Overview
- Amanda Leigh Fourez, who pleaded guilty on April 15, admitted paying thousands of dollars to have sexual torture videos of monkeys made for private online groups.
- Prosecutors say she later distributed the recordings, kept an archive, and used closed chat and payment channels to control who could access them.
- Authorities describe the videos as showing extreme cruelty, including monkeys burned alive and genitals mutilated, created to satisfy a fetish market.
- HSI New Orleans’ Cyber and Human Exploitation unit and the FBI led the investigation, and Department of Justice attorneys are prosecuting the case.
- Fourez faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy, up to seven years for distribution, and fines up to $500,000 under federal statutes.