Two people in North Carolina pleaded guilty to their part in an international criminal operation that produced videos of animals being tortured and killed.
The US Justice Department announced this week that Mary Longoria of Brunswick County and Patrick Naylor of Hoke County pleaded guilty to conspiring to create and distribute videos of monkeys being crushed and sexually abused overseas.
Last year the Justice Department arrested 11 people across the country who were part of an online group using Telegram to plan and coordinate these videos depicting monkeys being tortured, sexually abused and killed…