Adam Britton, a crocodile specialist from Darwin has pleaded guilty to dozens of charges of bestiality involving the torture, rape, and killing of pet dogs.
Britton has built an international reputation for his work on crocodiles over decades, since his arrest last year.
Britton is facing 60 charges relating to bestiality and possessing, accessing, and transmitting child abuse material.
During a joint NT Police and Australian Federal Police raid, they found several videos portraying animal cruelty which resulted in his arrest.
Police also located 15 child abuse material files on his laptop.
Speaking of the case at the Supreme Court today, Chief Justice Michael Grant described the details as “acts that could only be described as grotesque cruelty which is both confronting and distressing”.
“Which in my assessment have the potential to cause nervous shock or some other adverse psychological reaction to a person exposed to those details,” he said.
Last year, police seized 44 items including computers, mobile telephones, cameras, external hard drives, tools, weapons, dog paraphernalia, and sex toys from him.
Dozens of Britton’s online messages to other users were aired to the court detailing how he carried out his despicable operation and how he acquired dogs.