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A Facebook video has spurred outrage -- and the attention of law enforcement -- after an Allentown day care facility worker is heard urging children to use explicit language.

Outraged mother Jhanee Ivy said she posted the video on Facebook to expose the wrongdoing and to alert parents whose young kids are in it, being prodded by a staff member.

"I feel like you should be able to send your toddlers to day care without having to worry about people doing this to them," Ivy said on social media.

In the video, the staffer at Creative Minds Daycare Academy at 950 N. Sixth St. in Allentown can be heard repeatedly saying "What are they?" as the camera pans to four children in a group.

The children -- they appear to be between 2 and 4 years old -- are shown on camera shouting into the camera "ugly bitch" and "f------ bitch."

Ivy said she was disgusted by what she saw.

She said she was criticized for posting the video, which she saw after the day care worker shared it with friends on social media.

"Shame on the PARENTS who are saying I'm wrong , because they're protecting the WOMAN BEHIND the camera," Ivy said on Facebook. "She is a grown woman older than I am, she knows right from wrong! And common sense says that you DON'T teach toddlers that type of behavior. It isn't funny."

The day care center worker has been fired and the Allentown Police Department is investigating, 69News reported.

Besides police, Mayor Ed Pawlowski said investigators from the state Department of Human Services visited the day care center Friday.

"This is horrible," he tweeted.

This is horrible...the city sent investigators their yesterday with DHS



Daycare kids encouraged to curse on... https://t.co/yLHexFBGhk — Ed Pawlowski (@Ed_Pawlowski) October 8, 2016

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