A video apparently showing a teenage girl throwing puppies into a river has sparked outrage online.
The images were originally uploaded via a YouTube account on a site called Liveleak. It appears to show a young girl with long blonde hair in a red hooded top picking up newborn puppies by the scruff of the neck and hurling them into a fast-flowing river. It is not clear whether the clip is a hoax following the furore created by CCTV footage of Mary Bale, a woman from Coventry, who was caught on camera putting a cat in a wheelie bin.
Liveleak has disabled its comment facility to prevent users from publicizing personal information but other forum sites were determined to track her down. Some comments claim to have identified the girl as being from the town of Bugojno in Central Bosnia, which has an estimated population of 50,000. The river Vrbas flows through the town which is a favorite hunting spot with dense forest. Calls to identify the teenage girl were led by 4Chan – an internet forum which claims to have been the first to identify Miss Bale. The 45 year-old received death threats and was given police protection after her employer and home address were published on the internet.
She later apologized profusely for her actions describing them as “out of character”. A spokesman for the animal welfare group PETA said they had alerted “local activists” in Bosnia to the video. Ashley Fruno said: “Video-sharing sites have unfortunately allowed uncaring individuals to publicize cruelty they inflict on animals.”
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People like this make me sick….