An American influencer who sparked outrage after posting a video of her snatching a baby wombat from its mother ... but from fear she might attack me," Jones, who also uses the name Samantha ...

as the wombat's mother chased after her. "I ran, not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me," Jones wrote in her statement. "The snap judgement I made in these ...

“I ran, not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me,” Jones added. Jones said in her apology that she returned the wombat to its mother immediately after her ...

“I ran, not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me.” In the since-deleted video captured by 10 News First, Jones picks up a baby wombat on the side of a road ...

"The baby wombat was so distressed ... "I ran, not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me," she described. "The snap judgement [sic] I made in these moments ...

"I caught a baby wombat," Jones says excitedly ... She said she only ran from the mother "from fear she might attack me" and "ensured that the mother and joey did reunite, went off together ...

but from fear she might attack me," she added. "The snap judgement I made in these moments was never from a place of harm or stealing a joey." Jones went on to say that she looked the wombat "over ...

The PM’s strong words about the American influencer who took a baby wombat from its mother would have you believing he cared about native wildlife. His track record suggests otherwise.

A video shared widely on social media shows Sam Jones, who has 95,600 Instagram followers, running with the wombat towards a car while its distressed mother chases after her. Jones smiles as she ...