Facebook Refuses To Take Down Video Of A Newborn Baby Being ‘Hideously Abused’ – Despite The NSPCC Asking For Its Removal

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A horrifying video of a baby being repeatedly plunged in a bucket of water has angered child protection organisations, including the NSPCC.  

But despite complaints, Facebook is refusing to take down the video – saying it doesn’t violate any of its rules and simply shows ‘baby yoga’.

Having attended baby yoga classes and interviewing an instructor recently, this definitely isn’t any like any baby yoga we’ve seen before. Instead it seems to be bordering on child abuse.

Clearly Facebook agrees, as the company acknowledges that the video is ‘upsetting and disturbing’ – yet thinks its users should be able to view it.

The video shows the baby being twisted by her arms and held upside down by her legs as she’s dunked into water numerous times. She's crying at the start of the video but then worringly goes quiet - prompting viewers to worry that she suffered brain damage during the ordeal, or possibly died.

The baby is being held by a woman, whose face can’t be seen and the video, which was posted on Facebook less than a week ago, is understood to have originated in Indonesia. But no one really knows where it came from.

The NSPCC says the video, which lasts for almost two minutes, shows a “terrified, sobbing baby” and wants to UK government to make sure it’s removed from the social media site.

Claire Lilley, head of Child Safety Online for the NSPCC, told the Today programme that the baby could have ‘serious damage’ to its limbs after being held in such a way.

The shocking video has spurred the charity to press the government to create an organisation "armed with the legal powers to ensure Internet companies are transparent and accountable".

Gabrielle Shaw, CEO for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood said, “It is actually staggering that it does not breach the terms of Facebook. We are of course aware of free speech but surely this is an image of shocking abuse and we would look to Facebook to at the very least take this down and investigate.

“It is a familiar issue, the right to free speech, but come on, this is a baby being hideously abused.”

Another charity spokesperson, Lurleen Hilliard, founder of Nolonger Victims says. “It’s one of the sickest videos I’ve ever seen in my life. I think we’ve literally watched a baby being murdered.

“I’ve spoken to people with medical training and they said, when the baby goes quiet towards the end, it could have suffered something called hyperextension – the neck could have been stretched so much that the baby suffocated.”

Hilliard says that at the very minimum the baby is brain damaged from the shaking.

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