COLUMBUS, Ohio – A plea agreement was unsealed today in the case of a Licking County man who pled guilty to creating and distributing videos depicting acts of extreme violence and sexual abuse against monkeys.
Ronald P. Bedra, of Etna, pleaded guilty to conspiring to create and distribute “animal crush” videos.
According to court documents, Bedra reportedly conspired with others to create and distribute the videos that depicted baby and adult monkeys having limbs severed and being forcibly sodomized with a heated screwdriver.
The suspects, the Department of Justice said, used encrypted chat apps to direct money to individuals in Indonesia. Those individuals were willing to commit the requested acts of torture on camera.
Bedra, federal authorities say, mailed a thumb drive containing 64 videos of monkey torture to a co-conspirator in Wisconsin.