The crocodile expert faces charges including eight counts of bestiality, punishable by up to three years, four counts of possessing and distributing child abuse material, with a maximum penalty of 10 years, and 37 counts of aggravated animal cruelty, carrying a maximum sentence of five years each, The Sun reported.
‘I had repressed it’
In one of the posts, Britton wrote, “I had repressed it. In the last few years I let it out again and now I can’t stop. I don’t want to.”
One month after the video was posted, authorities conducted a raid at his residence in Darwin and took him into custody.
They discovered over a dozen files of child abuse material on one of his laptops.
‘Rapist, torturer, murderer’: Protestors demand
Protestors stood with placards demanding death penalty for Britton even though the capital punishment has been abolished in Australia.
“Death penalty for Adam Britton,” a placard read.
“Rapist, torturer, murderer,” read another.
“He’s got to be punished so people don’t think that animals are something that can be exploited and abused. We realise [the death penalty] isn’t going to happen… but incarcerated forever would be my personal choice,” a protestor said.
Britton’s defense team informed the court that he had been affected by “paraphilia” during the entire two-year period when these serious offenses occurred. It is a condition in which a person regularly experiences strong sexual fantasies involving unusual objects, places, situations, or behaviors.
