Wannabe influencer allegedly tortured, killed animals live on YouTube for likes
A wannabe influencer was arrested in Pennsylvania after she allegedly tortured and killed animals live on YouTube to gain more social media followers, cops said.
Anigar Monsee, 28, was slapped with a slew of animal cruelty charges last week over four livestream videos she posted to her channel that allegedly showed her mutilating a live chicken, pigeon, rabbit, and frogs, the Daily Times reported.
Monsee, who in some of the videos appeared scantily clad, allegedly solicited more likes and followers from her 20,000 subscribers as she hacked at the animals in the various livestreams, according to a criminal complaint.
“It’s just barbaric. It’s inhumane that someone could do that,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said, adding that it was even more disturbing “the fact that you are soliciting and people are encouraging this.”
Her latest video titled “Cooking lucky”, which was posted last Friday just before her arrest, allegedly showed Monsee using a knife to slice a chicken’s neck over a kitchen sink as the distressed animal tried to flee, police said.
Other clips posted last August and September allegedly showed Monsee dismembering several frogs and plucking a live pigeon’s feathers before running the bird’s head under scalding water and then sawing it off.
In a fourth video, which lasted 30 minutes, Monsee is accused of using a “dull knife” to torture a rabbit to death, police said.
Authorities said they were made aware of the sick videos last week by the animal activist group PETA.
Monsee, whose YouTube page appears to have now been deleted, was slapped with four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.
She is currently being held at the Delaware County Jail on a $200,000 bond.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.