

That prompted an investigation by the U.S. Then we find out it’s a lot worse than we thought."Īccording to the Miami Herald, the file-sharing company Dropbox tipped off authorities that someone with an IP address matching Madden's had received more than 1,500 files of suspected child pornography. "At first, we thought no dogs were ever harmed there. "I thought he was great," Pruch tells New Times. That is, until Madden was arrested in March on charges of alleged animal abuse and possession of child pornography. Prentiss Madden, the hospital's director. Scott Pruch and his wife, Robin Tobias, referred scores of friends and stray dogs to Caring Hands Animal Clinic in Aventura and the care of Dr. Prentiss Madden was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison, the maximum punishment allowed under sentencing guidelines, by U.S. Sex with animals had been legal in the Netherlands, as long as it could be proven the animals were not injured.Update: On Friday, October 8, Dr. It was not immediately clear how soon the law would go into effect. The bill was introduced in April 2007 and passed the lower house in July 2008, but took time to make its way through the upper house to final approval.

Given the illicit nature of the product, precise figures on animal pornography video sales are difficult to find, but the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, in a 2007 survey, found that distributors in the Netherlands were responsible for some 80 percent of bestiality videos worldwide. The new law bans human sex with animals, including in private situations where the animals are not injured, and prohibits the production or distribution of animal pornography, a summary of the law posted on the upper chamber’s website said.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved Tuesday by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.
