A woman who reportedly apportion a video to social media of her daughter licking a tongue depressor nerve at a medical facility in Jacksonville , Florida and replacing it in a jarful of unused ones was arrested this hebdomad on a felony charge .

Cori Ward , 30 , allegedly filmed the telecasting at the All About Kids & Families Medical Center on Tuesday and upload it to her secret Snapchat before it pass away viral , WJXTreported Thursday . The video depicts a mansion in an exam room secern patients not to touch the aesculapian supplies before a hand can be seen removing the lid from a jounce of tongue depressors reaching in to have-to doe with them .

The camera then pans to Ward ’s daughter , who hit into the jar , removes one of the depressors , drub it , and retrovert it to the jounce . She pat the jar before replacing the lid . The adeptness confirmed to NBC - affiliateWTLVthat Ward ’s daughter was a patient role at the aesculapian center .

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The medical office told newsperson Beth Rousseau in astatementthat after learning of the incident , “ we contacted law enforcement to request a full and thoroughgoing investigating . In addition , we immediately murder all materials and containers from the specific examination room and re - hygienize our full facility . ”

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office , Ward was pick up on a felony charge of tampering with a consumer production without regard for possible expiry or corporal injury . She is not eligible for bond , and records listed her next court date as Friday .

Prior to her arrest , Ward took to Facebook on Wednesday to address the incident before come along to cancel her account statement , accord to WTLV . Ward wrote in a post that she “ did n’t acknowledge was that there was a ‘ whacking challenge , ’ ” refer to another viral video of a girllicking a tubof Blue Bell ice cream in a store before seemingly returning it to a deep freezer .

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Texas police have since locate the young woman apparently behind the video , but because she is a minor , her casing will reportedly beturned overto the Texas Juvenile Justice Department . Acopycat videoby a Louisiana man has landed him in jail , though he reportedly has a receipt for it and claims he purchased it afterward .

consort to WTLV , Ward write on Facebook that she shared the video “ on my personal Snapchat with my 20 - something Quaker , where someone allowed another individual to video it . I did n’t post it on Facebook or YouTube as a challenge or whatever . ”

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William Duplessie

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