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Babysitter fired after mum realises viral video of baby being abused is her daughter.

Any number of viral videos pass through our news feeds daily, but for one American mother clicking on the latest trending clip was the beginning of a real-life nightmare.

Indianapolis woman Brittany Dixson was horrified when she came across a video of her seven-month-old daughter being repeatedly doused in litres of water at a local water park while her babysitter watched on and did nothing.

The footage was captured by Desiree Howell who became concerned for the baby’s well-being and set out on a mission to find the child’s mother.

“She is abusing this child. Baby is crying. And swallowing this water… She has been yelling at her telling her to get over it,” she captioned the video, which has been shared more than 5000 times since she uploaded it to Facebook.

“It’s terrifying to think that somebody could do something to your daughter, somebody you trust to watch your daughter at any moment of time,” Dixson told WishTV about the incident.

“My newsfeed was lit up, there was posts everywhere like, ‘whose baby is this?’

“It’s just really stressful to think about somebody would do that to her no matter how many times you put a child under water… They’re not going to like it and they’re going to cry every time.”

When she realised it was her daughter, Annora, she immediately messaged the woman who posted it, before confronting her babysitter.

“You allow that to happen, you allow to let her walk on her barefoot on the hot cement, you swing her high up on the swing multiple times.”

She then took Annora to the emergency room and was told she could have drowned in her sleep if she’d swallowed more water.

Even so, she says she forgiven the babysitter who has now been fired.

Investigators from the Greenwood Police Department have now referred the case to child protection services, according to Buzzfeed News.