An Alabama woman – who allegedly worked with co-conspirators to share and fund sadistic torture videos of monkeys in private groups online – has pleaded guilty “to conspiracy to create and distribute animal crushing videos.”
Stacey Storey, otherwise known as “Sadistic” online, was reportedly a major contributor to the Telegram group “Ape’s Cage,” which was revealed in a BBC investigation supported by Lady Freethinker’s discoveries.
Over the years, Storey allegedly orchestrated the creation of many horrific videos by sending money to co-conspirators abroad who would film them. Some of these included putting a monkey in a blender and torturing another with a power drill. In 2022, she reportedly coordinated content exhibiting the sodomy of a monkey, which resulted in their death.
Thankfully, in 2023, authorities seized her electronic devices, which revealed “over 675 videos and 11,000 images” of torture-based content.
One of her U.S.-based conspirators – Michael Macartney – pled guilty in April 2024 and was sentenced to only three and a half years in prison, while two more – Jeffrey Radtke and Drexel Venero – await their sentences in 2025.
Storey’s sentencing is set for June 10, and she could serve a maximum of five years in prison.
Lady Freethinker is grateful for these charges that come after years of investigating and campaigning against the sadistic world of animal torture groups. Please sign our petition urging Telegram to remove this abhorrent cruelty from its platform and prevent innocent creatures from being tortured or killed.
