Phoenix man throws toddler into pool, faces charges (VIDEO)
Jon Erickson, abc15.com staff
6:14 AM, May 20, 2014
3 hours ago
PHOENIX - A man is accused of child abuse after
video shows him throwing a toddler into a pool and then dropping her
back into the water after she was pulled out by the father's girlfriend.
Corey Edmund McCarthy, 23, was charged with two counts of child abuse.
McCarthy was “traumatizing that little girl,” said the girl’s mother, Samantha.
She asked ABC15 to only use her first name.
Tears rolled down Samantha’s face as she watched, for only the second time, surveillance video showing McCarthy tossing their daughter Mia into the pool.
“This is somebody who’s supposed to protect [her],” the mother said.
According to court documents, officers responded to a child abuse call and talked with Samantha.
She showed officers video of McCarthy throwing the 1-year-old child several feet into a swimming pool late last month.
The video shows the baby going face first, up into the air, then down into the pool.
Sgt. Trent Crump with Phoenix police said video shows the child was unattended by the pool for about 25 minutes. During that time, according to Crump, the girl threw two dogs into the water. One of them apparently drowned.
Witnesses told police when the dad heard about the incident, he threw the girl into the water to teach her a lesson.
In the report, police said video showed a woman believed to be McCarthy’s girlfriend get the victim out of the pool and hand her to McCarthy.
When interviewed by police, McCarthy admitted to throwing the toddler into the pool and then dropping her in a second time saying he was trying to teach her to be afraid of the water after she had gone near the pool earlier in the day.
The baby now has nightmares and is scared of the water, Samantha said.
Corey Edmund McCarthy, 23, was charged with two counts of child abuse.
McCarthy was “traumatizing that little girl,” said the girl’s mother, Samantha.
She asked ABC15 to only use her first name.
Tears rolled down Samantha’s face as she watched, for only the second time, surveillance video showing McCarthy tossing their daughter Mia into the pool.
“This is somebody who’s supposed to protect [her],” the mother said.
According to court documents, officers responded to a child abuse call and talked with Samantha.
She showed officers video of McCarthy throwing the 1-year-old child several feet into a swimming pool late last month.
The video shows the baby going face first, up into the air, then down into the pool.
Sgt. Trent Crump with Phoenix police said video shows the child was unattended by the pool for about 25 minutes. During that time, according to Crump, the girl threw two dogs into the water. One of them apparently drowned.
Witnesses told police when the dad heard about the incident, he threw the girl into the water to teach her a lesson.
In the report, police said video showed a woman believed to be McCarthy’s girlfriend get the victim out of the pool and hand her to McCarthy.
When interviewed by police, McCarthy admitted to throwing the toddler into the pool and then dropping her in a second time saying he was trying to teach her to be afraid of the water after she had gone near the pool earlier in the day.
The baby now has nightmares and is scared of the water, Samantha said.
Source: Scripps Media
unattended for 25 minutes by the pool, that could have been her drowned. He was mad his dog drowned.
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