Swinging Baby Video May be Fake
November 2, 2008 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under News & Media
I’m wanting to warn many of my Babylune Readers that while this is one very disturbing video (Man Swinging Baby by Arms) it may also be a fake. I, like many of you am really angry over it, I don’t care if it is real or fake no one should do this….not even pretend. Too many will see it and “try it at home.” Don’t!
According to reports I’ve read online authorities did try tracking it down but it seemed to come from overseas. No clue who this baby is or the man. You can see the baby is real in the beginning and end, but maybe he sliced the video and did this with a baby doll. Hopefully!
Either way just letting you know what my husband and I are thinking. To the person that posted (I deleted) that I was an idiot, maybe, but maybe this will show people what kind of people are out there and thinking doing this with a baby or a doll is funny.
So disturbing…
sick sick man i was astonished.i don’t even believe that.
I hope thats not real. could hurt a baby seriously
omg that is the funniest shit i’ve ever seen. and superbaby away!!!
I am dizzy just watching this. This is really sick.
it made me sick. I’m surprised the baby’s arm didn’t come out of the socket. this is not something you should be doing to a baby.
No offense, but do you really think people will see this video and ‘try it at home’? That’s absurd.
Parents don’t need your admonishment to know not to swing thier baby around the living room because they see it on youtube.
I want this guy put in jail
Hopefully someone with some type of legal authority will see this and this man will go to jail & will lose rights to his child. This is a perfect example of a world living without Jesus.
It’s not fake, It’s disgusting and overseas or not… other countries should know the same about infants as everyone else
i know i’m in the minority here- but the guy has obviously done this before – it looks like a pretty established routine- and the kid is fine. so why can’t people mind their own business? bcause we’re a nation of nanny cops
Baby is from a long line of trapeze artsists and gym professionals, no problem
I hope it is fake…personally I dont know. Just making a fake video like this is disturbing enough. I had a hard time watching it the first time, so I will not be examining it to find out if it is fake or not.
It was funny! Who cares who the baby is or the father!!
That is NOT a fake video. That is a real child I’m watching. My husband told me not to even finish it because he thought it would hurt me too much. That is definitely a real baby.
Let’s say it’s fake, and I really doubt that it is, it’s still really flipping sick. Not cool. AT ALL.
ALL OF YOU ARE DUMB FOR THINKING THIS IS REAL. DID YOU ALSO GET SCARED WHEN YOU SAW JURASSIC PARK?”I HOPE THOSE DON’T MAKE IT HERE”
OH AND TO JEAN YES IT IS REALLY COOL.AT ALL.
THAT BABY IS BAD
This is horrifying! My husband saw this and said that there is no way it is fake, and he’s usually the one to tell me when things are fake. I’m pretty sure this is real. At one point you can see the baby reaching for daddy dearest and he just flips him backwards. This is sick and that man should be in prison for child abuse. Ever heard of shaken baby syndrome?
MELISSA B.—
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY FAKE.
Let me just say how shocked I am by some of the behavior in the comment section. Thankfully, they are being moderated but I find it thoroughly appalling that adults are here calling each other names and mocking each other.
Since none of us was actually present when this video was recorded, there isn’t a single person who can claim to know whether it is real or not.
Incidentally, though. If you pause the video during one of the dad’s “moves,” you will see that the “baby” is in movement. I’ve never seen a doll whose limbs move in that fashion and all you need to do is pause the video during a sequence to see it.
Something makes the baby dizzy, right? When he stands up, he’s clearly dizzy.
I’ve read some sick comments, believe it or not these were some of the nice ones. As for the baby video, I’ve no honest idea if it is fake or not. Like Jean I saw the part she’s talking, yes, I was sick enough to go through the frames just to see. I wanted to be able to report 100% if it is fake or not. I mean who wants to believe someone would do this to a child! I don’t care if this child is double jointed or not, even if it is a doll, it should NOT be video’d like this. I do think this video was made just to upset people, which it has obviously done.
To the people that have made those horrible comments yes, I deleted them. There are some things that just won’t fly here. Others got through without the moderation.
To Jean, Melissa and others that were concerned: Thanks, makes me happy to know I’m not the only one. Sorry if you’ve been offended here.
To Cain: I won’t even address what you’ve stated here. Pretty sick though to think it is funny.
By editing out comments you are displaying confimation bias.
You only have 1 agenda. For everyone to see that you are right because they only see what you allow to be seen.
Learn some physics. That baby was real and not harmed, or ever in harm.
well I read books from Glenn Doman teaching babies how to read, they also have a book about how to teach a baby to be physically superb and there are pics in there where a baby is getting swing around and has a neck protection on. This video reminded me of the stuff that was in the book…
This video is likely to be REAL. There are controversial exercises done by circus families (for example, used by the family of Varya Akulova – the world’s strongest girl). The swinging is one such exercise (others include strapping small weights to the baby’s arms and legs as he/she begins to learn to crawl or walk to induce early muscle development without use of steroids or other supplements). These are done by professionals only and would certainly risk incurring shaken baby syndrome, leg bowing and other serious injuries if done by those who are not real trainers. However, my opinion is that all such activities border on child abuse and are the result of overzealous parents who wants their kids to be super at something. Just check out Richard Sandrak (”Little Hercules”). His father, Pavel, has finally landed in jail; albeit for attacking the mom.
@Melissa and “world without Jesus”.
The family of Varya Akulova is currently training her infant sister with the swing above as one of the exercises to get the baby used to spinning etc. They are a circus family and DEVOUT Jahovas Witnesses, who visit church and pray regularly before and after every performance. I guess Jesus freaks really are … freaks.
@ Annette “other countries should know …”:
Other countries – them foreigners – probably know a lot more than this country … like where it is on the map, for example.
I also saw documentaries about how chinese acrobats are getting trained staring at a young age they were bending those kids backs so much they would start crying but they seemed fine afterwards….
the father of that baby seemed in a good shape tooo..So I guess he knows what he is doing.. and baby seems happy, through that excercise i bet he grows up having allot of control about his body and all the muscles to be in balance.. but I won’t do this to my babies!!!!
The person who originally posted this video on a different website is currently under investigation and is facing severe charges. It’s real folks, and it’s a sad, sad thing.
the person who posted this did not make the video, it was ripped from metacafe and was posted for the sole reason to find the man who was swinging the baby. Russia is not under the jurisdiction of Interpol it seems, so the Aussie police, a ‘task force argos’ decided to arrest the Liveleak member who posted it under child abuse distribution laws..sickening really. I’d like to know which idiots think it’s a good idea to prosecute a person who brings it to the public’s attention on a news website? The video was shown widely on US news tv station. bloody injustice I say…who went after the original posters on YouTube Or Metacafe? No one.
It switches between a real baby and a doll. You can see the editing if you look close enough. Why do you think the TV is blurred? If it wasn’t you’d see the time laps.
Your appaled, yet you post it to drive traffic to your site so you get more ad revenue…Genius!
ha I agree with phil mccraken. and to mariel, who posted this
“This video is likely to be REAL. There are controversial exercises done by circus families (for example, used by the family of Varya Akulova – the world’s strongest girl). The swinging is one such exercise (others include strapping small weights to the baby’s arms and legs as he/she begins to learn to crawl or walk to induce early muscle development without use of steroids or other supplements). These are done by professionals only and would certainly risk incurring shaken baby syndrome, leg bowing and other serious injuries if done by those who are not real trainers. However, my opinion is that all such activities border on child abuse and are the result of overzealous parents who wants their kids to be super at something. Just check out Richard Sandrak (”Little Hercules”). His father, Pavel, has finally landed in jail; albeit for attacking the mom.”
what the hell does richard sandrak have to do with this at all???? and what does it matter especially if he went to jail not for child abuse but for spousal abuse? that has nothing to do with anything on this page.