A 27-year-old man in Florida is accused of attacking a small sleeping child after he was allegedly caught on home surveillance footage grabbing the child from his bed and placing him in a "chokehold."

Dominic Fisher was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with two counts of cruelty toward a child by aggravated child abuse, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

"This video is beyond disturbing," Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement following the arrest. "I'm disgusted by this low-life and his senseless act against an innocent sleeping child. We will do everything we can to ensure this man faces the harshest penalties possible," said Sheriff Marceno.

The sheriff's office put out a news release accompanied by a 29-second clip showing parts of the alleged attack

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