THE sickening moment a man savagely beat a toddler before demanding the tiny child stop crying has been caught on a doorbell camera.
Texas man Paul Thames was captured carrying out the brutal attack on a three-year-old boy outside an apartment building in Waco on Friday.
The 29-year-old man can be seen picking up the boy and hitting him at least five times with a closed fist to the torso.
Shocking footage then shows him pulling the child up by the head and neck and asking him: “Are you going to stop playing?”
He then walked away from the boy.
Waco police confirmed Thames was the man in the disturbing video and said he had surrendered himself to the authorities a short time after the horrific ordeal.
He has since been charged with injury to a child, which is a third-degree felony.
Cops were called to investigate the assault at the apartment building at 2.50pm on Friday afternoon.
The little boy was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance, where he was evaluated by medical staff.
Waco police told KWTX the boy was later released.
Thames was booked into the McLennan County Jail with a bond of $200,000.
The relationship between Thames and the boy has not been made clear.
The horrifying footage has surfaced after another shocking video shows a cruel carer slapping a disabled child multiple times.
The disgusting video shows nurse Bruno Valenzuela violently slapping the disabled five-year-old patient repeatedly.
Valenzuela was only arrested after the disturbing video was broadcast by a local news channel.
Valenzuela, 31, attacked the youngster while visiting the child’s family home in Port Jefferson, Long Island.
Shocking surveillance footage shows the nurse, who was wearing headphones, ignoring the boy’s cries.
Valenzuela can then be seen getting visibly frustrated, before striking the child multiple times on the chest while shouting at him.
As the boy’s crying intensifies, the carer picks him up and shakes him while repeatedly yelling at him to “relax”.
The attack on December 20 left the child with bruises across his chest, and was reported to police two days later.
Valenzuela was only arrested late on Thursday, however – weeks after the incident.
He was detained hours after the sick footage was aired on News 12’s Long Island broadcast.
The boy’s dad, Christopher Brower, told the New York Post: “It took news reports for the Suffolk police to go and make an arrest for my son.”
