CNN —Shocking footage of a young child hanging from the arms of a detained woman through the barred door of a truck in the Dominican Republic has generated outrage in the country.
Social media videos of the incident, which occurred Saturday in the municipality of Santo Domingo, showed the child dangling off the back of a moving immigration control truck used by local authorities to transport detainees.
The child only appears to be kept from falling by a woman inside the vehicle, whose arms stretch through the bars of the door.
An immigration agent sitting on the back platform of the truck, next to the child, seems to be speaking as he extends a hand and rests it on the child’s shoulder.
The woman, a Haitian national, was released after the agents became aware of the situation, it also said.
Persons:
Venancio Alcántara
Organizations:
CNN
Locations:
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Haitian