CONWAY, AR. (THECOUNT) — Three teenage female babysitters in Arkansas have been arrested after a Snapchat video emerged showing the girls torturing a baby girl by repeatedly shocking her with a taser.
According to authorities, police became aware of the incident when they were called to Conway Regional Medical Center for a report of child abuse.
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The mother of a 1-year-old girl had brought her child in after seeing a disturbing video on social media. 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 police report. source
“In the video, you can see and hear the electric prongs on the Taser lighting up,” Officer Brittani A. Little wrote in the report.
One of the teens then “walks to the end of the bed and stretches her arm out and zaps the Taser two more times in the child’s direction,” police said.
At one point, the teens continue to laugh and joke as one of them hits the child in the back of the head.
The teens, who were not identified because they are minors, were booked into the Faulkner County juvenile detention center. Each faces a charge of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor.
Watch the shocking video here.