A Carver, Minnesota, man was convicted of 16 counts of animal crushing, according to United States Attorney Daniel Rosen.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Bryan Wesley Edison filmed himself causing serious bodily injury to animals and posted to the videos to a video-hosting website. In some of his videos, smaller animals would suffer prolonged torture and death.
Several free versions of the videos were posted to his channels; however, he also sold more violent videos — with titles including “Snapping Turtle Gives Rat a Slow Death” and “Dog mauls guinea pig on membership page” — that ranged from $0.99 to $99.99. Edison received at least $1,500 in payments from those videos…