Colorado hunter slammed for posing with corpse of mountain lion, gloating about her kill
28-year-old Franchesca Esplin was forced to delete her social media accounts after she received threats over the pictures of the killed mountain lion
A Colorado hunter is facing heavy backlash after pictures she posted of a December 2018 hunt of a mountain lion and bragged about killing the beast went viral across social media.
Twenty-eight-year-old Franchesca Esplin's uploads on her social media pages, which have now been deactivated after she received threats, showed her posing with the corpse of the cat, as well as showing off her bloodied hands.
A video uploaded of the hunt shows Esplin shooting and killing the cat as it sought safety on top of a tree after hounds chased it up the tree, and in a Facebook post, animal's rights group Prairie Protection Colorado (PPC) criticized Esplin and called her "sadistic" for how she hunted down the mountain lion.