Viral, Feb 4: A distressing video of a mother dropping her 3-year-old daughter in a bear enclosure in a zoo has surfaced online. The incident happened at a zoo in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In the video, the mother can be seen dropping the child she was holding over the railings in the bear pit.
The CCTV footage showed the mother holding the little girl in her arms over the railings and suddenly dropping the child into the bear pit in the zoo as visitors looked in horror. The Caucasian brown bear named Zuzu came very close to the toddler.
Six zookeepers lured the beast into an enclosed area before rushing to save the small girl, who suffered a concussion and cuts as a result of the fall.
“A young woman threw a little girl down into a brown bear’s enclosure, in front of all the visitors. It was completely unclear what her motive was. Both the visitors and the staff of the zoo were trying to stop her but failed,” said a zoo spokeswoman.
The mother has been arrested and is charged with attempted murder. If convicted of the heinous act, she might face a sentence of 15 years in prison.
We are scared to even think how this would end if the bear were to react to the toddler as its prey.
