Whats with PETA anyway? Their name, "People for Ethical Treatment of Animals," is grossly contradicted by two of its employees murdering a girl's pet dog!
WTF?
PETA Killed A Little Girl's Dog, And Her Family Wants Them To Pay. A Lot.
"We wanted to hold PETA accountable for what they did to Maya and the Zarate family."
Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took and killed a little girl's dog just over a year ago.
Now a lawsuit has been filed in Virginia state court asking PETA to pay Wilber Zarate Llaven and his daughter Cynthia more than $7 million in compensatory and punitive damages for the death of Maya the Chihuahua.
"We wanted to hold PETA accountable for what they did to Maya and the Zarate family," the family's attorney, William Shewmake, told The Huffington Post.
PETA -- which operates a controversial, high-kill animal shelter at its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia -- has already admitted to killing the dog.
Surveillance footage shows two PETA employees luring Maya away from the Zarates' mobile home and into their van. She was dead by the next day, when the family reached shelter workers looking for their dog.
In February, after being fined $500 by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the group said in a statement that Maya had accidentally been taken as part of a roundup of stray and unwanted animals in the area. Maya's killing was called "extremely upsetting" and a "tragic mistake." The fine was for killing Maya too quickly; under Virginia law, she should have been kept alive for at least five days.
The suit, which you can read here, was filed Monday.
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