Big game hunter Sabrina Corgatelli defends killing giraffe: They “are very”
The university accountant has since responded with more photos of animals she’s shot and a couple of quotes from the bible, for good measure.
She also posted a picture of the Great Gatsby which was captioned: “To all the haters – stay tuned, you’re gonna have so much more to be p***ed about”.
As the world reels after the death of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion, Sabrina Corgatelli is drawing attention to her own trophy hunts on social media.
A long way from her home in Idaho, Sabrina Corgatelli is still hunting big game in South Africa – forging ahead despite the controversy surrounding the recent killing of Cecil the lion.
Idaho huntress Sabrina Corgatelli and her companion Aaron Neilson speak to TODAY’s Carson Daly live via Skype from South Africa about controversial photos of her legal killing of an African giraffe. “They could hurt you seriously very quickly”. “Loving it here!!” and another showed her with a blue wildebeest and an impala which she described as “one of Africa’s icons”.
The pictures prompted a firestorm of outrage from animal lovers who posted tens of thousands of raging messages on her profile branding her “deranged”, “heartless” and “the definition of disgusting”.
Her it-could-be-coming-right-for-us defense aside, Corgatelli is correct to note that “everything I’ve done here is legal”, and questioned how people can “fault somebody because of their hobbies”. Corgatelli said. “How can an employer chastise you for something you do on your personal time that’s legally done?”
Walter Palmer is accused of illegally killing Cecil the lion.
Authorities have also called for the dentist’s extradition from Minnesota to face charges of financing an illegal hunt. “So to start charging foreign people under crimes like this in a place where he likely was completely unaware of most of the circumstances, I think would be a very slippery slope”. On Monday, officials announced that all hunts are being suspended in the national park where Cecil was killed.