Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had posed with the dead bear cub he found and later dumped in Central Park in a graphic, new photo that emerged Monday.
The harrowing photo, published by the New Yorker magazine, shows Kennedy sitting beside the dead cub in the back of his car in 2014 as he posed with the creature to make it look like the animal was biting his hand.
Kennedy, 70, could be seen with a pained grimace on his face as he held the cub’s head up against him, with the creature’s bloody teeth pressed against his hand.
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The dead cub’s bloody wounds could also be seen in the graphic photograph, as Kennedy claimed that the bear was hit by a woman driving in front of him during an outing in upstate New York.
Referring to the photo op, Kennedy simply said, “Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm,” referring to the parasite that ate part of his brain before dying inside his head decades ago.
The existence of the photo brought shock across social media with many horrified and wondering why Kennedy would pose with the dead, bloodied bear.
Kennedy confessed to being the culprit behind the dead cub found in Central Park a decade ago during a puzzling interview with Roseanne Barr on Sunday, just before the New Yorker article was set to publish.
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The Kennedy scion revealed that he picked up the dead bear cub with plans to skin the animal and store its meat, but a meeting that day prevented him from carrying out the plan.
Instead, he decided to dump the bear cub in Central Park and stage the scene to make it seem like the animal was hit and killed by a cyclist because he thought it would be funny.
The dead animal made headlines at the time after a woman discovered the cub, but its origins became a mystery until Kennedy’s confession over the weekend.
