US INFLUENCER “Really Sorry” for Wombat Video, Slams Australian PM

The US influencer Sam Jones, who uploaded a video of her that selected a baby and took away his mother, apologized after an allegedly escape from Australia. In her first public explanation, which was published on Instagram, Ms. Jones made her intent to “prevent these amazing animals from being hit and ensure that the Joey did not have to be cared for immediately. I learned from this situation, and I am really sorry for the need that I caused.”

Ms. Jones dealt with the details of the incident and remembered: “When we found the mother and Joey on a street and did not move, I was extremely concerned. When it was so often met on Australian roads, I stopped to ensure that they got off the street and not hit. Joey and check whether this was the case.”

The influencer said she was running so as not to pull the Joey away from her mother, but for fear she could attack her. Her judgment did not come from a place of “damage or stealing a Joey”.

Although Ms. Jones was excited to see a baby Wombat, “she immediately gave it back to his mother.”

“I made sure that the mother and Joey reunited himself, and that they got off the street,” she added.

Ms. Jones also made it clear that the video was in no way with social media or in no way to get likes. Neither was staged nor carried out for entertainment. However, this has activated a threat to her life, it claimed and triggered an attack on the Australian government.

“The Australian government allows and allows the slaughtering of Wombats. Thousands are shot, poisoned and legally captured every year. Land owners tear down with heavy machines, poison them with fumigation and shoot them if they can be quiet. Of course they do not kill themselves.

Ms. Jones explained that Wombats survive during the experiment and stand in the way of the landowners who produce food.

“Your government also spends tens of millions of taxpayers a year to fly around in helicopters and shoot beautiful horses, deer and pigs out of the windows.”

However, these animals do not die immediately, she claimed. “Her carcass will then remain rotted in her public area. Her snow-covered river and her Kosciuszko National Park Brumbys are slaughtered by the thousands on their cent speak to their prime minister Anthony Albanese. The loving of the national parks and the national park and the wild animal, while she was upset, added that she had killed fur.

In her attack on the government and the citizens who condemned her action, Ms. Jones also mentioned the kangaroo, the “national animal on her coat of arms”.

“In the past 20 years, about 90 million kangarus and wallabies have been legally slaughtered for commercial purposes and this number is not slowed down. Millions are legally killed every year. Are they not deserved as local species of state protection?”

Ms. Jones also replied to the people who suggested to visit a zoo to see a Wombat. She said that breeding and holding wild animals in captivity are detained in a zoo, “for our gawking pleasure a sin that is far more outrageous than keeping you in exertion to help.”

She asked people to look at what is happening in Australia – a lack of power and treatment of the local wildlife – and then decide whether it is a villain.

When Sam Jones grabbed a baby

At the beginning of this week, Ms. Jones shared a video of an unknown location in Australia. In a now deleted video, Ms. Jones can be seen how he picks up the baby Wombat, a protected type of bags that can only be found in Australia and has to struggle and hears how his mother follows on the street. The woman looks into the camera and says: “I caught a baby Wombat” before putting the Wombat back on the street.

NEW: The US influencer Sam Jones is facing the deportation after she was filmed by his desperate mother.

Australia's Minister of Immigration says he is working on deporting the influencer for the stunt.

“I can hardly wait for Australia to see the back of it … pic.twitter.com/bielww9we6

– Collin Rugg (@Collinrugg) March 13, 2025

The video had internet users in anger with several initiated online petitions, in which Jones' “irresponsible and cruel action” was convicted. One of the petitions demanded that Jones be deported from the country.

The ministers of interior matters, Tony Burke, said that the woman's tourist visa was examined and his department checked whether the Immigration Act had violated.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the influencer to harass animals.

“It is just an outrage to take a baby from his mother and make the mother clearly,” he told reporters on Thursday.

After the outrage, Ms. Jones deleted the video and made her report privately. Accordingly, she left Australia.

Now she has published her account again.