Weird, Odd Local News: PETA Helps Get Porn Star Arrested in Miami for Crushing Fish While Exposing Crotch
On Wednesday, a porn star known as Megan Jones was arrested for decapitating chickens and making other fetish videos that harm animals.
Jones, real name Stephanie Hird, was arrested while boarding a plane at Miami International Airport, Miami Herald reports. The 29-year-old was charged with five felony counts of cruelty to animals.
According to the arrest warrant, Hird is accused of killing fish with "her hands and feet."
"The fish struggle and gasp while slowly being crushed to death on an ice cooler," the warrant reads. "Ms. Stephanie Hird exposes her crotch area and talks to the fish about the killing while they are being crushed."
Radar Online reports that Hird also shot rabbits and set rats on fire. She also reportedly held down a rat and shot it with a pellet gun.
"She reloaded the gun multiple times during the ordeal," Stephanie Bell, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Cruelty Case Work Director, told Radar Online. "The animal can be seen writhing on the ground after being shot, clearly suffering. It's utterly gruesome."
On Thursday, Hird was released on $7,500 bail. She will remain on house arrest and stay with her family.
"They're outside the statute of limitations," Hird told the judge from a video while still in jail.
SOS Barn, a website from PETA helped helped Miami-Dade agricultural unit detectives learn of Hird.
"If it had not been for the one concerned citizen who contacted PETA after finding these videos, the suspects would still be at large and animals would still be tortured," Bell explained.
Just weeks earlier, Sara Zamora, 28, was charged with "decapitating chickens and beating rabbits as part of an animal torture sex fetish video," Miami Herald reports. The "crush" videos were done for Ada Redford, a South Florida fishing boat captain, according to investigators. The videos feature the porn stars engaging in sexual activity, sometimes with other men, while harming the animals.
"They're the most horrific [videos] we've ever seen," Bell said. "The perpetrators showed absolutely no mercy to their victims. It's hard to understand to find why people would find pleasure in that."
Hird faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
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