A 28-year-old woman with aspirations of becoming an influencer has been arrested in Pennsylvania. Authorities discovered disturbing videos on her YouTube channel where she allegedly tortured and killed animals in an attempt to gain more social media followers.
Anigar Monsee is now facing multiple charges of animal cruelty after the release of four livestream videos that showed her mutilating a live chicken, pigeon, rabbit, and frogs, according to the New York Post.
In the videos, Monsee, at times dressed provocatively, reportedly sought more likes and followers from her 20,000 subscribers as she engaged in acts of violence against the animals.
According to the criminal complaint, she used various weapons to harm the animals while broadcasting the acts live.
The most recent video, titled “Cooking lucky,” allegedly depicted Monsee slicing a chicken’s neck with a knife over a kitchen sink as the distressed animal struggled to escape, as reported by the New York Post.
Law enforcement officials also noted that previous clips posted in August and September showed Monsee dismembering frogs and plucking feathers from a live pigeon before subjecting it to scalding water and then decapitating it.
In a separate 30-minute video, Monsee is accused of using a blunt knife to torture a rabbit to death. The Upper Darby Police were alerted to the disturbing videos by the animal activist group PETA.
Monsee’s YouTube channel has since been deleted. She currently faces four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and is being held at the Delaware County Jail on a $200,000 bond, as reported by the New York Post.
As of now, YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, has not responded to requests for comment on the matter.
