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marmar

(79,759 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:33 PM Feb 22

Florida man sold videos on internet of dogs killed for sexual fetish, feds say


A Miami man is accused of selling sadistic internet videos in which someone stomps dogs and other animals to death to satisfy viewers’ sexual fetishes.

Francisco Javier Ravelo, 47, a former contractor for the U.S. Air Force in Florida, is charged with distributing videos over the internet that show animals — from dogs to primates — being severely injured or killed for sexual gratification on at least 42 occasions between September 2024 and February 2025, according to federal prosecutors.

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.

His case is the second time in South Florida that someone has been charged under this federal law. ...............(more)

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2026/02/21/animal-crushing-law-video-dogs-killed-florida/




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Florida man sold videos on internet of dogs killed for sexual fetish, feds say (Original Post) marmar Feb 22 OP
He needs to be put away for good. Haggard Celine Feb 22 #1
Monsters UpInArms Feb 22 #2
Monster BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 22 #3
Hope his mailing list is recorded. Kid Berwyn Feb 22 #4
Prosecute all the perverts that bought them too! TexasBushwhacker Feb 22 #5
Prosecute all the perverts that bought them too! TexasBushwhacker Feb 22 #6
Stuff like this makes me want off the planet. marble falls Feb 22 #7

Haggard Celine

(17,824 posts)
1. He needs to be put away for good.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:42 PM
Feb 22

People who do that shit to animals would do it to people as well. I hope they catch all of the bastards involved in this and nail them to the wall.

UpInArms

(55,001 posts)
2. Monsters
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:43 PM
Feb 22

There are monsters among us

These things need to be imprisoned for life, with no possibility of parole

Kid Berwyn

(24,433 posts)
4. Hope his mailing list is recorded.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:49 PM
Feb 22

And not destroyed, like so much evidence of the criminality wrought by these evil bastards.

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