French father beats month old infant, posts photos on Facebook ‘for fun’

London: What seemed as ‘fun’ to post the photos of his one-month-old infant showing injuries on Facebook, a french father has been booked on abuse charges.

When asked about this act, he revealed that he had hit the child because he could not stand the baby's constant crying and had shared the photo on Facebook ‘for fun’.

A friend of the couple alerted the police in Aisne in northern France after watching the ‘abnormal’ photo on the social networking site, Le Parisien reported.

Later a police probe led to both parents being charged with violence and abuse on a minor.

Police confirmed that the baby was ‘in a bad state’.

According to the investigators, the mother did not alert police because she was worried that her husband would leave her, the report added.