Petition: She Threw Three Kittens Onto a Georgia Road. A Driver Behind Her Wrote Down the Plate.

Maria Stewart was driving behind a Toyota Sienna on Osborne Road in Brookhaven, Georgia when she saw something come out of the window ahead of her. It was an eight-week-old tabby kitten. Then another. She followed the minivan while calling 911, gave police the licence plate and a description of the driver, and officers found the vehicle at a business nearby. One kitten was found dead in the roadway. A second survived with a dislocated tail and scratched ears. Valentina Tobon Henao, 25, was arrested on 5 August 2026 and charged with animal cruelty. Please sign the petition asking prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges the evidence supports.

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The third kitten was missing for days, and that part has a better ending than the coverage first suggested. Residents organised searches around Brookhaven Park, and local police joined them. The kitten was found alive. Terri Eden, a friend of the witness, took in the injured survivor, who needed sedation to get through the first night and was treated by a veterinarian for the dislocated tail. Two of three came through this. Henao has been released on bond pending a court appearance, has been charged and not convicted, and is entitled to due process.

What the petition is actually contesting is the level of the charge. Georgia distinguishes between misdemeanour and aggravated cruelty, and campaigners argue that throwing three eight-week-old animals onto a live carriageway, killing one, belongs in the second category rather than the first. That is a prosecutorial judgement rather than a moral one, and it is the specific decision signatures are aimed at. It is also worth noticing what made any of this possible. There is no camera on Osborne Road that caught it. There is a driver who realised what she was seeing, kept following, stayed on the phone and wrote down a plate number. Without Maria Stewart there is no suspect, no charge and no petition, and two of these kittens are simply gone. If you ever find yourself behind something like this, the plate number is the entire case. One Green Planet has covered how to report suspected animal cruelty, and the arrest is reported by FOX 5 Atlanta. Brookhaven Police can be reached on 404-637-0600.

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