Updated, 8:47 pm ET:
A flight attendant is being praised for taking a baby from its mother following “an incident” aboard a Southwest airline plane yesterday.
What kind of mother slaps a 1-year-old child across the face for crying?
CNN has the harrowing details:
A flight attendant on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas, to Albuquerque told police she saw the woman “strike the child with an open hand on the face in an attempt to get the child to stop crying,” a police report states. The flight attendant also said she saw the mother slapping the child on her legs.
KRQE reports the incident involved a 1-year-old.
The woman appeared “agitated,” the flight attendant said, and the husband was yelling at his wife to shut up due to her screaming at the child, the report states.
The baby girl had a black eye, which the parents said was from a dog bite from an uncle’s Great Dane, the report said.
According to the police report, the woman told officers she only slapped her child after she was kicked. And she said she put her finger on the child’s mouth in an attempt to get her to be quiet.
Asked if she thought it was okay to hit a 13-month-old baby, the woman nodded to police and said, “She’s my daughter,” according to the police report.
The flight from Dallas, Texas, to Albuquerque arrived around 4:30 p.m. local time on Monday.
Both parents were questioned by police and then released on their own recognizance after medical personnel examined the child for injuries. The family then boarded another flight.
Source: CNN
