What Happened After New Jersey Pair Stuffed Baby Into A Washing Machine?

May 24, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Days after the spread of a child endangerment video on YouTube, authorities are investigating.

Incidentally, it’s not the baby’s mother nor father stuffing one-year-old Saimeir Bush into a washing machine. The boy’s mother, a New Jersey woman named Sakia David, claims she and the baby’s father are not the man and woman in the video.

In the clip, a woman folds laundry at the Federal Laundromat of Camden, NJ. While a man inserts a child to “scare” the boy, only for the machine to turn on. Workers at the laundromat, one of whom saved the boy’s life by opening the machine as it spun and filled with water, called the police although the pair and child had already left.

The woman took the child to a local hospital afterward for minor injuries including scrapes and bruises.

The mother says she didn’t know about the May 11, 2012 incident until she watched the surveillance footage, like you did, on the news. The woman in the video is the girlfriend of the baby’s dad.  The man in the video is as-yet unidentified, but he is not the boy’s father (and probably not the child’s relative).

“I was working and that’s his father’s girlfriend,” explained David.

David asked what happened, since she recognized her son on the news. Accused, the baby’s father’s girlfriend denied all knowledge. “She said it wasn’t her,” elaborated David. “But when the cops came this morning to my house and told me to come outside I knew it was my baby.” Probed by police, the unnamed woman acquiesced.

The mother blames and holds accountable the girlfriend, who’d been trusted as a babysitter. But David believes this was an accident and the sitter shouldn’t be charged.

Police questioned the mother and grandmother, Doreen Bey. The Prosecutor’s Office told NBC10 they have spoken with all of the boy’s family members, the babysitter, and the male acquaintance.

“Nobody should ever put a child in a washing machine,” said Bey.

Authorities are currently satisfied that the man’s actions were a prank, so they won’t file criminal charges although they will continue to investigate everyone’s claims. According to the AP, the case also was referred to the state’s Division of Youth and Family Services.