A TikTok influencer says her son was taken away by child social services after a video of him being wrapped in cling film went viral.
Savannah Glembin posted a follow-up video on social media telling her followers their son, called Gunner, had been taken as she was seen to be weeping. The footage shows the boy being pushed around the bed.
As reported by the Mirror, his arms can be seen to be pinned to his sides with layer after layer of cling film. The TikTok mum, who has 1.1 million followers, was slammed and the video has since been taken down.
In the follow-up video, Ms Glembin said: “Gunner has been taken from us until CPS can evaluate our home because I posted a video of my husband and son playing."
She defended the video as “just a funny thing Hank did because Gunner was getting into the stove that day and tried putting a fork in a socket”.
The child appears unable to move his arms and looks like he is welling up in the clip.
He falls onto his knees, unable to catch himself and his dad, who is seen in military uniform, then places the tightly wrapped toddler face down on the bed before being flipped over onto his back.
Social media users railed against Savannah for the video, with one TikTok user saying: “Cannot feel bad for you here.”
Another said: “Nope sorry. This wasn’t okay.”
Savannah said that the authorities had cleared her and her husband of wrongdoing in another follow-up video.
She wrote: "CPS cleared us of wrongdoing and determined our home, with us, is a safe one for our son, despite that… a hard lesson was learned, a mistake we will never make again, this weekend was extremely traumatic for us as a family and will be taking time away to heal".
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