Posted on 08/09/2024 8:52:44 PM PDT by RandFan
From the outside, Adam Britton seemed like a passionate – albeit quiet and nerdy – advocate for animals.
Over decades, the 53-year-old built a colourful reputation as one of the world’s leading crocodile experts.
He swam with the apex predators in the wild, lent his pet crocodile Smaug to countless films and documentaries, and even hosted Sir David Attenborough at his home in Darwin, Australia; all the while preaching the need for greater respect for the creatures.
Warning: This story contains details of abuse readers might find distressing
But Britton has now been dubbed one of the world’s worst animal abusers, this week sentenced to over a decade in jail for filming himself sexually abusing and torturing dozens of dogs. Along with 56 charges of animal cruelty and bestiality, he also admitted to four counts of accessing child abuse material.
The news sent ripples of shock and disgust around the globe, leaving some of those who knew Britton questioning how he became the “Monster of McMinns Lagoon” - a reference to the sprawling property where he committed his crimes.
Several described to the BBC a shy but friendly man, others an arrogant attention-seeker who took credit for work that was not his own. But there was one point on which they all agreed: when combing through their memories for clues of Britton’s depravity, they found nothing.
“It truly seems like a Ted Bundy type situation where you would never imagine such a thing being possible,” former colleague Brandon Sideleau says.
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I guess some things are best left not reported.
It’s terrible. He is hated in Australia. The sentencing hearing was delayed several times, as if to lessen public attention. He might be out of jail in 4 years, if he gets parole. It is not adequate.
I hope he spends the rest of his life in prison.
Disgusting
Tim Walz likes to tame animals in his own way
Biblically it is a death penalty offense (beastiality)
It’s an awful story, and this article doesn’t even go into much detail, but just knowing these dogs suffered needlessly and helplessly under his ownership is horrid enough for now.
More will come out, now that he’s been stopped and convicted. His plea was “Guilty ‘.
He sounds like the Jimmy Savile of the animal kingdom.
May he burn in the fires of hell for all eternity.
This guy makes the Nazis look like pikers.
In some ways, that’s true. The big difference is with Jimmy Saville, he got away with the abuse for decades, and several people knew all about it. Thing was, when Saville made money, so did they. Some were quiet about him out of disgust or fear of his power in the entertainment world.
The article doesn’t tell us what he did.
Sick stuff.
But rapists of young girls get less time.
I read he can’t work with mammals when released. I guess Flipper is fair game?
But did he drown any spiders?
Wasn’t he bosom buddies with Prince Charles?
Funny, that is exactly who came to mind when I read this.
He should be under the jail.
The article has nothing to do with Walz. So why bring him up?
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