Erika Burch took this picture of the girl being dragged by her hair

Police are investigating a shocking case of child cruelty in which a father appears to be dragging his daughter around a supermarket with her hair tied to a trolley.

He continued with his shopping despite the girl begging for him to stop and other shoppers telling him to let her free.

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Erika Burch took pictures of the incident and uploaded them to Facebook while police at a branch of Walmart in Cleveland, Ohio, have said they are investigating.

Erika wrote: ‘He had her hair wrapped around the buggy dragging her! She is begging him to stop! She was saying “Please stop, I promise I wont do it again please stop!”


The girl was heard begging the man to stop (Picture: Erika Burch)

He continued to walk around the supermarket despite other people asking him to stop (Picture: Erika Burch)

‘I took my phone out snapped pictures and then told him to let the little girls hair go! He told me to mind my own business! I said no im not! Right now this little girl is my business and you need to let her hair go now! He said “I grew up just fine!”.’

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She said that a police officer at the scene would not intervene because none of the girl’s hair was missing and there were no signs of bruising.



She claimed that the officer said ‘he has the right to discipline his children’.

However Cleveland Police Department later posted on Facebook to say that they were investigating

The Cleveland Police Department has received numerous calls in regards to a child having her hair pulled last night at… Posted by Cleveland Police Department on Tuesday, September 20, 2016

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