The parents of a baby were forced to snatch his son from the hands of a French priest who slapped him during his baptism.
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The aberrant act that circulated on the Internet shows the strange moment in which the priest hits the child in the face with his left hand after losing his sanity when the child did not stop crying.
The man and woman holding the child, who appear to be its parents, observe indignantly, react in shock and move forward to snatch their baby, but the priest would not let go.
While it was not known where or when the video was captured, it was recorded in a church in which the ceremony was held in French.
At the beginning of the clip, the woman who appears to be the baby’s mother is holding in her arms while the priest, dressed in white robes, begins the ceremony next to a baptismal font.
But it soon becomes clear that the child is not enjoying the process, since he can be heard screaming out loud. The father begins to look angry at the loud noise and raises his voice apparently talking directly to the child.
The child’s parents still seem to smile when the priest carries the baby’s head to him, but the baby reacts badly and waves his right arm towards the woman.
While continuing to cry, the priest says: ‘Calm down, calm down, calm down’.
The priest, visibly upset, holds the baby’s face in his hands, looks him in the eyes and hits him hard on the cheek with his left hand.
His aggression provokes an immediate reaction when the baby cries harder, his relatives are surprised and another woman approaches to try to calm the situation by placing his hand on the cleric’s chest as if to contain him.
When the public observes that it begins to murmur, he repeats: “It is necessary to calm down, it is necessary to calm down”.
The man who seems to be the father of the child intervenes, removing the child from the priest’s control, even when the clergy seems to not repent and fights for the possession of the priest.
The video has caused the reaction of thousands on social networks, including celebrities who are mothers, such as Zuleyka Rivera, who expressed her feelings.
“It gives me a lot of courage and indignation that we are adults and we do not understand this basic principle of love. We are responsible for our children before any person and situation.” Never let us sit idle neveeeerrr”I said on Instagram .
