A heartless Florida woman killed 11 baby ducks by driving her car over the helpless brood “multiple times” because she was ticked off that they messed up her yard, according to police.
Beverly Sasberry, 64, was hit with 11 counts of felony animal cruelty for the shocking April 25 incident outside her home in Jacksonville, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook.
The department said a pair of passersby saw Sasberry behind the wheel of her red Honda Accord as she mowed down the ducklings and turned “her vehicle around multiple times to hit them.”
Beverly Sasberry, 64, is charged with 11 counts of animal cruelty for running over a brood of ducklings. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office According to WFIE-TV News, the mother duck and two ducklings dodged the car and survived.
“The couple confronted the woman a few days later, and she told them she intentionally killed the ducks because she was upset they made a mess in her yard,” the sheriff’s office said.
They reported the incident to authorities and provided video of the incident.
On Thursday, the sheriff’s deputies spotted the Honda and pulled Sasberry over and arrested her.
“We do not take animal cruelty cases lightly,” the sheriff’s office said.
Jacksonville authorities said Beverly Sasberry ran over 11 ducklings “multiple times” on April 25. ihorhvozdetskiy – stock.adobe.com The cruel incident comes just over three months after shocking surveillance video footage captured youngsters stomping and killing a duck in Fort Lauderdale.
The clip, which came from a neighbor’s Ring camera, was so disturbing that cops pulled it from the police department’s online announcement of a $5,000 reward for information on the young culprit.
In another gruesome animal cruelty case, Craig Vogt, 61, was arrested by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida in September for allegedly killing, cooking and eating two of his pet peacocks.
According to police records, Vogt was angry that his neighbor kept feeding the birds so he killed them in a twisted act of revenge — and put a letter in the neighbor’s mailbox to tell him what he had done.
