The 19-year-old moth­er of a one-year-old child and two oth­er peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the abuse of the child.

The child, who was be­ing treat­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day, had marks of vi­o­lence about the body.

ACP Wayne Mys­tar yes­ter­day said he re­ceived a phone call about an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing the one-year-old child. He said a video and graph­ic im­ages were al­so shared with him, prompt­ing im­me­di­ate ac­tion.

The video showed two chil­dren ly­ing on a mat­tress sleep­ing when some­one be­gan stomp­ing on them, awak­en­ing them. The chil­dren be­gan scream­ing and cry­ing. The video is 17 sec­onds long.

“Up­on re­ceiv­ing the dis­tress­ing footage, a team con­sist­ing of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, a task force, and Emer­gency Health Ser­vices (EHS) was dis­patched to the Clax­ton Bay area,” Mys­tar said.

Med­ical pro­fes­sion­als from the EHS did an ini­tial ex­am­i­na­tion at the scene and de­ter­mined the child need­ed fur­ther at­ten­tion.

The child’s moth­er, her sis­ter and the sis­ter’s boyfriend are help­ing the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.