A man was sentenced Wednesday in the United States to 27 years in prison for paying a woman in Venezuela to make sadistic sex videos, in one of which he demanded that a victim be killed, the Justice Department reported.
Sean Fiore, 38, pleaded guilty in October 2021 to calling for a person to be kidnapped and killed abroad, murder-for-hire and child pornography.
“The defendant paid for and planned unspeakably heinous and horrific videos of a child being tormented and an adult sadistically abused,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement.
According to court documents, Fiore paid a woman in Venezuela $600 to make a video sadistically abusing a preteen.
Once received, he paid the woman approximately 4,000 dollars (3,600 euros) for another video, this time for kidnapping “a slave”, showing his brutal abuse and killing him.
Ordered to mistreat the victim
Fiore sent the woman a 600-word script detailing what he wanted to appear in the video, including punching and kicking the victim, burning him with cigarettes, having them urinate and defecate on him, stuffing feces into his mouth. They will wrap his head with plastic and suffocate him to death by sitting on his face.
Finally Fiore received a 58-minute video in which a man appeared to be dead.
In addition, according to court documents, in May 2019 Fiore had videos and images in which they were seen sadistic sexual abuse of preadolescent minors.
“It is hard to imagine conduct more depraved than Sean Fiore’s,” said US Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest.
Colombian Moraima Escarlet Vásquez Flores, 39, the woman accused of sending the videos to Fiore, was arrested in Colombia in September 2020 and is awaiting extradition to the United States.