Florida: Three teenage girls repeatedly kick and throw rabbit against wall while laughing and recording for Snapchat

FLORIDA -- Deputies say 3 teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 14 were arrested Saturday and charged with felony animal cruelty after a video of them throwing a bunny against a wall, repeatedly, surface on social media.

According to the Nassau County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a home on Lina Road in Nassauville Saturday morning, where they found the injured bunny.

In the video, you can hear the girls laughing as each of them take a turn throwing and kicking the bunny.

The Snapchat caption reads: She threw her bunny.

 

First Coast News stopped by where deputies told us the incident happened at. A woman and her teenage daughter answered the door.

"It wasn't my child," the woman said.

The woman, who would not give us her name, admitted the incident happened in her home. She said she was not aware it was going on.

 

"They weren't related to us in anyway," the woman said.

The woman claimed the three girls are her daughter's friends and that her child was asleep when the incident happened.

The video also found its way to Facebook where the 26 second clip was viewed and shared hundreds of times.

"My heart dropped. I almost got sick to my stomach... I stopped the video and I started crying," neighbor Katie Sparkman said.

The bunny was handed over to the Nassau County Animal Services.

   
The shelter says the bunny suffered a fractured leg but was safe, according to a post on the group's Facebook page.

Sparkman said she planned to donate items to the shelter to help the bunny through the recovery process.

"... bring him bedding, food, carrots, lettuce, treats," said Sparkman.

Sparkman said one of the suspects apologized on Facebook, then deactivated her page.

"Sorry to me is just not enough," said Sparkman.

Several people have expressed interest in adopting the bunny, bthe NCAS says the bunny would not be available for adoption any time soon.

(First Coast news - May 29, 2016)

Why It's Not "Just A Rabbit" The FBI has, for decades, recognized that animal abuse is a gateway crime to other serious crimes such as rape and murder. This is why animal lovers are up in arms about these "girls" - not even old enough to be referred to as women - and what they did REPEATEDLY for fun.  To derive pleasure from the suffering and pain of others, even small animals, is sociopathic behavior. Child Killer: Brenda Spencer is notorious for shooting a gun into a crowd of children. Eleven children were hit by her bullets with two dying. When she was a child, Spencer lit the tails of cats and dogs, which she found in the neighborhood, on fire Three Teen Girls in Florida: Videotaped themselves repeatedly kicking and throwing a rabbit against the bedroom wall, while laughing and videotaping the abuse and torture. They were so proud of themselves they posted the 'torture porn' on Snapchat, expecting viewers to enjoy watching the abuse as much as they enjoyed inflicting the abuse on a defenseless creature. Child Killer: Ian Brady boasted that he killed his first cat aged just ten. As a child, he tortured and killed animals, stoning dogs and cutting the heads off rabbits. He burnt a cat alive. He later killed five children.