A father dangled his baby out of the window of a 15th-floor apartment so that he could get 1,000 likes on Facebook.
The Algerian dad had posted a video of the child being held by just his shirt 150 feet above the street below with the caption, ‘1,000 likes or I will drop him’.
When people picked up on the shocking clip, he was reported to the authorities in the capital Algiers and yesterday he was sentenced to two years in prison.
After the incident, the child was reported to be in a state of fear and bewilderment.
Many Facebook users, who watched the video, demanded that the man be tried on child abuse charges.
The defendant said the picture was photoshopped. Speaking to Algeria’s Ennahar news site, he said the balcony had protective bars that were removed by Facebook users in the viral image.
The court was not convinced by the man’s explanation, the report adds.
The child’s father also called for the court to forgive the man, arguing that he had simply been playing a game.
The judge, however, ruled that he had put the child’s life in danger.
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