This is a plea submission from November 14, 2025 involving a male and female couple from Winnipeg who were charged with animal cruelty in one of the most horrific animal abuse cases in Canadian court history. Both accused pleaded guilty to six counts of willfully causing unnecessary pain and suffering to numerous animals over several months in 2024.
The case came to the attention of the authorities in August 2024 when an anonymous tipster contacted Manitoba’s Animal Care tipline about an online group they had located called Goddess May Premium Barefoot Crush that was selling and sharing videos of animals being crushed to death, distributed on the messaging app, Telegram, which had over 100 members. Screenshots and videos provided to Winnipeg police showed evidence of this, including a video of a bare human foot crushing live cats to death. There were also topless images of the male accused including his tattoos and his face, as well as a price list offering various animals being killed: a baby mouse for $5 or three kitten family for $180 (p. T4). Many of the videos had sexual components to them; “in one video, the female accused crushes a cat to death under her bare foot while she made loud sexual noises and purported to masturbate and orgasm as the cat dies” (p. T5).
Police linked the accused to the group and found evidence showing they filmed and sold videos of over 90 animals being tortured and killed including 67 cats, six rabbits, seven birds, six hamsters, two rats, an axolotl, a frog, and three goldfish. This activity generated about $2,800 CAD in profit.
The court accepted the guilty pleas and a pre-sentence report was ordered, with sentencing postponed to a later date.
Guilty plea - Kabecz and Lima 2025 MBKB