§48. Animal crush videos (a) Definition.-In this section the term "animal crush video" means any photograph, motion-picture film, video or digital recording, or electronic image that- (1) depicts actual conduct in which 1 or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or …
Nicole Devilbiss, 35, faces five years in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to create and distribute animal crush videos. She estimated the videos cost between $100 and $230 to make, the ...
Court documents describe that Noble conspired with others to send multiple online payments to co-conspirators overseas to fund the production of "animal crush" videos, which began no later than ...
The Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act criminalizes the creation, sale, and marketing of these specific kinds of videos, which lawmakers had labeled as "obscene." Penalties of up to seven years in ...
Crush Videos, or 'animal snuff movies', are videos of animal cruelty showing innocent animals, including puppies, kittens, and other companion animals, being slowly …
The videos Hollifield watched belonged to an extreme genre of porn called animal crush. Typically, animal crush videos depict small vertebrate animals being …
On April 20, the US Supreme Court, in United States v. Stevens, handed a victory to animal abusers when it overturned the federal statute (18 U.S.C. §48) prohibiting the creation, sale, and possession of "crush videos" and other depictions of animal cruelty for commercial purposes. As we go to press, legislation to restore at least part of ...
MADISON, WIS. – A Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin man was sentenced today for knowingly causing the creation, sale, and distribution of an obscene animal crush video, in violation of the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act ("PACT Act").
Brent Justice, 55, was sentenced on August 18 in Houston to nearly five years in prison for making videos that featured a woman mutilating and killing puppies, chickens, and kittens between ...
65°. Jacksonville woman accused of distributing 'animal crushing' videos. Here's what that means. Jacksonville native 35-year-old Nicole Devilbiss is accused of an online group chat that was ...
The PACT Act, or the "Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act," empowers the federal government to stop the creation and distribution of "animal crush" videos across state lines.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024. For Immediate Release. U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida. Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces …
Finally, the Humane Society asserts that § 48 has been effective, arguing that the crush video industry was virtually dead in 2007, but that after the Third Circuit's decision, crush videos are again available online. The United States further contends that combating animal cruelty is important for preventing harm to both humans and animals.
The campaign to criminalize "crush" videos began in 1999 with the passage of federal legislation to ban the fetishized extreme torture of animals, typically involving the videotaped crushing and trampling of small animals as a means of sexually gratifying the viewer. ... President Barack Obama signed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act ...
In a precedent-setting action, authorities swiftly arrested Shaimaa Haridi Masoud Ali, who later confessed to producing and selling videos of tortured animals. She was taken into custody on charges of cruelty to animals and will be detained for two weeks, pending a full investigation. "This is the first known arrest for 'crush' video ...
A Michigan man has been arrested and charged with multiple "animal crush" crimes over the alleged creation of dog torture videos. Lucas Russell VanWoert, 25, stands accused of four counts of creation of an animal crush video and four counts of distribution of an animal crush video, according to federal court records reviewed by Law&Crime.. …
Authorities found over 50 animal crush videos on Noble's phone and they accused him of funding at least 12 videos. Among other things, the videos showed the "torture, murder, and …
The Animals Killed for These 'Crush Videos' Every animal is someone, not a prop to be mutilated for disturbing videos. The arrested woman allegedly slowly beheaded a pigeon and tortured and killed frogs, a rabbit, and a chicken—all individuals with distinct personalities and a desire to live. Some of these animals' agonizing deaths …
The co-conspirators agreed to create animal crush videos using videographers and animals in other countries, including Indonesia, which would then be sent to the United States. The group's name changed multiple times to innocuous names that were inconsistent with the goals and interests of the group, which appeared to be an …
The torture has lasted almost 30 minutes. Known as 'crush videos' or 'animal snuff movies', such films occupy the cross-over point between animal cruelty and extreme fetishistic pornography and ...
340. Enlarge / Defendant Ashley Nicole Richards. A 24-year-old Houston, Texas woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to producing and distributing online so-called crush videos where puppies, chickens and ...
Crush videos are recordings which typically depict women in stilettos or bare feet literally crushing, stomping on, or impaling small, helpless animals to satisfy the bizarre sexual fetishes of sadistic viewers. The Animal Welfare Institute is vehemently opposed to "crush videos" and has supported federal legislation intended to stop the trade in these films in …
The Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act criminalizes the creation, sale, and marketing of these specific kinds of videos, which lawmakers had labeled as "obscene." …
April 20, 2010, 2:46 pm CDT. Tweet. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a law that bars depictions of animal cruelty in an 8-1 opinion that characterizes the government's defense of the video ...
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The term "animal crush video" is defined under federal law as any photograph, motion-picture film, video or digital recording, or electronic image that depicts actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians is intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled or otherwise …
Crush videos depict women torturing animals to death to satisfy the sexual fetishes of those who watch them. PETA's Emergency Response Team worked around the clock to find the perpetrators who …
Crush videos are recordings which typically depict women in stilettos or bare feet literally crushing, stomping on, or impaling small, helpless animals to satisfy the bizarre sexual fetishes of sadistic viewers. The Animal Welfare Institute is vehemently opposed to "crush videos" and has supported federal legislation inten…See more on awionline
WEB2 min read. After obtaining evidence that a woman in Cairo was killing animals in shockingly cruel ways for fetish "crush" videos sold online to buyers around the world, PETA Asia and a legal team from the …
Brent Justice, 55, was found guilty on three counts of producing and one count of distributing what is referred to as "animal crush videos" following a one-day bench trial May 23, 2016. Today, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake, who presided over the trial, handed Justice a 57-month sentence. Justice also be required to serve a term of three ...
Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the prohibition against depictions of animal cruelty to prohibit anyone from knowingly creating an animal crush video if: (1) such person intends or has reason to know that such video will be distributed in, or using a means or facility of, interstate or ...
Nicole Devilbiss, 35, faces five years in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to create and distribute animal crush videos She estimated the videos cost between $100 and $230 to make, the ...
Making and distributing crush videos, which revolve around hurting or killing animals for entertainment, has been a federal crime since 2010, with Congress voting in 2019 to also outlaw extreme ...
Tieng's and Velarde's House Bill 4595, or the anti-animal crush video act of 2011, prohibits "knowingly selling, marketing, advertising, exchanging or distributing" crush videos, which ...
Please check your Internet connection and try again. In a case that has shocked and outraged animal lovers nationwide, Nicole Danielle DeVilbiss, 35, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of conspiracy to create and distribute animal crush videos. United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced …
The creation and distribution of "crush" videos involving the harming of animals is illegal—under the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 —and punishable by up to 7 years in prison ...