A key monkey torture video distributor in the US known as the 'The Torture King' described an online poll on one of the groups that gave the option: Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers? Do you want a screwdriver?
JAMES CALLERY: A monkey torture ring sadistically abused and killed baby macaques on camera for customers in the UK and US, an investigation has found. A year-long BBC probe found the cruel ring was operating globally with hundreds paying Indonesians to torture and kill infant long-tailed macaques on video.
An alleged key video distributor in the US, known as the ‘The Torture King’, discussed a poll on one of the groups that gave the option of hammers or pliers for use in torture, adding: ‘It went from baby bottle teasing to fingers being snipped off.’
The torture ring started on YouTube, before moving to private groups on Telegram, the BBC World Service investigation found. In the secretly filmed video, M Ajis Rasjana tells an undercover reporter that when he is ‘very, very angry’ he hits the monkeys against the wall. He notes that about a week ago he banged a monkey’s head against the wall and blood was coming out of its mouth, which he says was ‘so cool’, while laughing…
BBC journalists went undercover in one of the main Telegram torture groups, where hundreds of people got together to plan torture ideas and commission people in Indonesia and other nations in Asia to put them into practice. The group aimed to make tailored videos showing the abuse, torture and sometimes killing of baby long-tailed macaque monkeys.
The BBC located the torturers in Indonesia, and the buyers and distributors in the US. They also managed to access an international law enforcement effort to have them punished for their actions. At least 20 people are now under investigation around the world, including three women living in the UK who were arrested by police in 2022 and released under investigation, and one man in Oregon, USA, who was indicted last week.
Mike McCartney, allegedly a key video distributor in the US, who is called ‘The Torture King’ in the videos, described to the BBC journalists the moment he joined his first Telegram monkey torture group. McCartney, who the BBC say used to be a motorcycle gang member and served prison time before he joined the monkey torture network, remarked: ‘They had a poll set up. Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?’ He said the video that followed was ‘the most grotesque thing I have ever seen’. McCartney came to run a number of Telegram groups that saw torture enthusiasts distributing videos…
The BBC also identified two other key suspects being investigated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Stacey Storey, a grandmother from Alabama in her 40s known as ‘Sadistic’ among others in the network, and a ringleader known as ‘Mr Ape’, whose real name was not disclosed by the broadcaster for safety reasons. ‘Mr Ape’ said in an interview with the publication that he had caused the deaths of at least four monkeys and tortured several others more. He also said that he had commissioned ‘extremely brutal’ videos. Department of Homeland Security agents took Storey’s phone, finding almost 100 torture videos, along with evidence that she had funded the creation of some of the most horrifying videos produced…
Police in Indonesia have arrested two torture suspects. Asep Yadi Nurul Hikmah, who was charged with animal torture and the sale of a protected species, received a three-year prison sentence. M Ajis Rasjana was sentenced to eight months, the maximum available for animal torture. SOURCE…
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