Security video of mom using pressure washer on toddler
Posted on 03/07/2008 3:38:20 PM PST by Libloather
FL mom uses pressure washer on toddler; caught on tape
Security video of mom using pressure washer on toddler
There is some disturbing video coming out of Florida of a mother spraying her daughter with a high-powered hose. She has now turned herself in to police to explain what happened.
Chilling surveillance tape of a mother and her child at a car wash in Orlando shows a mother turning a high powered hose on her 2 ½-year old daughter as punishment, police say.
"It looks like the girl probably had an accident - urinated or spilled a drink." Police say, "God knows what kind of punishment she gets elsewhere."
The manager of the car wash wasn't sure what had happened until she pulled the surveillance tape and watched.
"Why is somebody treating her this way? You don't do that to a kid. No child deserves that," says the car wash manager.
Police say the mother, who is five-months pregnant, says she didn't put the sprayer on full pressure. Full pressure is 1,200 pounds per square inch.
"If you've ever been sprayed with one of those, it's like getting sandblasted," say police.
"They came here, put two dollars into the machine, didn't even wet their car - went straight for the child," says the car wash manager.
The surveillance tape shows after the little girl was sprayed, her wet clothes were taken off and she was wrapped in a town and placed back in the car.
State Child Welfare investigators are also now looking into the case.
The worse part was when the child was wrapped in a “town”.
I’m sure she was not aware of the pressure on those things. Remember, most of this country could not find their state on a map.
I hate when that happens ...
What’s a map?
I guess nobody was spell checking the spell checker.
Some of the diapers I had to change almost required a pressure washer!
Can you get regular water hose pressure? Did the child cry in the video? Does she have skin damage? Things aren’t always what they seem to be.
At high pressure, it would have easily cut the little girl open or injected unsterile water deep into the tissue.
This does remind me though of my brother and me getting so filthy playing in the summer that we needed to first wash off all the mud with the garden hose before coming inside for a regular bath.
It may not have been punishment. She may have just been trying to clean her up.
Can't you squeeze the release lightly for less pressure coming out of the nozzle? I'd hose my kids down with that for fun, if they were good. Then I'd let them hose me down with it.
She was nice enough to wrap her kid in a town afterwards.
True enough— I have a pressure washer at home and on a hot day, it’s nice to get sprayed with it — as long as you’re about 5 feet or so away. At that distance it just turns into a hurricane mist.
Crap like this is why kids abused in potty training end up in therapy - or pulling the wings off flies.
I would think the car wash pressure washer is nothing like the one in your garage.
Oh please. I potty trained both of my kids before 2. Your approach is why kids are still in diapers when they get to kindergarten... when they are ready to do it.
yeah - that demo on a loaf of bread was bogus - if you hold it a foot away, it is not harmful at all. And she swept it past her pretty quickly - I think it was creative.
Thank you for some sense. Of course, any little reason to involve the nanny state.
Not everyone has perfect children.
Not saying they are perfect, just can’t stand when people suggest that potty training early leads to psychological problems. That is as ridiculous as saying disciplining children firmly makes them psychopaths.
All of my kids went to preschools where they had to be potty trained, before kindergarten.
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