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A mum is facing child abuse charges after a video showing her allegedly driving off and abandoning her five-year-old daughter in a street emerged.

A witness filmed the heartbreaking moment the little girl pleads with her mother not to leave her alone.

In the images, the child can be heard screaming at the red car belonging to her mum.

The woman in the car appears to responds to the little girl, but it isn’t possible to hear exactly what is being said.

But as the car pulls off the girl’s howls become louder and more piercing and she is seen running in the road beside the vehicle.

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Clinging to the vehicle as it turns the corner the child, dressed in a white top and dark shorts, tugs at the front passenger door which appears to be locked and desperately bangs on the window while repeatedly pleading to be let in.

The disturbing footage was filmed in a residential on January 31 in Curitiba, south Brazil.

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Through her cries the child can be heard begging: “Forgive me mum, please mum, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

When the distraught girl realises her pleas are not working, she dashes in front of the car in a bid to prevent the driver from leaving.

The vehicle, which has been slowly moving forward throughout this upsetting scene, stops abruptly as the child runs in front.

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However, as soon as the frantic lass appears on the opposite side, the driver accelerates away, almost sending the kid sprawling to the floor.

The video ends with the car disappearing down the road with the child running after it.

According to local media the girl appealed for help from a passing man but was picked up by her mother shortly afterwards.

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Detective Jose Barreto, from the Police Protection Centre for Children and Adolescent Victims of Crime (Nucria) said: “We have opened an investigation into this case and the mother is possibly facing criminal charges of neglect and child abuse.

“From what we can see in the video, it appears the child has been mistreated and her life exposed to risks and danger.”

According to the mother’s lawyer, she never had the ‘intention to abandon’ the child and claims she did not realise her daughter wasn’t in the car when she drove off.

Her lawyer said: “The mother says the child had been disobedient and argumentative.

"She turned up the car radio ‘to see if (her daughter) would sit still’ and ‘she drove off without realising the girl was not in the car."