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.
According to court documents and statements made in court during the change of plea hearing, Fourez paid thousands of dollars to commission bespoke sexual torture videos of monkeys, and later she distributed the obscene crush videos over the Internet.
Fourez now faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for the conspiracy charge and a maximum penalty of seven years in prison for the distribution charge, as well as a fine of up to $500,000.
