Brit woman ADMITS role in sick global monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders for sexual kicks
A BRIT woman has admitted her involvement in a sick global monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders for sexual kicks.
Adriana Orme played a major role in an online group, which saw baby monkeys being taken from their mums, abused then killed.
The 56-year-old pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
She will be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court on October 25 alongside Holly Le Gresley, 37, who also admitted being part of the group.
The court was told Orme sent one image and 26 videos featuring monkey torture between March 14, 2022, and June 16, 2022.
She also made a payment of £10 to a PayPal account – the cost of seeing a baby macaque being tortured.
LeGresley, who was known as the The Immolator, published 22 images and 132 monkey torture videos to online chat groups.
The pair are both from Worcestershire but are not believed to have known each other and used online aliases.
The court was told the women had “not carried out monkey torture themselves”.
It came after the BBC exposed a global monkey torture gang following a year-long investigation.
They discovered hundreds were paying Indonesians to kill infant long-tailed macaques on video.
Torture methods include setting the animals on fire and putting them in blenders.
LeGresley was known as The Immolator, meaning someone who practises sacrifice.
She once ran a poll on which torture method should be used on a baby monkey.
The bird lover describes her love of gore on Facebook – branding Hannibal Lecter and Pennywise the Clown “horror icons”.
She has even lashed out at films that portray animal cruelty before, including Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey.
Three people including suspected ringleader Michael Macartney have been charged in the US.
The 50-year-old, who went by the alias “Torture King”, ran several chat groups from around the world on encrypted messaging app Telegram.
The groups shared sick ideas for custom-made torture videos, which were then sent with payments to Indonesia.
According to US court papers, Macartney is accused of distributing videos depicting the “torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys”.
The BBC reports he has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges and faces up to five years in jail.
He previously described joining his first Telegram monkey group, saying: “They had a poll set up. Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?”
Macartney, from Virginia, said it was the “most grotesque thing I have ever seen”.
At least 20 people have been investigated over the sick videos – including three women living in the UK who were arrested in 2022.
Two people have been imprisoned in Indonesia, while David Christopher Noble and Nicole Devilbiss have been charged in the US.