Two Pennsylvania teens face charges after they let a 2-year-old child in their care use a vaping device, and then posted a video of the incident on social media.
The 17-year-old was looking after the toddler at the time at a home in St. Clair Township, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh., the child found the vaping device on a nightstand. The teenagers, instead of retrieving the device, allowed the child to inhale from it as one or both of them videotaped it.
Police said the teens are not related to the child, and the parents of the toddler were unaware of what happened until authorities contacted them. The mother, who did not want to be identified, told WPXI that she was shocked by the teens' behavior. "I'm in disbelief that they would even laugh or have something like that in reach of a child's possession," she said."I'm not trusting nobody anymore to babysit my child."The device is believed to have contained 3 percent nicotine but not THC,
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