A veterinarian in Florida has been sentenced to 272 months behind bars for collecting child pornography and recording himself sexually abusing dogs.
Prentiss Madden was arrested in March and pleaded guilty a few months later in July to child pornography and animal cruelty charges, according to prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Prosecutors said the 40-year-old had thousands of graphic images showing male infants and toddlers engaged in sex with adults and that he made several videos of himself having sex with dogs, which he shared online and through social media. He received many of the child porn images and videos via internet chats, where he also frequently discussed sexually abusing children.
Madden previously served as the medical director of Caring Hands Animal Hospital in Aventura, but he was fired when officials there caught wind of the investigation into his illicit behavior.
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