India, April 29 -- An Illinois woman has pleaded guilty to distributing "violent" and "sexual" videos of monkeys being tortured online, federal authorities have said. Amanda Leigh Fourez, an Illinois resident, entered a guilty plea earlier this month to distributing the videos in online chat groups.

ICE wrote on X, "Amanda Leigh Fourez, a U.S. citizen from Illinois, paid thousands of dollars to have others make sexual torture videos involving adult and baby monkeys for people in deranged online chat groups.Known as "animal crush videos," they show real monkeys being burned alive and having their genitals mutilated. She pleaded guilty April 15 following an ICE @HSINewOrleans and FBI joint investigation."

The US Department of Justice said...