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Children humiliated on social media

Humiliated children
3 min

In an Instagram video, a mother wants to show the audience the enormous talent of her six-month-old baby. They are walking through a garden and the child is relaxed in her arms. The woman approaches the pool and, unexpectedly, throws her child into the pool. She wants to show that she has taught the child to float if he falls into the water. We see the submerged baby, spinning around. A woman who was already in the pool watches him closely in case the demonstration fails. The image causes a lot of anguish. Finally, the child is turned face up on the surface and can breathe. The women applaud and show off their training methods. The experiment seems to be a success. But it is disturbing how the woman has no qualms about suddenly throwing the baby around, as if he were a ball, as if he were a rag doll without emotions. The tags below the video lead to other images. Parents dressed as horrible monsters who break into birthday parties of two or three-year-old children. Panic sets in and the stampede of terrified children with difficulty coordinating their movements is supposed to make them laugh. Other parents film their children pretending that they have been soiled by an adult's poop. A man asks his little daughter to take the toilet paper to the sink and when she takes the roll, he rubs her face and arms clumsily. It seems that she is getting shit on her, but in fact it is chocolate. The little girl, aged five, is in a state of shock. She does not understand why her father has covered her in poop. It disgusts her but she holds back her tears. She is not sure if it was unintentional or if dad has a problem. The man, to the bewilderment of the child, laughs loudly, humiliating her for her reaction. In another video, a woman wants to immortalise a hilarious idea. The child in front of her, aged about four or five, trusts her completely because she obeys all instructions. They cover her eyes and ask her to lift her index finger. They put her finger inside a pierced tangerine filled with melted chocolate. Then they hide the tangerine and place the cat, upside down, right in front of it. When they uncover her eyes, they make the poor creature believe that she has put her finger in the cat's anus. When the girl cries, the family bursts out laughing because the trick has worked. The absurdities multiply. A woman forces her small children who have been fighting to get inside the same shirt. The punishment forces them to live together compressed as if they were Siamese twins. There are also viral challenges. Parents prepare a recipe with their small children, but there is a secret intention. Suddenly they smash an egg on the child's head to see how it reacts. The #cheeseChallenge consists of throwing a slice of cheese in the face of a baby when it is crying. They intend to demonstrate the mysterious effectiveness of the invention: when the cheese gets stuck on the baby's face, the creature stops crying instantly. Very educational.

There are people who believe that their children are like puppets. They are objects of their property. They do not consider that minors have the right to respect or dignity. They betray their trust without scruples because they are just that: dolls to manipulate. Social networks also do not put limits on this type of content. They find a woman's nipple more scandalous than a baby who suffers emotional abuse from the adults around him. Some of these videos have been circulating for years. It is inevitable to wonder if one day, all these children, when they have grown up, will find these images. Perhaps some feel unfairly exposed to humiliating experiences. And others may have normalized the desire to humiliate others.

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