Facebook has been slammed by kid protection charities for refusing to remove a viral video showing a naked newborn baby being flung around past the caput and dunked in water.

Ane charity representative described the harrowing footage as "the sickest video I've seen" - yet the social media site claims it does not violate their standards policy.

The disgusting two-infinitesimal clip, idea to originate from Republic of indonesia, shows a chatting adult female dunking the screaming infant in a saucepan of water past a woman - whose confront can't exist seen - while they are being filmed past another person.

The tot screams loudly while she swings it around by its limbs.

The baby'due south artillery are then pulled even college, with the adult holding them in i hand, while she swings the infany circular and round, its head repeatedly flopping side to side.

Upsetting: The kid is turned upside-downwards and held by his legs (

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She then hangs information technology upside downwardly loftier in the air by its legs, and swings it by the caput by holding its cheeks.

Chillingly, the babe and then falls silent, prompting fears it has suffered serious damage during the horrific torment.

The video - which has been shared thousands of times effectually the world - was reported to Facebook staff in the UK on the grounds of both 'graphic violence' then 'nudity'.

But, shockingly, moderators at the social network said the clip had been reviewed merely did not violate their standards policy.

Kid abuse charities have condemned Facebook and called for them to remove the clip and said it could even trigger strong emotional reactions from abuse victims.

Gabrielle Shaw, CEO for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said: "It is really staggering that it does not breach the terms of Facebook.

"We are of class aware of gratuitous speech simply surely this is an image of shocking corruption and we would wait to Facebook to at the very least take this downwardly and investigate.

Controversy: Facebook said the shocking footage does not violate their standards (

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"Information technology is a familiar issue, the right to complimentary speech, but come up on, this is a baby beingness hideously abused.

"It is staggering that Facebook think it does not violate their website.

"We have people who call us for support who have been abused in their childhoods, and requite moving accounts of their experiences, and they - every bit well as other people - volition have serious reactions to seeing or hearing nigh this video."

The clip was posted to Facebook on a public contour less than a calendar week agone, and was reported to Facebook on Wednesday - once on the grounds of promoting graphic violence, and then for nudity.

But a reply from the company said: "Thank you lot for taking the fourth dimension to report something that yous feel may violate our community standards.

"Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environs.

"Nosotros reviewed the video you reported for containing graphic violence and plant it does not violate our community standards."

Lurleen Hilliard, founder of Nolonger Victims - a global charity candidature against abuse - said she feared the babe could take been killed by the corruption in the video.

She said: "It'south i of the sickest videos I've ever seen in my life."

"I've spoken to people with medical grooming and they said, when the baby goes quiet towards the terminate, information technology could have suffered something chosen hyperextension - the neck could have been stretched so much that the baby suffocated.

"At the very minimum that baby is brain damaged from the shaking.

"You do not swing a baby. Shaking babe syndrome tin happen if a infant is moved with fifty-fifty a fiddling flake of force.

"This babe was thrown effectually and turned upside downward, and it'due south skin was going red from either very hot water or very cold water. Information technology was torture."

The video has come to light in the same week that a mother was filmed repeatedly slamming screaming baby on bed.

In that video, thought to take originated in Malaysia, the unidentified woman, who law confirmed is the child's mother, is seen flipping the child over multiple times, letting him land awkwardly on his head and dorsum.

As the child screams, the adult female keeps up the alleged abuse before stopping to rub the baby'due south stomach.

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The NSPCC slammed the latest "appalling" video and said it would be contacting Facebook over its decision not to delete it.

A spokesman for the charity said: "Nosotros manifestly have deep concerns for the baby and would hope that Facebook does all in its power to help trace whoever was responsible for this appalling incident.

"Information technology's difficult to understand why such a dreadful film should have been posted and why Facebook allowed it to be viewed.

"Our main business organisation is for the welfare of the infant only in that location has to exist more command over the kind of material that is posted on social media sites and we volition be talking to Facebook as a matter of urgency."

Claude Knights, CEO of charity Kidscape, said Facebook's lack of action was "unforgivable" and information technology might lead to "copy-cat behaviour".

She added: "This is a very sorry video showing free violence towards a helpless baby.

"For Facebook to permit the showcasing of such abuse is unforgivable.

"As this horrendous footage is going viral there is a adventure that it may lead to copy cat behaviour and that it will distress viewers who come up across it accidentally.

"We know that despite the historic period restriction many young people under 13 are gorging users of Facebook.

"If such footage does not violate Facebook's terms and weather condition then these should exist reviewed as a matter of urgency.

"CEOP and the Internet Spotter Foundation should certainly be alerted to this totally unacceptable situation."

MirrorOnline has contacted Facebook for further annotate.