Sakia David, the mother of the toddler who was locked inside a spinning washing machine, tells TODAY’s Ann Curry that she plans to press charges against the man and woman responsible for the incident that was captured on video.
The single mother of a toddler who was locked in an active washing machine in a video that has gone viral said on TODAY Thursday that she plans on pressing charges against the baby sitter who watched as the ordeal unfolded.
Sakia David, the mother of 1-year-old Saimeir Bush, did not learn of the incident until she saw the video at midnight Tuesday on the local news after she got home from work. The man and woman seen in the surveillance video from the Federal Laundromat in Camden, N.J., were initially presumed to be the boy’s parents. David identified the woman as the girlfriend of the boy’s father, and still is unable to identify the man who placed her son inside the washing machine while playing a game of peekaboo.
The door locked shut, and Saimeir tumbled around inside the active machine as the woman screamed for help. An alert employee shoved two tables out of the way and hit a circuit breaker to disable the machine, then pried the door open to remove the boy, who was unhurt except for a few bruises.
‘It’s her fault too’
David told the Philadelphia NBC News affiliate on Wednesday that it was an accident and that she was not pressing charges. But on Thursday, she reversed her stance. ...
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