A New Jersey man was sentenced for his role as the middleman in a monkey torture ring where people paid for repulsive “monkey crushing” videos depicting the young chimps being physically and sexually abused by a child.

Giancarlo Morelli was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to create and distribute the horrific fetish films to would-be buyers, according to the US Department of Justice . 3

Morelli and co-conspirator Nicholas T. Dryden of Cincinnati were cuffed in June 2024. The duo was caught communicating in private online groups and chats dedicated to monkey torture and mutilation videos between March and April 2023, according to prosecutors.

Philip Colt Moss , an attorney from Iowa, was arrested in August and slapped with related charges.

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