Andrew Tate Accused of Possessing Bestiality Porn and Sexualised Videos Involving a Child

There are some court filings you wish you had never read. Newly public documents in Andrew Tate’s US extradition case contain deeply disturbing allegations involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, including material depicting sexual acts involving a horse and an eel. Tate denies wrongdoing, and the allegations have not yet been tested at trial.  

Britain submitted the documents as it seeks Tate’s extradition from the United States. The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised 19 additional charges against Tate relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, alongside further charges of rape, trafficking and assault.

The pair claim their online personas are characters and not a reflection of their true personalities.

They face a total of 59 charges brought by British authorities relating to four alleged victims between July 2010 and ​August 2017.

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According to the extradition material, investigators allegedly found separate extreme pornographic material depicting sexual intercourse with a live horse and with a live eel on devices attributed to Tate. Yes, those are apparently two separate allegations.   And somehow, it gets worse.

One section of the filing alleges Tate made 10 Category B and 18 Category C indecent images or videos of a female child. The filing describes a representative Category B video showing Tate sitting on a bed with a girl wearing lingerie and holding what appeared to be a championship belt. The filing alleges that the child kissed Tate’s neck before an adult woman joined them, with the girl presented in a sexualised context.

Separate WhatsApp evidence cited by investigators is even more disturbing. Prosecutors allege Tate discussed the girl performing webcam content for money, shared sexual material involving her and referred to receiving payments connected to that material. Messages reproduced in the filing also appear to show Tate acknowledging that she was legally too young. These remain prosecution allegations, not findings of guilt.  

What stands out is not that Hartley-Brewer’s 2022 declaration has aged badly. It is that Tate was already an openly misogynistic and deeply controversial figure when parts of the right decided he was someone worth championing. Responding to Greta Thunberg’s exchange with Tate, Hartley-Brewer announced that she would choose Tate’s life “every single time” over that of the teenage climate activist, whom she called a “half-educated, autistic, doom-mongering eco-cultist.”

One wonders whether that remains the hill she wants to occupy. There has always been something revealing about the amount of grace Tate receives from people determined to defend his public persona. The question now is what, exactly, would constitute a dealbreaker. Because once allegations involving children and bestiality enter the conversation, arguing about whether somebody likes Greta Thunberg starts looking spectacularly beside the point.

The law presumes Tate innocent unless prosecutors prove the allegations. His supporters, however, cannot simply pretend those allegations do not exist. The documents are now public, and what they allege is exceptionally serious.