Calgary woman facing charges after child abuse shown during live-stream

An assault charge has been laid in Calgary after a live-streamed video that police say showed two young children being physically abused by their mother as they interrupted her online game-playing.

The department’s child abuse unit started investigating after police received several tips on Tuesday about a video that had been captured through an online gaming website.

Investigators say the woman appears to roughly handle her two children and at one point bites her 14-month-old son.

Her online persona was tracked to a Calgary home where a man, a woman and two children were found.