"Francisco Javier Ravelo, 36, a former contractor for the U.S. Air Force in Florida, admitted in Miami federal court that he distributed videos over the internet that showed someone mutilating the private parts of primates for sexual gratification on at least 42 occasions between September 2024 and February 2025."
"Ravelo was charged last October under a federal law that was initially passed in 2010 to focus on people producing and distributing "obscene" social media videos showing animals being seriously harmed for the sexual pleasure of viewers, an internet trend known as animal crushing."
"In Ravelo's case, the animals were "purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury," according to a charging document."
Francisco Javier Ravelo, a 36-year-old mechanical engineering graduate and former Air Force contractor from Coral Gables, pleaded guilty to distributing animal crush videos depicting primates being mutilated for sexual gratification. Between September 2024 and February 2025, he distributed such videos on at least 42 occasions. The animals in the videos were purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or subjected to serious bodily injury. Ravelo was prosecuted under a federal law enacted in 2010 targeting the production and distribution of obscene videos showing animals being seriously harmed for viewers' sexual pleasure. He faces sentencing on May 21 before U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz, with a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.
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