Anigar Monsee (Upper Darby Police Department)
A 28-year-old woman in Pennsylvania was arrested this week for allegedly posting a series of videos to her social media channel in which she slowly and sadistically tortured animals such as chickens, rabbits, frogs, and birds. Anigar Monsee was taken into custody on Friday and charged with four counts of aggravated animal cruelty, court records obtained by Law&Crime show.
According to a probable cause affidavit, authorities were tipped off about videos that had been posted to YouTube by PETA headquarters documenting a “scantily-clad woman torturing rabbits, chickens, frogs, and pigeons by slowly disemboweling and otherwise mutilating the animals while still alive.” The document states that Monsee was also “severing the struggling and screaming animals’ necks with a dull knife over the course of several minutes.”
One video, titled “Cooking Lucky,” allegedly posted to Monsee’s account showed her alongside a live chicken that was in her sink. Before harming the animal, Monsee allegedly commented about the number of viewers and likes that her livestreaming video was getting and “solicited more before she harmed the animal.”
“For roughly the next 10 minutes, the actor aggressively handled the clearly terrified animal, plucked feathers from the bird’s neck, and hacked repeatedly at the struggling bird’s throat with knives while the animal attempted to escape,” the affidavit states. “The actor then climbed on the counter, pinned the bird down in the sink with her feet, before sawing at the bird’s neck in a slow back and forth motion. She continued carving at the bird’s neck for more than two minutes, until the screen went black.”
Another video from September 2023 allegedly showed Monsee carving open a frog that was still alive as she “slowly pulled out the frog’s organs.” She also commented that the frog was “still alive” and joked that he was “dancing.” She then did the same to two other frogs while singing the song “Happy Death Day” to the tune of “Happy Birthday,” police said.
Another video allegedly showed Monsee stroking a pigeon with a knife, then plucking all of the bird’s feathers out while it was still alive. She then ran the bird’s head “under scalding hot water” before “slowly sawing” its head off with a “dull knife.”
Yet another video allegedly showed Monsee — again using a “dull knife” to torture a rabbit to death. The video lasted for more than 30 minutes, police said.
Police were able to identify Monsee’s address based on the videos she posted online. Detectives responded to the home on Jan. 19 and she answered the door holding a toddler, per the affidavit. Monsee allegedly told the detectives that she was the individual in the videos torturing animals, at least one of which took place in the residence they were in at that time.
Monsee was arraigned and a judge set her bond at $200,000. She is currently being held at the Delaware County Prison and is scheduled to appear in court again for her preliminary hearing on Feb. 5.
“It’s just barbaric. It’s inhumane that someone could do that,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said in a statement to the Delco Times. “She’s going to answer to all four of the incidents. Detectives looked into it and charged her. Hopefully it will send a message that this is cruelty.”
Monsee’s YouTube channel had more than 20,000 subscribers before it was shut down, police said.
He added, “Even more disturbing, is that there are people out there that are entertained by this and there’s a platform out there that is allowing it.”
