The group attempted once again. “Million tears” had actually been booted by its host, however the group reconstituted on another platform and relabelled itself “the trail of trillion tears.” They connected to another Indonesian videographer and requested for a more graphic variation of the exact same video. This variation, more vicious than the last, still didn’t please. As one of the Americans presumably stated to another, “honey that’s not what you asked for. Thats the village idiot version. But I’m talking with someone about getting a good vo [videographer] to do it.”

Arrests continue

In 2021, somebody dripped interactions from the “million tears” group to animals rights companies like Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates, which handed it over to authorities. Still, it took numerous years to jail and prosecute the abuse group’s leaders.

In 2024, among these leaders– Ronald Bedra of Ohio– pled guilty to commissioning the videos and to sending by mail “a thumb drive containing 64 videos of monkey torture to a co-conspirator in Wisconsin.” His mom, in a sentencing letter to the judge, stated that her kid should “have been undergoing some mental crisis when he decided to create the website.” As a young boy, he had actually enjoyed all of the household animals, she stated, even offering a funeral service for a fish.

Bedra was sentenced late in 2015 to 54 months in jail. According to letters from member of the family, he has actually likewise lost his task, his better half, and his kids.

In April 2025, 2 more supposed co-conspirators were prosecuted and consequently apprehended; their cases were unsealed just today. 2 other co-conspirators from this group still seem uncharged.

In May 2025, 11 other Americans were prosecuted for their involvement in monkey abuse groups, though they appear to come from a various network. This group presumably “paid a minor in Indonesia to commit the requested acts on camera.”

When it comes to the Indonesian side of this formula, arrests have actually been taking place there, too. Following problems from animal rights groups, cops in Indonesia have actually apprehended several videographers over the last 2 years.

Update: Showing the global nature of these abuse groups, the Scottish Sun simply ran a rather lurid piece about the “sadistic Scots mum jailed for helping to run a horrific global monkey torture network.” The 39-year-old was obviously captured after United States authorities separated another monkey abusing network based around contracting out the abuse to Indonesia.