This story is unbelievably horrible. Adam Britton, a fairly well-known Australian expert on crocodiles, has been arrested for unspeakable acts.
A prominent crocodile specialist from Darwin has pleaded guilty to dozens of charges of bestiality involving the torture, rape and killing of pet dogs.
A suppression order had hidden the identity of Adam Robert Corden Britton, a zoologist who has built an international reputation for his work on crocodiles over decades, since his arrest last year. However, that has now been lifted.
Britton is facing 60 charges relating to bestiality and possessing, accessing, and transmitting child abuse material.
A number of videos depicting animal cruelty were found during a joint NT Police and Australian Federal Police raid which resulted in his arrest on a rural Darwin property last year.
You’d think a professional zoologist would have a deep respect for animals. If he offered to adopt a pet dog you could no longer care for, you’d think that for sure you were sending the animal off to an excellent home. You’d think wrong.
Britton had a “sadistic sexual interest” in animals since at least 2014, prosecutors told the court, and along with exploiting his own pets, he had manipulated other dog owners into giving him theirs.
He would use the online marketplace platform Gumtree Australia to find people who were often reluctantly giving their pets away due to travel or work commitments, building a “rapport” with them to negotiate taking custody of the animals. If they reached out to Britton for updates on their old pets, he would tell them “false narratives” and send them old photos.
In reality, he was abusing the animals in a shipping container on his property that had been fitted out with recording equipment – which the court heard he called a “torture room” – before sharing footage of his crimes online under pseudonyms.
Prosecutors told the court Britton owned a shipping container on his property equipped with filming equipment and used the space “to torture, sexually exploit and kill dogs”.
Last year, police seized 44 items including computers, mobile telephones, cameras, external hard drives, tools, weapons, dog paraphernalia and sex toys.
Mr Aust told the court that Britton operated a Telegram account which was used for the sole purpose of engaging in conversations with “like-minded people”, and that he used another account to upload and disseminate images and recordings of his crimes.
“Using these applications, the offender discussed his ‘kill count’ … and described the shipping container on his property as his ‘torture room’,” Mr Aust said.
The only reasonable penalty for this monster was suggested at the end of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I’m sorry to say.
Sometimes it’s hard to be against the death penalty.
The day would have gone just fine without knowing about this.
It kinda looks like this loony creep WANTED to get caught; or at least wanted to show people how deranged and sick he was.
“The day would have gone just fine without knowing about this.”
I second this. The problem with the death penalty in this instance is that it can only be applied once…
I miss ten seconds ago, when I didn’t know about this.
(sets fire to her phone)
Zoologist who sexually abuses animals. The only parallel I have is a pedophile who becomes a schoolteacher.
I am in total agreement with poster #1, Samuel Vimes. Talk about TMI.
If there is a temple that needs human sacrifices to bring the dragons back, we can solve two problems in one swoop.
Dunno why you’d think that. It’s like saying you’d think lawyers would have a deep respect for the law. I’m sure many do. But, as we’ve learned, scary psychopaths can succeed in any field.
There is a SF story titled “A Planet Named Shaoyl” where the condemned prisoners are used to grow new limbs and organs for transplants.
I am just throwing the idea out there, in case some of you are doing stem cell research.
It’s more like saying you’d expect physicists to have a deep respect for math. It’s also an empirical observation: the biologists I know all care about animals.
Unless he was a specialist in crocodiles, in which case I would wonder if her were using them as food for his favorite test subjects. But I probably wouldn’t have expected bestiality.
@6 and @8, birgerjohansson:
I see your “A planet named Shayol” by Cordwainer Smith, and raise with “The iron dragon’s daughter” by Michael Swanwick. Dragons are indeed brought back to electrifying effect.
For the rest, a jeroboam of brain-bleach.
There is a SF story titled “A Planet Named Shaoyl” where the condemned prisoners are used to grow new limbs and organs for transplants.
I read a short story where a teenage girl was running away from home, and it turned out she was a clone, and her “mother”/”original” needed her back to replace her own failing organs. Like “The Island” only more plausible and cost-effective.
One of two suggestions.
Lock him into his shipping container, then lower it into his new lair inside of an active volcano.
Put him into a pit and RELEASE THE DOVES!
Erm, those were the dogs that he abused, not doves.
Oh, my bad, dyslexia and all (leaning over pit edge, Sorry, my bad). See? They love him, they’re having him over for dinner.
As dinner…
Damned dyslexia! Still, see? They love him – oh! I think spaghetti is out for dinner tonight.
One alternative, allow him to be stand-in for the worth far more crash test dummy. For a spacecraft crash test experiment.
Or just drop him into prison and let him rot for the remainder of his life – then bury his remains inside of the prison in an unmarked grave.
Our organization is not happy with this reality. But we posit that human society is largely a destructive failure. There are some people who are decent, honest and caring, but most (as evidenced by Corporate and Repugnantcant and xtian terrorist behavior) are sociopaths. This post by PZ is just one more corroboration of that. ‘all in all it’s just another brick in the wall’
@13 wzrd1 said: Oh, my bad, dyslexia and all
I reply: we understand and appreciate your contribution. One of our members who is dyslexic has a good sense of humor and says ‘Hey, curing dyslexia is as easy as 1,3,2’
Can’t help but think of the much-deserved (but too quick) fate of Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones. You can find it on Youtube.
Ramsay and Adam would’ve got on well.
Ya beat me to it, Rob. That would certainly make up for the unfairness of only being able to kill him once.
I have other ideas about what to do with such people, but like I mentioned before I don’t want DHS to tag me as a potential psycho killer.
Question: can an astronaut travel to Mars and back by growing plants fertilised by his feces and also survive the cosmic radiation that will slowly but surely kill the brain cells?
-The way I see it, this guy is a volunteer. Too bad if his skeleton does not recover from decalcification.
I would rather not have him killed. Maybe he can get some help in prison.
Fucking hell! I saw the ABC headline and thought he was just fucking animals. I didn’t realise how sick this fuck is.
gijoel, I saw it, but unfortunately did read the article. Just before going to bed.
Took me ages to fall asleep, due to being upset thus stimulating the endocrine system.
Not sick. Evil. By my standards, anyway.
Not treatment — well, I suppose it would work as well as gay conversion therapy works — but vigilance and monitoring. Can’t treat evil.
Addendum, re birgerjohansson’s comment, because it mimics my own sentiment:
No need to actually kill.
Permanent physical preclusion of the ability do ever do that sort of thing again would work, too. That would vitiate any need for vigilance and monitoring, but might be considered unenlightened depending on one’s ethical system.
(I could think of multiple methods, many of which need not entail surgery)
John Morales @ 22 — Probably wouldn’t work. Odds are he’d just violate the dogs with an object instead. If we were to have to pick a protrusion from his body to remove that’d prevent him reoffending, I suggest the head.
Jemolk, yeah, it would. I was being quite precise, but obviously too oblique.
“Permanent physical preclusion of the ability” means just what it says.
If he could do it in any fashion whatsoever, then the ability clearly can’t have been precluded, can it? If the ability can be repaired, then it can’t have been permanent.
Step 1) get outraged by the behaviour of a sick fucking sadist
Step 2) rejoice in imagining torturous methods of punishment of the deserving.