Man Charged with Child Abuse for Dunking Girl at Beach

0:00It's April 5th. This is Durham News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. A 38-year-old man from Long South Carolina faces child abuse charges after Beachgoer saw him holding a seven-year-old girl upside down. In the surf at Sunset Beach Pier in North Carolina, dunking her head under the water. This went down around 6.30 p.m. on Friday and investigators say he did it out of anger as punishment while the girl was under his watch. This is called 9-1-1 right away, reporting the child screaming and crying as her face states emerged against her will and videos of the whole thing quickly spread on social media. Police identified the man as Christopher Maurice Lee, who's dating the girl's mother, and he was there with Leslie Suzanne McClam, a 26-year-old from nearby Calabash, who's the child's parent, both got hit with misdemeanor child abuse charges. The most serious kind for that, level. Now the North Carolina Department of Social Services is teaming up with cops for a full probe, making sure this doesn't happen again while the case moves forward and court.