Prosecutors in Florida have decided not to file any criminal charges against a mother who was seen in a viral Facebook video shoving her three-year-old son's head into the toilet.
The Leesburg Police Department said in a press release on Wednesday that the agency had launched an investigation into Kaitlyn Wolf on Saturday, after receiving complaints about a video posted on Facebook showing the mother-of-two holding her youngest son upside down and dunking his head into the toilet as her 10-year-old son recorded the punishment.
In the course of the investigation, police learned that the Department of Children and Families had looked into this incident last Thursday and determined that it did not rise to the level of child abuse.
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Screenshots from a cellphone video shows Kaitlyn Wolf dunking her three-year-old son's head into the toilet in their Florida home. Prosecutors have opted not to pursue charges
The mom says she has been getting death threats on Facebook over this video
Police proceeded with their own independent criminal investigation and forwarded the Facebook video to the State Attorney's Office with a request of a warrant for Wolf’s arrest.
The prosecutor’s office asked for additional information, so the police department worked ‘tirelessly’ through the weekend gathering more evidence, before making another request for the arrest warrant on Tuesday.
A child forensic interviewer spoke to Wolf’s two sons in the presence of a police sergeant, a prosecutor and a DCF official, and it was determined, according to the statement from the law enforcement agency, that there was 'threatened harm of mental injury' to the two boys due to their mother's disciplinary measures.
However, the forensic interview failed to show there was physical abuse or neglect, leading the State Attorney's Office to decide not pursue criminal charges.
'While we respect the decision from the State Attorney and the Forensic Team, this incident calls for continued intervention for the welfare of the children involved,' according to the press release. 'We asked the Department of Children and Families to assure the children remain safe and have a safety plan.'
Wolf (pictured with her young son) says the boy was laughing and was never in any danger
The statement concluded by thanking all the concerned citizens for raising the alarm about the disturbing Facebook video.
Wolf previously talked to a local news outlet, lamenting that she has been bombarded with death threats and insisting that the video recording did not tell the whole story.
‘It was a joke between the three of us,' Wolf told the station WFTV, referring to herself and her two sons. ‘My sons and I horseplay rough. We stuck his head in the toilet and flushed it, and my older son was recording it.'
The mom-of-two explained that her three-year-old blurted out a profanity, so she initially decided to punish him by washing out his mouth with soap and water.
But then she watched a film that included a scene depicting a child's head being shoved into a toilet.
Wolf said she grabbed the toddler, held him above the toilet and dipped his head into the water, while her older son filmed it on video.
The recording shows the mom holding the crying boy by his arms and dunking his head into the porcelain bowl.
Afterwards, Wolf said she sent the video to a friend, bragging in jest about her novel way to discipline her children.
Wolf (left and right) says people have been bombarding her with threats, to the point that police have posted officers outside her home for protection
But the friend forwarded the video to the ex-girlfriend of Wolf's current boyfriend, who promptly shared it on social media.
Most Facebook users who watched the clip failed to find the humor in the toddler's watery punishment and contacted the Leesburg Police Department, urging it to intervene.
Wolf said that since the video has gone viral, she has been getting death threats online, with strangers writing to her that she should be shot and buried alive.
She said the harassment has gone so far that police posted officers outside her house for her protection.
According to the mother, who works as a medical assistant, her young son was never in any real danger.
‘His head was never under the water, his face never got wet,' she insisted. 'It’s scary to think I might lose my children over this - over a joke that we played.’
She continued: 'It was just a game. I didn't inflict harm on him... he was laughing during the video.’
In an interview with WKMG, Wolf claimed that what the video does not show is that when she pulled the three-year old out of the toilet, he said,' Let's do it again.'
Wolf has since deleted her Facebook account.
The mom-of-two said she was trying to discipline her child for using foul language
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Main photo article Prosecutors in Florida have decided not to file any criminal charges against a mother who was seen in a viral Facebook video shoving her three-year-old son’s head into the toilet.
The Leesburg Police Department said in a press release on Wednesday that the agency had launched an ...
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