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Teenagers craving for attention resort to desperate, often
reckless acts these days, and the case of a 16-year-old boy in Georgia is just
one example of how these gestures can be taken to extreme, and have serious
consequences.
The teenager released a video on YouTube that shocked the
YouTube community and the entire world. In the video, he puts an 8-month-old
baby on an inflatable pillow, jumps on the pillow and projects the baby across
the room. The baby lands face-first before starting crying.
The entire scene seems very amusing for the deranged
teenager, who wants to see if the baby can fly. He doesn’t feel any remorse for
his actions, and advises viewers not to feel bad about laughing either.
Psychologists found
an explanation for the teenager’s act, saying he suffers from an attention
seeking behavior. Dr. Cheryl Kaiser, Insight Psychologist, explained for WALB
News that people posting such videos are trying to get their 15 minutes of
fame, and YouTube seems to be the perfect tool to do that.
It gives them the chance to be seen, to be shocking, to get
recognized, to do something out of this world, Kaiser said. His parents being
away gave him the perfect chance to do something that might be avoided if
parents and children would sit down and talk more.
The teenager was arrested on Tuesday and taken to the Crisp
County Youth Detention Center in Cordele, Lee County, after a teacher alerted
the local authorities. He is now charged with a felony count of cruelty as well
as a misdemeanor count of the same charge. No charges have been filed against
the boy filming the incident.
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