A lion cub is in Russia learning to walk again after its hind legs were broken so that it wouldn’t run away from people take its pictures. In an animal abuse case that shock even the president of the country Vladimir Putin,  the lion cub was beaten up so that tourists could take pictures with it. Learning of the abuse, the president himself reported ordered an inquiry on the case

According to the Daily Mail, the cub named Simba was a few weeks old when it got separated from its mother. The cub was then forced to take pictures by his captors who tortured it and broke its hind legs to prevent it from running as it grew bigger and older.