Authorities had performed an unannounced visit to Haddix's home in April and found a large cage in her basement. The cage was empty, but authorities saw "fresh dung," flies, blankets, an empty Gatorade bottle and “a half-eaten sucker” in the case, leading them to believe a chimp had recently been kept there.

The unannounced visit was a condition of her release.

Haddix's legal battle played out on HBO's "Chimp Crazy." The four-part series was released last year and followed her custody case with PETA over several chimps, including Tonka. The movie star chimp had vanished in 2021 under her care after a court granted PETA permission to transfer Tonka and other chimps to a sanctuary.

In January 2022 virtual court testimony featured in the four-part series, Haddix sobbed as she told the court that Tonka had died and was cremated. In the series, Haddix revealed to the audience that Tonka was alive and celebrated her tricking the court.

PETA used the HBO series as evidence in its case against Haddix.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Shes evil!

Custody case against PETA

Nvm shes probably in the right

Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

CXORA@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I see you've fallen for the anti-peta propaganda.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Well, considering they euthanize animals at a much higher rate than other shelters, are known to peddle misinformation, and the fact that theyve been known to steal people animals to kill them, yeah, I'd certainly say i have. They're emotionally manipulative, abusive to their animals, and hippocrites. Fuck PETA

IzzyJ@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They also pushed bullshit suggesting milk causes autism

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

I linked to that

CXORA@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Peta accepts animals that other shelters reject... so of course their rates are worse. Do you object to euthenasia in general?

So they had one bad ad campaign.. Okay.

Peta does not, as an organisation, steal pets.

Poojabber@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

You are correct. PETA is very similar to the united states police. There are good members that are doing some good out there, however there are a great many documented cases of them doing terrible things that stain the reputation of the vast majority.

Pumafred9@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

The best place to stash your secret chimps, is in a 'pocket universe'.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Onion did it first

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

This lady is 100% fucking these chimps, right?

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

no....of course not. you can't just fuck a chimpanzee.

they are fucking her though.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"Nah fellas. I'm just gonna stay home and... Play with my monkey. You know how long it took me to train Chim-Chim here to suck my dick without peeling it first?"

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

that doesn't sound very....apeeling....

Degloved penis

markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I don't think so. I did a deep dive into the rabbit hole of people who keep chimps as pets a while back and from my understanding of would be pretty hard to get a chimp to fuck you. Un-castrated male chimps are extremely violent animals and even if they were to try to have sex with a human it would be an extremely dangerous endeavor. I think most of the ladies (and interestingly, it's almost entirely ladies) who keep chimps as pets definitely have some kind of psychological problem, but they mostly view their relationship as mother/child. Not saying that eliminates the possibility of misplaced sexual attraction, but in the written content I've seen from monkey moms and chimp parents I have never picked up a sexual aspect, although this was before this lady was famous and I haven't read anything about her specifically other than what's in this thread and article.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Chip_Rat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

So what is HBOs liability in all this? I started my original comment with "why aren't the producers all the way down to the camera OPs not being charged with somethng?" But then... This situation is bullshit but real journalists need incentives to seek out serious crime, and need to be able to record and report on it....

But then if she was keeping a human prisoner, obviously that wouldn't fly....

Where is the line? At what point does ("should", I know this will never happen) HBO get all their profits seized and rights to the doc taken away?

teamevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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