A TEENAGER IN New Zealand has pleaded guilty to killing 23 seals, including seal pups, with a metal pipe.
Jason Trevor Godsiff attacked the seals while he was on his way home from work on a building site near Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island late in the night last year, according to BBC News.
Godsiff, 19, stopped at a seal colony and bludgeoned the animals to death with a metal pipe because he thought they were pests.
Conservation department staff later found the seals, including eight new born pups, at the bottom of a 100 foot cliff.
Some of the dead seals were just days old. Some seals survived with injuries suggesting they had also been battered, according to the New Zealand Herald.
Godsiff will be sentenced in September after he was convicted of wilfully mistreating protected animals.
Another man has also been implicated in the case but Jamaal Peter Roy Large, 36, has not yet submitted a plea and will appear again before the court in August, according to Stuff.co.nz.
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