Footage posted online shows two-year-old Kacper pressing his hand against the door in a desperate bid to open it. The little boy sobbed as his babysitter filmed the footage of him trapped inside the washing machinePolice say they have also found a photo of the boy being forced to smoke a cigarette.
In the video, a man can be heard laughing as the youngster cries. Although the boy was not hurt, cops have launched a child abuse probe. Social services are also involved.
It’s understood Kacper's mum, a 21-year-old known only as Zaneta D, had left the little boy with a friend while she took her boyfriend to work in Radom, central Poland. The photo of Kacper appearing to smoke a cigarette was found on his mother’s social media page – though she denies having anything to do with the post.She claims she left her phone at home while she was working. The video of the boy was allegedly posted online by a 19-year-old man named Mateusz S, who was arrested by police. He was later released without charge. A second man, Adam B, 18, who was looking after the child at the time, was also arrested. Prosecutors said Adam B and Tomasz K, 22, the boy’s father, could face child abuse charges. Mirosław Wachnik, District Prosecutor in Radom, said that if found guilty of child abuse the men face ten years in prison.
