A ten-year-old girl in Florida licked one of the tongue depressors at her doctor's office, then put it back in the jar . . . and her 30-year-old mom filmed it, then shared the video on Snapchat, before it ended up on Facebook.
Cori Ward was arrested and charged with tampering with a consumer product without regard for possible death or bodily injuries. She said she had recorded the video in the exam room at the All About Kids and Families Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. She then posted the video to Snapchat and then Facebook.
In the video, a hand reaches into the jar of wooden tongue depressors before the girl reaches inside to take one. Then, she licks it and puts it back in the jar.
A sign posted above the jar reads "PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH MEDICAL SUPPLIES! THANK YOU!"
The Snapchat video was captioned, “Don’t tell me how to live my life.”
“I wasn’t thinking,” Ward said and mentioned that she had “removed the items that were even surrounding” the contaminated tongue depressor.
The medical center condemned the incident and has since removed the materials that were in the exam room.
The mom says she did it to be silly with her daughter, and they were tired of waiting. She's been charged with a felony. The doctor's office says they sanitized everything
Source: NBC NEWS