Woman in Scotland jailed in baby monkey torture case
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Natalie Herron in Scotland, has been sentenced to two years and three months at Airdrie Sheriff Court today for her part in a global monkey torture ring that paid for and ordered baby monkeys to be sadistically tortured and killed in Indonesia, to create videos to be circulated online.
The sentence has been welcomed by Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker, who have spent four years investigating the sadistic world of online monkey torture groups. The conviction is part of an international crackdown by law enforcement agencies in the UK and the USA against those people who facilitate the torture of baby monkeys. Several people in the UK and USA are already serving or have served prison sentences.
Herron was a member of the same monkey torture group as two women from England—Adriane Orme and Holly LeGresley—who were both sent to prison in November 2024 (https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2024/november/women-jailed-for-monkey-torture-offences/). The group was run by Michael Macartney, who called himself the "Torture King". Macartney is currently serving three years and four months in prison in the USA for conspiring to make and distribute "animal crush" videos. He ran several online Telegram groups that facilitated the torture, murder and sexually sadistic mutilation of baby long-tailed macaques as 'entertainment'. Several other members of the group are also serving time in US jails.
In the group on Telegram, Herron shared videos depicting the torture and abuse of baby monkeys, and enthusiastically discussed her enjoyment at watching horrific and disturbing videos in which monkeys suffered unimaginable agony and distress. These videos included placing an infant into a food blender; sealing an infant inside a jar with red ants; gouging out the eyes of an infant; and wrapping an infant tightly in sticky plaster in the shape of a ball, who was then kicked around. Examples of comments posted by Herron include:
Or watch them be blitzed in blenders and scalped, dicks cut off, set alight. If only my family and friends knew they'd never look at me the same again lol.
Torch its whole face off until it's just skull and melting skin haha.
We finally got our ants in a jar. Phenomenal!
Haven't you seen the video where they cellotape it into a ball? It's awesome.
Along with LeGresley, Herron was also involved in organising a poll amongst group members to suggest and then vote on which method of torture they wanted to see inflicted upon a monkey in the next video they were funding. The choices included sealing a monkey inside a jar with red ants, applying a painful substance to the wounds created by a cheese grater or gluing together various parts of a monkey's body.
Sarah Kite, co-founder and spokesperson for Action for Primates, stated: We welcome the sentence given to Herron and are extremely grateful to UK law enforcement for continuing to track down and bring to justice these sadistic and depraved people involved in online monkey torture groups. The perverted 'enjoyment' Herron and others obtained from facilitating and watching baby monkeys being abused and brutalised in the most sickening and horrifying ways shows a level of depravity that must never be tolerated.
Nina Jackel, Founder, Lady Freethinker, stated: The suffering endured by helpless, infant monkeys for online videos is heartbreaking, and the brutal nature of these acts is sickening. The perpetrators involved in the creation, funding, or sharing of animal torture content for human 'amusement' must be held accountable.
Members of these online torture groups are primarily active on platforms such as Telegram and get 'pleasure' from watching helpless and vulnerable infant monkeys in terror and pain, fighting for their lives. The extreme cruelty inflicted upon the baby monkeys included being set alight; having parts of their body cut off, including limbs, genitals, fingers and toes; their bones broken with a hammer; their heads squeezed in a clamp; beaten viciously; and having their eyes drilled out with a power tool.
The evidence obtained during the investigations by Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker has been given to various law enforcement agencies and spurred the BBC investigation and documentary about online monkey torture gangs—The Monkey Haters—which helped lead to the inclusion of animal cruelty in the UK Online Safety Act (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65951188 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65951188).
Disturbingly, many graphic and violent videos paid for by members in Telegram groups—depicting extreme violence and sexual abuse inflicted upon baby monkeys, including genital mutilation—have appeared on mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook.
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