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Giancarlo Morelli, 39, entered a guilty plea to a count of conspiring to create and distribute animal crush videos as part of a deal with prosecutors, who dropped all additional charges

A judge sentenced Morelli to 48 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release

Morelli is the father of a 9-year-old and sole caretaker of his 79-year-old mother

A New Jersey man who purchased animal torture videos depicting the sexual abuse and genital mutilation of monkeys was sentenced in federal court earlier this month.

Giancarlo Morelli, 39, will serve 48 months in a New Jersey federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to a copy of the criminal judgment obtained by PEOPLE. He'll also be fined $25,000.

The defendant had initially been charged wi

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