Mom Explains Video Of Child Rolling Eyes
POSTED: Friday, July 13, 2007
UPDATED: 10:11 am CDT July 13,
2007
HOUSTON -- The mother of a girl seen acting strangely in a video said it has all been a misunderstanding, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.
"I don't know how it got out to the Internet," mother Ana Segovia said. "I did not authorize the one who put it on the Internet to let it be there."
The video showed Rosavla Mejia, 2 1/2, rolling her eyes and sitting on the floor of a moving vehicle.
Segovia said the video was recorded during a trip home from South Padre Island on June 17. She said she thought it had been erased.
Some of the women can be heard laughing and seeming to suggest the drug Ecstasy might be responsible for the tot's behavior.
"Cookie, stop rolling, girl ...You shouldn't have popped no x," says one of the young women, as she squeezes the little girl's cheeks and taps her on her head, telling her to stop rolling her eyes.
Some people have said the girls on the video know a little too much about illegal drug use.
"They go to school and when they're in that environment they actually think that drugs are drugs and everybody does them," Segovia said.
Segovia said her daughter can roll her eyes on command. She told Rosavla to roll her eyes for Local 2's cameras, and they instantly rolled back just like in the video.
"It's because she saw this horror movie," Segovia said. "The movie was called Grudge II."
Harris County and Jackson County authorities became involved after several clues in the video seemed to show that the video had been filmed in the southeast Texas area. A map of Jackson County can be seen in the pocket of the car's front seat. An announcer from KHCB FM, a Houston Christian radio station, and an instrumental version of Jesus Loves Me can be heard in the background. The signal from the 100,000-watt radio station reaches into Jackson County.
The Jackson County sheriff said he was concerned by what he saw.
"She's on the floor of the van -- no child protective seat there. Her environment is certainly in question," Sheriff A.J. Louderback said.
Segovia said all of the seats in the van were occupied. She said she held Rosavla on the trip, except for when the video was recorded.
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