Couple charged after shocking video 'shows baby girl putting gun inside her mouth'

 
The footage shows a girl putting the gun up to her mouth
Robin de Peyer12 January 2015

A couple face criminal charges after a shocking video apparently showing a one-year-old baby putting a gun in her mouth was discovered.

The footage, from the US, allegedly shows the girl playing with the weapon as her 22-year-old mother appears to encourage her to make "pow" sound effects.

Police in Indiana got hold of the video after a 19-year-old man was arrested for trying to sell a handgun to an undercover officers.

Nobody in the film tried to stop the girl as she put the weapon in her mouth.

Police say the mother told officers the girl was holding a pellet gun but investigators said it was a .40-caliber handgun.

They say the gun's magazine appeared to be removed but it's not clear if ammunition was in the chamber.

Two adults have been charged with child neglect and recklessness with a deadly weapon.

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