Shocking Baby Launch Video Lands Teen Behind Bars

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07/03/2008 -- A Georgia teen is facing child cruelty charges after an online video showed a young man launching a baby several feet across a room using an inflatable pillow.
The video posted on YouTube shows the boy putting a baby on one side of a large yellow pillow and then jumping on the pillow, sending the child flying several feet across the floor, where the baby lands and cries.
"He really had no explanation — just thought it would be funny to put it on YouTube," Col. Duane Sepp of the Lee County Sheriff's Office told FOX News. "It's all about, I guess, that five seconds of glory or whatever, and it's terrible it has to happen at the cost of an 8-month-old child."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKfYT7Zvpqg

The 16-year-old Lee County boy was arrested Tuesday after a school teacher saw the video and called the sheriff's office. The boy's name was not released because of his age.
"This is going to be handled in juvenile court, although this has some detention time that can be placed on the juvenile offender," Sepp said. "The judge, I'm sure, is going to take this very seriously, and when the tape is shown I don't think it's going to be as funny as what he [the offender] originally thought it was."
The teen has been charged with a felony count of cruelty to children as well as a misdemeanor count of the same charge.
Sepp told FOX News that the teen who filmed the baby launch with his cell phone is not facing charges at this time.
"The investigation is ongoing," Sepp said. "This isn't over. We're still digging into it."
The video has since been removed from YouTube. The baby is OK, Sepp said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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[apdst]

If I was that boy's father, I would beat the living shit out of him.

There's not alot that rattles me anymore, but that video made me wanna puke.

[cronic]

Another sad example of todays youth..

If that was my baby.. that boy could only hope the police got to him before I did

[Truth_and_Power]

If that was my child he'd be begging the jail to keep him longer just so he wouldn't have to face me.

[potter]

If I was that boy's father, I would beat the living shit out of him.


We agree! :clapper::clapper:

Its the lack of just that sort of discipline that creates boys who do this shit.

[heyjude]

I know this is a sexist remark, but any one who leaves any child in the care of a teenage boy is not thinking. Ninety percent of them will be fine, but that ten percent makes trusting the others a high risk. I am not sure discipline will help that boy. Maybe living another twenty years will.

[potter]

Yea...that is sexist...but WTF......

[jafar00]

Where were the parents? And what kind of upbringing has this teen been given where he feels it is ok to launch his baby sibling into the air like that? Blame the parents, and give this teen some corrective counseling.

[PostmodernProphet]

I can't help but notice that the folks who wanted to kill the soldier who threw the puppy don't seem to care about somebody who threw a baby......

[December]

And why is this tabloid like stuff posted in the Current Events forum?

[Osborn F. Enready]

Where are the parents, and what was their reaction after being shown the video I wonder?

Why did the teen think this would be "funny" is my biggest question?

A shame.

[Sirk]

Is this his sibling, or his child?

Count me as another one that would beat the ever loving shit out of him. Bent over a knee and a belt taken to him and he won't think he's so cool anymore.

[Professor]

I don't blame the parents. The broadcast said the child had never been in trouble, they assumed he was in the 90% that was a "good" kid, the worst he would do was break curfew to see a girl.

At 3 children will tell an adult what is fair. They have a deep sense of what is and isn't. It grows out of right and wrong, it's wrong to be unfair. And it's unfair to fling a baby across the room.

At 16 you have an inheriant sense of what is right and wrong. When holding a baby weighing less than 20 pounds, so light that pressing with less than your full body weight on a pillow will send it across a room, you know it's wrong. You may chose to ignore that feeling for the pleasure of amusement and the glorification of celebritiy on youtube but you do know the difference.

[Professor]

Is this his sibling, or his child?

Count me as another one that would beat the ever loving shit out of him. Bent over a knee and a belt taken to him and he won't think he's so cool anymore.

Get in line.