THE LOWEST OF THE LOW

Why humans are the cruelest of all living things; what kind of sickos get their sexual gratification by watching animals being tortured to death?

No punishment is too severe for the two perpetrators of these unspeakable cruelties to innocent animals. And the sicko perverts who get their jollies by watching animals tortured to death should have their peckers or clits, whichever is applicable, torn from their sorry worthless bodies.

A lot of people ridicule and malign People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but with their excesses aside, the members of PETA do good works and this is just one example.

COUPLE ACCUSED OF USING MEAT CLEAVER, KNIVES TO TORTURE ANIMALS
By Robert Stanton

Houston Chronicle
August 20, 2012

Criminal judges see the very worst society has to offer. So when a Harris County magistrate judge halted the reading of court documents during a hearing last week because the details were too graphic it was clear this was no ordinary case.

The court proceeding was for a Houston man and a woman who are accused of profiting from videotaping the torture and death of several pets, using meat cleavers and other knives.

Ashley Nicole Richards, 21, and Brent Wayne Justice, 51, are accused of posting videos of the killings online for people who use the violence for sexual gratification. They have been charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals.

The suspects appeared Monday before state District Judge Shawna L. Reagin, who ordered the pair to remain jailed.

Prosecutors in court said that throughout 2010 Richards received emails from clients who offered to pay her to provide so-called "crush" videos of tortured animals for their sexual gratification.

In one of the videotapes, Richards can be seen torturing a pit bull puppy, according to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 16 in the case. She allegedly bound the puppy's mouth with tape and cut its back leg with a meat cleaver. She then cut the back of the dog's neck and used a different knife to cut the underside of its neck, prosecutors said.

The dog was bleeding and struggling when Richards used the meat cleaver to sever its head from the body, a prosecutor told a magistrate during the probable cause hearing last week, prompting the judge to stop further reading of details in the case.

Houston Humane Society spokeswoman Monica Schmidt said she has never heard of a case like this in her four years in animal rights.

"In the back of my mind, I've heard that something like this existed, but I never dreamed that my city would be where this horrible abuse would be taking place," Schmidt said. "I think this takes animal cruelty to a whole different level of what we're used to seeing in Houston."

Investigators seized multiple videos made by Richards and Justice of various animals being tortured, according to prosecutors. In one of the videos, Richards allegedly stomped on a cat's eye with a shoe heel.

The videotapes allegedly were recorded at a location on Forum Park Drive in Houston.

During an interview with investigators, Justice admitted he videotaped Richards torturing the animals and killing the pit bull puppy, according to prosecutors. In one of the videos, Justice allegedly placed a knife on the floor within Richards' reach as she tormented an animal.

The case was reported to Houston authorities by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"Thanks to an email from a concerned member of the public who notified PETA about gruesome videos showing puppies, kittens, rabbits, mice and other animals being tortured and killed, PETA was able to determine that the alleged producers of the videos lived in Houston, and we notified local authorities," PETA spokes- woman Shakira Croce said in an email. "Just two days later, the Houston Police Department made two arrests in connection with the horrific crimes."