(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Animal cruelty charges have been filed against three people after a graphic video was released showing workers at an Indiana farm kicking and throwing young calves.
The Newton County Sheriff’s Office said three people were charged with misdemeanor charges of “beating a vertebrate animal.” The case is ongoing and their names were not immediately released.
An investigator with Animal Recovery Mission, a Miami-based animal rights group, secretly recorded the footage in 2018 while working for several months at Fair Oaks Farms.
The group said that the footage shows the “daily mistreatment of the resident farm animals” at the farm’s dairies about 70 miles south of Chicago located off I-65 in northwest Indiana.
Fair Oaks Farms founder Mike McCloskey said in a statement last week that four employees seen in the video have been fired and actions have been taken to prevent further abuse. A fifth person shown in the video was a third-party truck driver who was transporting calves, he said.