Woman tortured animals on YouTube where she had over 20K subscribers: Cops

A Pennsylvania girl faces animal cruelty expenses after she tortured and killed a hen, pigeon, rabbit and frogs for views on her YouTube channel, the place she had greater than 20,000 subscribers, in response to native authorities.

Final week, Folks for the Moral Therapy of Animals (PETA) tipped off the Higher Darby Police Division (UDPD) a couple of social media “content material creator” who lived within the space and was posting movies of herself torturing and killing animals on YouTube.

Anigar Monsee, 28, of Higher Darby Township, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday on three counts of cruelty to animals, in response to native media studies. Monsee is being held on $200,000 bond on the Delaware County jail as she awaits a February 5 preliminary listening to.

PETA contacted police on Friday after the nonprofit was alerted to graphic movies posted on YouTube by an account known as Motheranddaughter that confirmed animal mutilation and torture, UDPD Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt informed native outlet Delco Instances.

The YouTube channel had a minimum of 4 movies the place reside animals had been harmed as a “scantily-clad girl” tortured rabbits, chickens, frogs and pigeons by slowly scalding, disemboweling and mutilating the animals whereas they had been nonetheless alive earlier than they had been ultimately killed and cooked, in response to the felony grievance obtained by the Delco Instances.

The Motheranddaughter account, which has posted 238 movies in complete, was nonetheless energetic as of Wednesday evening when considered by Newsweek.

Newsweek reached out through electronic mail on Wednesday evening to UDPD and PETA for remark. It was unclear on the time of publication whether or not Monsee had retained an legal professional who might communicate on her behalf.

“It is simply barbaric. It is inhumane that somebody might do this,” Bernhardt mentioned in a press release to the Delco Instances. “She’s going to reply to all 4 of the incidents. Detectives seemed into it and charged her. Hopefully it is going to ship a message that that is cruelty.”

The police superintendent mentioned what was much more disturbing was “the truth that you might be soliciting and individuals are encouraging this.”

UDPD investigators questioned Monsee on Friday, when she recognized herself as the lady within the movies.

A video known as “Cooking fortunate” that was posted on the channel not too long ago exhibits a girl, recognized as Monsee within the courtroom paperwork, with a reside hen in a sink.

Monsee repeatedly remarked on the variety of views and likes whereas soliciting extra earlier than she harmed the fowl. For about 10 minutes, she forcefully handles the struggling and frantic animal and is seen plucking feathers from its neck earlier than she begins chopping on the fowl’s throat with knives, the felony grievance states. Because the hen tries to flee and jumps out of the sink, Monsee then will get on the counter and holds the fowl down along with her ft as she continues slicing its neck, in response to the courtroom paperwork.

In a video known as “prepare dinner with Ani (cooking frogs and fufu)” that was posted in September 2023, Monsee is proven with three reside frogs earlier than she begins to carve open one’s abdomen and take away the organs.

She will be heard saying that the frog remains to be alive, and that it was “dancing.”

Monsee then did the identical to the opposite two frogs, who had been additionally alive. She will be seen singing to the third frog, “Completely happy demise day” to the tune of “Completely happy Birthday.”

In a February 2023 video, known as “Cooking Peter (Rabbit),” Monsee says she could not kill the reside white rabbit herself, so she known as a person whom she identifies as her “buddy” to do the deed. Monsee is heard saying “I really like you” and “Mommy’s going to overlook you” to the reside and aware rabbit earlier than the person is seen slashing the animal’s neck. The rabbit thrashes round and jumps out of the sink whereas bleeding earlier than it dies.

Every of the graphic clips has amassed hundreds of views and dozens of feedback on every.