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WATCH: Video Shows Baby Smoking Marijuana | Heavy.com

20-year-old Brianna Ashanti Lofton, of Raleigh, North Carolina was arrested after a video she posted to Facebook showing a one-year-old baby smoking a marijuana cigarillo, commonly known as a blunt, went viral.

The baby could be heard cooing as an adult's hand delivers a blunt to the child's mouth.

Afterwards, the baby can be seen puffing and exhaling the smoke, as shown in the video above.

A police warrant obtained by the News & Observer said Lofton stands accused of "causing, encouraging and aiding a one-year-old child to smoke a marijuana blunt.

Lofton was subsequently charged with two counts of felony child abuse, contributing to delinquency and possession of marijuana, a statement from the Raleigh Police Department reads:.

Raleigh Police Department officers have arrested Brianna Ashanti Lofton (DOB 10/20/97), the mother of the baby seen smoking in a video posted on Facebook.

She was charged with two counts of Felony Child Abuse, Contributing to Delinquency, and Possession of Marijuana, and transported to the Wake County Detention Center.

The baby has been placed with Wake County Child Protective Services.

Raleigh residents and others began posting the video and comments on the Department's Facebook page just after 9:30 a.m.

today.

'We appreciate the public's help in this matter,' said RPD Lieutenant Jason Hodge.

'We welcome and encourage any assistance the public is willing to give us at all times.'.

"Big thanks to everyone who posted information about the smoking mother and baby," the Raleigh Police Department wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

"Thanks to your willingness to get involved, the child is now safe and the mother is in police custody.".

Some are taking to the woman's Facebook page, where she goes by the name of "Bree Bhadd," to express their outrage towards the occurrence.

"I just wanna tap this b*tch head.