{"id":195316,"date":"2026-03-17T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:33:14","slug":"florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-distributing-videos-of-monkey-sexual-torture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195316\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man pleads guilty to distributing videos of monkey sexual torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> announced Tuesday that a Florida resident pleaded guilty to showing videos of monkey sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE INVESTIGATION LEADS TO GUILTY PLEA IN MONKEY SEXUAL TORTURE CASE,\u201d ICE wrote on the social media platform, X.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Francisco Javier Ravelo pleaded guilty to distributing videos of adult and baby monkeys being mutilated and physically tortured, according to an ICE investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRavelo created and administered online chat groups dedicated to torturing monkeys \u2014 in violation of the federal animal crushing statute,\u201d ICE said.<\/p>\n

The agency said that Ravelo personally distributed over 40 videos of the sexual abuse and torture of the monkeys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case is deeply disturbing,\u201d U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement. \u201cAs a former state court trial judge who presided over domestic violence cases, I was trained to recognize lethality factors, warning signs that violence is escalating. Deliberate cruelty to animals is one of the clearest red flags.”<\/p>\n

Ravelo faces a maximum penalty of seven years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cOur team worked diligently to ensure Ravelo was held accountable for his egregious crimes and to prevent further harm,\u201d said acting Special Agent in Charge Matt Wright of Homeland Security Investigations. \u201cWe are grateful for the collaboration that brought this case to resolution and Ravelo to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday that a Florida resident pleaded guilty to showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-195316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}