A mother provoked the public’s anger after she posted a picture of her toddler smoking a cigarette on social media.
Many people are now calling for child services to step in after seeing the baby inhaling from a lit cigarette in what the mother called a “joke photo,” reports Daily Mail.
The caption says “trying brittnies cig hahaha.”
The mother tried to defend her actions to “everyone getting offended” saying the child “only had one puff of the thing and barely inhaled it.”
The photo received an enormous amount of negative comments, most of which suggested that the child should be taken out of the mother’s care and placed with child services.
“This isn’t funny, you should have your child took off you. Sick.”
The picture was originally shared on Instagram but was also posted to Reddit where it received a bigger response.
“I think this is the angriest Reddit has ever made me.”
One person said, “this is the kind of thing you report to the authorities.”
Another commenter suggested the image had been photoshopped, therefore the context of the image was off.
Kidspot suggested that this post was a fake, as this photo had been posted before back in 2015 by a Spanish woman. The original caption read: “Already smoking at one year old, love you little one, you’re my f****** life.”
The photo sparked the same outrage as it did today and had people calling for child services to step in.