Posted on 07/11/2018 11:48:23 AM PDT by Simon Green
Three teen baby-sitters heard laughing in the background of a Snapchat video that allegedly shows them terrorizing a 1-year-old with a Taser have all been arrested.
Elyssia Watkins brought her toddler to Conway Regional Medical Center after the troubling video surfaced online Monday. Her daughter was not injured, but she still reported the alleged abuse, sharing the clip with officer Brittani Little the same day.
The video “appeared to depict three female teens laughing hysterically while taunting the baby girl with a taser, which caused the child to scream and sob in uncontrollable fear,” according to a press release from the Conway Police Department. It “continued on, showing the teens joking and laughing when one of them forcefully struck the child in the head.”
Watkins told authorities the girls featured in the Snapchat clip had been baby-sitting her daughter at the time and that she was “unaware of the alleged abuse prior to seeing the video.”
All three of them were quickly arrested on the felony charge of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first-degree and were being held at the Faulkner County Juvenile Detention Center, authorities said.
Watkins, meanwhile, is still struggling to comprehend what happened to her little girl.
“I couldn’t even stay at work today, just keep thinking about it,” she told WFLA.
“Why do they think it’s a laughing matter? They do need to go to jail, but I hope somebody really talks to them, they get some counseling.”
Ugh. WTF is wrong with people???
These kids are not being taught good values.
Parents and teachers are failing them, and our nation.
There are few things that enrage me more than something like this...
Totally speechless - I don’t even know where to begin.
Unbelievable...Total lack of common decency and sense.
This is the kind of stuff where caning is a good idea.
There must be some way to blame President Trump, the same as the moron who hit the old Mexican guy with a brick.
Makes you wonder what any of those three teens WON’T due, in the future.
‘do’, not ‘due’. sheesh.
“Parents and teachers are failing them, and our nation.”
I would argue that this is exactly what a secularized society looks like.
This is what the left wanted...Here we are.
Ummmm a one year old doesn't know what a taser is. The screaming is caused by the teens behavior, not the taser.
Sell them to ISIS
“Unbelievable...Total lack of common decency and sense.”
The prerequisite for and evolution of a Democrat voter.
Agreed. I saw the story at Democratic Underground, where most of the replies amount to "This is Trump's fault".
Back hand them and then slap their butts in jail for a few weeks.
Nothing will happen to the abusive baby sitters, as the baby sitters will claim to be victims ...
“Makes you wonder what any of those three teens WON’T due, in the future.”
They will NEVER vote Republican.
Laughing after torturing a 1 year old. Savages who need to be thrown into a cage with a lion.
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