Hong Kong actress turned lawyer doubles HK$100,000 reward for clues on 2 missing dogs
- Mary Jean Reimer reveals decision via her live-stream show as volunteers press on with finding mongrels allegedly removed from monastery
An actress turned lawyer has offered an additional HK$100,000 (US$12,830) as reward for information on the whereabouts of two dogs allegedly put into bags and taken away from a Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong last week.
Mary Jean Reimer, known for previously detailing the alleged corruption of an abbess and sham Buddhist monks soliciting donations, announced her decision to double the reward money on her live-stream show on YouTube on Monday evening.
“I hope to find the whereabouts of the two dogs, ideally with them alive,” Reimer said. “If they have already died, it’s good to have closure. It’s better than organising searches that won’t bear fruit.”
Kent Luk Ka-jeep, founder of animal welfare organisation Paws Guardian Rescue Shelter, offered HK$100,000 of his personal funds on Monday to anyone who could supply information leading to the two dogs’ whereabouts.
Police arrested two male kitchen workers of the monastery, located on Lantau Island, on suspicion of animal cruelty on Saturday in connection with the alleged kidnapping and abandonment of the dogs.
The two dogs, known as “Dai Mui” and “Sai Mui”, which means “big sister” and “little sister” in Chinese, are brown-and-black mongrels.
