50-year prison term for Houston ‘man from hell’ behind animal crush fetish videos

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) got a double serving of justice after a court found a 54-year-old Houston man guilty of animal cruelty and was sentenced to a 50-year-prison term. The heavy sentence was the first serving of justice on behalf of the small animals tortured and killed.

The second serving is the fact that the convict is a man, ironically, named Brent Justice, the producer of the crush fetish videos that show a woman killing puppies, kittens and a chicken. His accomplice, Ashley Richards, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014.

According to the New York Daily News, Richards is the woman in the videos produced by Justice wearing scant clothing and high heels, using meat cleavers and other tools to cull the small animals. In one video, Richards – who pleaded to three counts of animal cruelty in 2014 after the pair’s arrest in 2012 – is seen using her shoe heel to stab a cat’s eye.

She also cut off the limbs of the poor animals and pissed on it in other videos. The production of animal crush videos is part of a fetish culture in which violence on animals is the source of sexual gratification of viewers of the film clip. In 2013, a similar video of three young Filipinos stomping a puppy to death became viral on social media.

As a result of the complaint filed by PETA Asia-Pacific, the Filipino couple who produced the video, Dorma and Vicente Ridon, got a life sentence in 2014. In a statement following Justice and Richards’ conviction, PETA says, “PETA and our Internet allies will track anyone to the far corners of the Earth if they harm animals for their personal gratification.”