CHILD WARNING The Laundromat's Epic Parenting Failure [USA]

The video that gained national attention occurred on May 11 at a laundromat at 23 Federal Street in Camden. The video attracted millions of views after being posted on YouTube and other sites.

It shows a man placing a child (later identified as Semel David) into a machine, apparently as part of a game of "hide and seek". He then closed the door and it locked and cycled on its own with the child inside.

As the child continued to spin, a man and a woman frantically held the door open for several seconds before running to get help. Laundromat employee Kong Aina then quickly unplugged the machine and the seemingly uninjured child was pulled to safety.

After the incident, the workers called the police. However, the woman and man in the video were not present when police arrived as they had taken Semel to the hospital to make sure he was okay. The unidentified man in the video returned about an hour later to collect his clothes and claimed the boy was fine. Authorities said the matter did not appear to constitute a criminal offense but had been turned over to the state's Department of Youth and Family Services.

Investigators initially believed the man who put Semel into the machine was the boy's father. The boy's mother, Sakia David, told NBC10 that's not the case. According to Sakia, the woman in the video is the girlfriend of Semel's father and was taking care of the child at the time. Sakia said she didn't know who the man in the video was. David also said she had no idea about the incident until she saw the video on the news and thought she recognized the woman. When David confronted the woman about the incident, she told NBC10 the woman denied it happened.

She said it wasn't her," David said. "But when the police came to my house this morning and told me to get out, I knew it was my child. Sakia said that the police later interviewed the nanny, who admitted that it was her in the video. However, the police have not confirmed Sakia's statement.

Now, the mother of the trapped toddler, Sakia David, told NBC10's Monique Braxton that her son was with his nanny when the incident occurred. David also said she did not plan to press any charges.

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