A truck driver from Kent County, Michigan, who’s now residing in Ohio, was arrested for sexually assaulting canine and creating graphic torture movies that he then distributed on-line.
Lucas VanWoert, 25, has been charged with making animal torture movies and distributing obscene supplies after Australian authorities tipped off American authorities.
In line with the indictment, the investigation started in Australia on April 22 of this 12 months. Authorities within the nation mentioned a 51-year-old man was arrested for bestiality, animal cruelty, and baby exploitation. Officers mentioned they found two accounts for a web based platform the place the person was often known as a ‘high-level’ producer of animal cruelty movies throughout a search of his units and residential.
In the course of the search, they found quite a few photos and movies of animal cruelty created in 2020 by an unknown man identified solely as ‘Graves,’ whom police later recognized as VanWoert.
In line with authorities, the 2 males exchanged over 700 recordsdata, all of which depicted animal abuse. ‘Graves’ recorded many of those recordsdata within the sleeper part of a tractor-trailer and confirmed a white man with a beard, a particular tattoo on his bicep, and a canine laying subsequent to him. This canine’s mouth was tied shut.
This canine was sexually abused and tortured in obscene and graphic methods, in accordance with the indictment.
VanWoert admitted to the costs throughout an interview with cops. He admitted to performing intercourse acts, beating and strangling a canine whereas in Grand Rapids, and disposing of the canine’s physique in a dumpster.
Throughout a search at his present residence in Ohio, cops found three canine sick and a fourth canine buried within the yard.
Authorities launched details about a number of recovered recordsdata, however they’re far too graphic to be printed. They depict the canine being tortured unimaginably, having organs eliminated, and being sexually assaulted with a knife. Two of the movies confirmed the canine nonetheless respiration, indicating that it was nonetheless alive whereas being subjected to the horrific acts.
“I’m going to be sick. This simply doesn’t sound like my son, not in my wildest goals. Lucas has all the time been an enormous animal-rights individual. We all the time cherished animals. He tried to guard animals.” VanWoert’s mom mentioned responding to her son’s arrest, as per The Detroit Information.
The costs towards VanWoert embody 4 counts of constructing animal torture movies and 4 counts of disseminating them. A seven-year federal jail sentence might be imposed on him. He’s presently being held with out bond at Toledo’s Lucas County Correctional Facility.
