Image via Instagram The controversial hunting influencer Sam Jones is speaking out after garnering backlash for snatching a baby wombat from its mother. She took the animal to take a photo with it in a since deleted video.

I ran, not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me,” Sam Jones, who also uses the name Samantha Strable, posted on social media.

US influencer Samantha Strable, who disgusted Australians by separating a baby wombat from its mother for a video, has left the country.