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Myrtle Seashore, S.C. – Tiger King villain and Myrtle Seashore Safari operator Bhagavan “Document” Antle used to be sentenced nowadays in Frederick County Circuit Courtroom in Virginia to a $10,000 superb, a two-year suspended sentence, 5 years of probation, and a five-year ban on operating with, buying and selling, possessing, or enticing in different actions with non-native unique natural world for 2 counts of natural world trafficking and two counts of conspiracy to devote natural world trafficking below Virginia legislation. Separate federal fees are pending. Beneath, please discover a observation from PETA Basis Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler:
Antle escaped a jail sentence this time, however he’s nonetheless dealing with more than one federal fees for alleged cash laundering and alleged natural world trafficking of animals, together with endangered cheetahs and a chimpanzee. In keeping with his convictions in Virginia and his years of mistreating animals, together with tearing child large cats, chimpanzees, and different animals clear of their moms for use in public encounters, PETA is looking on federal government to terminate the licenses that stay his sleazy roadside zoo running.
Extra information about Antle’s exploitation of animals are to be had right here.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to make use of for leisure or abuse in another manner”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please discuss with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.