Update: Man Who Put Toddler into Washing Machine Not Boy’s Father [View all]

[bluesbassman]

The two adults shown loading a 13-month-old child into a commercial washing machine in a shocking video viewed by millions were not the boy's parents but a babysitter and her male friend. "We talked to the people in the video and they were not the parents of the child," Camden County Prosecutor's Office spokesperson Jason Laughlin tells Shine. "We won't be charging anyone. We were looking for purposeful endangerment and we didn't see that."
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The man and woman scoop up the youngster and flee the laundromat. Chhour tells Shine that the man referred to the child as "my kid." "That's why I thought he was the daddy," she explains. Employees and witnesses also assumed he was the boy's father when speaking to the media and the police after the incident.

The prosecutor's office is sending the case to be reviewed by the state Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). DYFS spokesperson told Yahoo! Shine, "Due to New Jersey confidentiality laws, we can't comment on any cases." The names of all of those involved in the scary mishap remain unidentified.


http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/man-put-toddler-washing-machine-not-boy-8217-211300071.html

There was understandable outrage over this incident, but the poor kids father took a lot of unfair abuse.