明尼苏达州男子拍虐杀动物视频收费牟利 陪审团裁定16项罪名全部成立
明尼苏达州 Minneapolis — 美国司法部明尼苏达区联邦检察官办公室11月10日宣布，联邦陪审团11月9日裁定明尼苏达州 Carver 居民 Bryan Wesley Edison 全部16项虐杀动物（animal crushing）罪名成立，案件由联邦地区法官 John R. Tunheim 审理，量刑听证定于2027年3月3日举行。
Edison 于2025年9月4日被联邦大陪审团起诉。每项罪名最高可判7年监禁与25万美元罚款。
法庭文件与庭审证据显示，2022年7月30日前后至2023年10月19日，Edison 故意对动物造成严重身体伤害，把过程拍成视频发布到网上。他把活的小动物放给一只大型外来爬行动物攻击，有时任其吞食，小动物在溺水、挤压与肢解中长时间受折磨死亡。视频托管网站最终以违反暴力内容政策为由删除了他的各个频道。
检方指出，Edison 在频道的免费页面发布部分视频，收费页面提供更暴力的内容，会员价从0.99美元到99.99美元不等，最高价会员可自选虐杀情景，他通过该网站至少收到1,500美元付款。
2019年，总统签署经修订扩充的防虐待动物法（PACT Act），把故意碾压、焚烧、溺死、窒息、刺穿动物或令其遭受其他严重身体伤害列为联邦犯罪，狩猎、捕鱼、食品屠宰、安乐死、医学与科研及正常畜牧管理等情形除外。陪审团认定，Edison 的行为不属于任何一项例外。
明尼苏达区联邦检察官 Daniel N. Rosen 说，被告试图牟利，并以折磨无防御能力的动物为乐，其行为不人道且违法，这项有罪裁决正是其办公室在伸张正义。联邦调查局（FBI）Minneapolis 外勤办公室主管特工 Christopher D. Dotson 说，这类为残忍而记录残忍的犯罪还给观看内容的人造成严重心理伤害，FBI 将采取一切必要步骤调查并制止此类犯罪。
此案由 FBI 调查，助理联邦检察官 Jeanne Semivan 与 Campbell Warner 负责起诉。
（来源：美国司法部）
Minnesota Man Found Guilty on All 16 Counts of Animal Crushing for Filming Animal Torture Videos for Profit
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota announced on November 10 that a federal jury on November 9 found Bryan Wesley Edison, of Carver, Minnesota, guilty of all 16 counts of animal crushing, following a federal trial before U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim. His sentencing hearing is set for March 3, 2027.
Edison was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on September 4, 2025. He faces up to seven years in prison on each count and a maximum fine of $250,000.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, beginning on or before July 30, 2022, and continuing until at least October 19, 2023, Edison purposely caused serious bodily injury to animals, filmed himself doing so, and posted the videos to the internet. He placed smaller live animals with a large, exotic reptile for the reptile to attack and sometimes eat, and the animals suffered prolonged torture and death through drowning, crushing, and being dismembered alive. The video-hosting website ultimately removed each of his channels for violations of its policy on violence.
Prosecutors said Edison posted some videos on the free version of his channels and offered more violent videos on paid versions ranging from $0.99 to $99.99, with the highest-priced membership offering a choose-your-own-scenario option. He received at least $1,500 in payments through the website.
In 2019, the President signed the overhauled and expanded crush video statute under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which made it illegal to purposely crush, burn, drown, suffocate, impale, or otherwise subject living mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians to serious bodily injury, with exceptions including hunting, fishing, slaughtering animals for food, euthanasia, medical or scientific research, and normal animal husbandry. The jury found none of those exceptions applied to Edison's conduct.
"The defendant tried to make a profit and took pleasure in torturing defenseless animals. His actions were inhumane and illegal, and with this guilty verdict, my office is delivering justice," said U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. Christopher D. Dotson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Minneapolis Field Office, said the crimes were the documentation of cruelty for cruelty's sake, and that such videos cause serious psychological harm to those who consume the content as well as needless suffering to the animals.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeanne Semivan and Campbell Warner are prosecuting the case.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
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