Miami, Florida – Prentiss K. Madden, a licensed veterinarian who recorded himself sexually abusing dogs and ‘animal crushing’ shared the bestiality videos on-line, and collected on-line child pornography, pled guilty today in Miami federal court.
During the hearing, Madden admitted that he repeatedly accessed a Dropbox account containing images of child pornography, received child pornography photographs and videos through social media chats, talked about child sexual abuse during chats, and stored thousands of child pornography images in his Dropbox account and cellular telephones. Madden also admitted that he produced videos of himself engaged in sexual activity with dogs and shared them with others in chats.
Madden kept these bestiality videos, as well as chats about bestiality, in his cellular telephones.
Local media spoke to people in the neighborhood at the time of his arrest who were shocked to learn of the allegations against Madden.
Madden’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 8, 2021, at 11:30 a.m., before Judge Martinez. Madden faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, and a maximum penalty of 87 years in prison.