It was only last year when the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) discovered that one of the websites catering to the sexual perversion was actually based in the country.
Previously, the production of the animal torture videos was attributed mainly to foreign countries where crush fetishists – the buyers of these violent videos –abound. The Ridons’ indictment for the sale and production of crush videos under the animal welfare laws is a first in the Philippines, where this form of sexual perversion is virtually unheard of, and where willful cruelty to animals, particularly household pets, is considered an abomination. The animal’s excretions, blood and innards oozing out of its small body as it is being crushed to death are shown in grisly detail and are punctuated by the creature’s squeals of pain. The torture of small animals is intentionally stretched for several minutes to an hour. In the Ridon’s crush video website, potential video buyers can choose what the “animal torturers,” mostly underage girls, should be wearing and which small creature they could stomp on or torture to death. They have since posted bail of P104,000 each for their provisional liberty.
9147 or the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Act before San Fernando, La Union Regional Trial Court Judge Alpino Florendo. 8485 or the Animal Welfare Act, and Republic Act No. The Ridon couple was recently arrested and indicted for violation of Republic Act No. The video can fetch anywhere from US$80 to US$200 each. These are only some of the brutal and gruesome images in so-called crush videos that are allegedly produced and sold overseas by Filipino couple Victor and Dorma Ridon over the Internet.
A small monkey kicked viciously until it dies. A rabbit having its ears ripped off and being flayed alive. Young girls in lingerie and high-heeled shoes kicking a dog to death and gouging its eyes out with their stiletto heels.