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  • 2014-01-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Girl Throws Puppies Into River (en)
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  • This video of a girl (described as a young Cruella De Vil) in a red hoodie plucking several whining puppies from a bucket and flinging them into a swift-moving river with apparent gusto while exclaiming whee prompted widespread outrage throughout the international community when it first surfaced in mid-2010. Through the efforts of both online investigators and local police officials, the girl shown in the video was eventually tracked down, identified, and questioned by police in the Bosnian city of Bugojno. Ultimately, though, because the girl was too young, Bosnian officials were precluded from publicly identifying or prosecuting her. After the incident was publicized in the international media, a 75-year-old woman came forward and claimed that she had rescued five of the six puppies who had been flung into the water and put them up for adoption, but others disputed her claim: A video was posted to YouTube that purportedly offered an apology from the girl in question and presented the excuse that she had attempted to dispatch the puppies via drowning because they were ill: This video continues to resurface from time to time along with calls for justice to be meted out against the girl in the red hoodie, but the time for that is long past: law enforcement authorities have already found and dealt with the girl as they believed appropriate under local law, so there is nothing more to be done about this case from a legal standpoint. (en)
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