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A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors.

Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias "Torture King", was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos.

Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team during a year-long investigation into sadistic monkey torture groups.

Two women have also been charged in the UK following the investigation.

Warning: This article contains disturbing content

Mr Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who previously spent time in prison, ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

You see, sometimes you see some fucked up shit in a movie and you think "oh ok, this is just for the sake of story, there's no way this has ever happened in real life"
Then you read an article like this.

The groups were used to share ideas for custom-made torture videos, such as setting live monkeys on fire, injuring them with tools and even putting one in a blender.

How... How do you even come back from this? Is there any hope these people can get rehabilitated? I'm struggling to believe the answer is anything other than "NO."

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I don't think there is.

I'd like to understand the physical and mental variations between the relatively normal population at large and these cretins, just to see if it's lead poisoning or what, but I'd pay tax money to let them eat nutrient loaf behind bars forever.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I say just do to them what they did to the animals.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's problematic, you'll have to find the same kind of people and pay them.

Rather just terminate them.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, you just put them up against each other, Thunderdome style, then execute the winner.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't like the idea of doing things their way, even by their own hands.

Just chair or gallows or something like that.

I think the same about Azeri war criminals (basically their entire army) too, for example.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

On one hand I understand that society needs to be better than those it punishes.

On the other hand I'm wondering if we hit the hunger games or the running man first...

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