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Home > Action Alerts > Pure Cowardice: Wild Animal Tortured, Repeatedly Set on Fire by Gleeful TormentorsPlease respond promptly and forward widely. It is one of the most cowardly and pathetic acts of cruelty to animals ever seen by PETA caseworkers. And it was all caught on videotape, apparently by the abusers themselves. The video footage shows that several individuals gleefully doused a large turtle in gasoline and then set her on fire. They watched, laughing all the while, as the animal frantically crawled about in vain attempts to escape her suffering and her tormentors. They eventually doused her with a bucket of water in order to extinguish the flames that engulfed her. As she lay there charred and motionless, they repeated the sadistic process, again dousing her in gasoline and setting her on fire, and again, the burning animal flailed about frantically, to the delight of her attackers. The video footage ends at that point, and the animal's ultimate fate is unknown—but we doubt that she survived. View the video footage (warning: this footage is extremely graphic). Hawley City Prosecutor Kevin Miller has been assigned to prosecute Ross, and Assistant Clay County Attorney Jenel Wavra will handle the case against the juveniles. Please thank Miller and Wavra in advance for their vigorous pursuit of these charges and respectfully remind them that people who abuse animals rarely do so only once and almost never stop there. Politely explain that the safety of the community’s human and nonhuman residents may well be at stake and ask that, if the defendants are found guilty, they work with the courts to take the following actions: • Incarcerate the defendants for 90 days, the maximum period allowed by law. Impolite correspondence will detract from the consideration of our requests. The Honorable Kevin Miller Jenel Wavra, Assistant County Attorney kd 8235
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