A U.S. naval hospital in Florida moved promptly to fire an employee who recently posted to social media with disturbing photographs of her mishandling and denigrating newborn infants. The incident has sparked an outcry, particularly from within the African American community, as the babies mistreated by the nurse - who is a White woman - happen to be Black.
The pictures are stills grabbed from a video that the nurse shared on Snapchat. To her misfortune, one of the nurse's high school peers, Denisa Shellito, came across the posting and didn't find it funny at all. Shellito was so infuriated about the Naval Hospital Jacksonville incident that she knew she had to take action, and did so by exposing the woman on her Facebook page. “A girl I went to high school with is a navy nurse and this is how her and her shitty friend treat the babies that have just been born. My blood is literally boiling and I want to snitch bc that is someone’s child," Shellito wrote, before breaking down what was going on in each photo. "The first pic is her friend who is making the baby dance and she’s playing rap music in the background. I’m LIVID and I’m snitching bc she should get fired from her job but idk how to go about it. Pissed isn’t even the words.”
In the dancing flick, the child's arms are held up and manipulated so as to make dance moves as 50 Cent's "In Da Club" plays in the background. In another photo, the nurse is holding a middle finger up before the baby's face. “How I currently feel about these ‘mini Satans,’” the photo's caption reads. The post has thus far received 145,000 reactions and been shared by over 340,000 accounts.
In a statement that was also issued through Facebook, a Naval Hospital Jacksonville spokesperson said the visuals were “outrageous, unacceptable, incredibly unprofessional, and cannot be tolerated.” The statement went on to confirm that the employees involved have been identified, removed, and "will be handled by the legal system and military justice."
Source: huffingtonpost.com
