<Anchor> A
complaint has been filed against an anonymous chat room that brutally abused a street cat and spread its photos and videos.
There were also posts in this chat room that encouraged more abuse, and this can be punishable for doing just that.
Shin Jung-eun is a reporter.
<Reporter> The
cat struggles as if it were painful as he kicked the cramped capture frame.
The cat struck by the arrow is bleeding and falling.
These are the pictures and videos uploaded to the anonymous chat room of KakaoTalk called'Cat N Room'.
Their conversations are full of hatred for the street cat.
In five days, more than 200,000 people agreed to a national petition denouncing this chat room.
[Cho Hee-gyeong/CEO of Animal Freedom Solidarity: Compared to other cases where the abuse is systematically portrayed casually, living or receiving each other, there is no way other than the expression'very dangerous and too terrible'...
.] The
police applied for a warrant and began to identify the participants in the chat room.
Participants even shouted, "The chat record has been erased" and "It's thrilling that I won't be punished." The investigative agency explained that tracking is possible even if the chat room is removed or you leave your account.
It is a violation of the Animal Protection Act not only to directly abuse, but also to upload and share abuse videos.
If you incite abuse, you can be punished for aiding.
[Byeon Ju-eun attorney/law firm Parang: There is room for such comments as stimulating (animal cruelty), forcing them to move on to the next action, or complimenting them
as helpers
.)] In the
chat room, they claim that they only hunted wild animals. Also, hunting animals are strictly restricted by law, and wild animal abuse is also subject to punishment.
(Video coverage: Yong Yong Lee and Duwon Yang, video editing: Mira Yu)