Honolulu police said they have opened an investigation into a case of alleged child abuse after a video went viral on social media.

On Thursday evening, a witness scrolling through Instagram saw a post of a woman allegedly assaulting a girl. The witness was able to identify the woman and child and called 911.

The Honolulu Police Department said today that officers have identified a 34-year-old woman as the child’s mother, and taken her two children – an 11-year-old, autistic girl and a 3-year-old boy — into police custody and transferred them to Child Welfare Services.

The viral post, shared on @hhnewz, asked, “What would you do in this situation if you saw this??” as a woman seated in a car at Kapolei Commons appears to yank the child by her hair so that she falls onto her knees on the

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