .
Likewise, the judge contemplated when passing the sentence, of 272 months in prison, the storage of thousands of images of child pornography in his Dropbox account and cell phones.
On July 29, Madden had pleaded guilty to three counts of receiving child pornography, one of possession of child pornography and another of creating an animal abuse video, the latter based on a federal statute that punishes acts of animal torture, including bestiality.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, this case was presented as part of the Safe Childhood Project, a national initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
The initiative, which brings together federal, state and local resources, was launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to "better locate, detain and prosecute persons who exploit children over the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims".
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