Viewers may find this footage upsetting and distressing.
Police are investigating after horrifying footage showed a mother cruelly beating her tiny baby across the head.
The mother, named as Aygul Kozhabaevna on local news sites, was reportedly filmed by an unnamed eight-year-old girl who witnessed the brutal act.
It has been alleged that the woman was ‘teaching her child a lesson’ because the baby refused to stop crying.
In the footage, the woman speaks to the child in a low voice, but then slaps the baby hard across the face multiple times.
The mother slaps and punches her baby in the head 42 times (Photo: CEN)
As the baby continues to cry, the woman slaps the child harder and more continuously.
During the 57 second video, the mother lashes out at the tot at least 42 times.
The appalling video has been uploaded to YouTube alongside Chinese captions, although it claims the footage originated in Kazakhstan, in the city of Almaty.
The baby continues to cry as the mother hits the child across the face (Photo: CEN)
It was originally believed to have been recorded in August, earlier this year, but has only recently been released online.
The woman doing the beating is reportedly a migrant worker from neighbouring Uzbekistan who had travelled to Almaty with her family looking for a better future.
The footage shows the mother, dressed in a blue T-shirt and white trousers, deliberately slapping the baby who is crying on the sofa.
The mother allegedly hit the child because the baby wouldn’t stop crying (Photo: CEN)
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The mother was staying with a friend and it was the friend’s daughter who allegedly filmed the video.
Police are now said to be hunting for the woman as their investigation continues.
Last week they said she was the babysitter…..wicked wicked c*nt. Bullet fi she.
Some people are not even fit to take care of an animal, moreover a child. I hope that the Police dem find this bitch as soon as possible, and then they slap her friggin head many times, just like what she did to the baby at least once every hour, every day, for the rest of her life. That way, she will “learn her lesson”.
She’s the baby sitter wicked joncrow
ITS HER CHILD ..SHE IS AN IMIGRANT AND WORKING IN THE HOUSEHOLD THEY ALLOW HER TO BRING HER CHILD TO WORK WITH HER .
SHE DIDNT KN THEY HAD CAMERA IN THE HOUSE . ITS HER CHILD
Gotta thoroughly screen ppl b4 u employ them especially Psychiatric screening.sentence her to life with hard labour.
Best thing one can do is to raise their child on their own until school. Wherever possible stay with your children as long as you can.
Nope. I cant watch it. I think there should be a death penalty for people who hurt babies, toddlers and children. Evil Mother&%$#rs..
I want to take this sweet baby and I am willing to travel there to get her/him, does anyone know if the baby has been removed or does she still have custody of her/him?