A 24-year-old mother from Helsingborg, Sweden, was recently convicted of harassment after cracking an egg on her daughter’s forehead for a TikTok video.
In 2023, a controversial trend went viral on TikTok – parents all over the world started filming themselves pranking their small children by cracking eggs on their foreheads. Many saw this as harmless fun, even though in certain cases, the kids hardly ever joined their parents in laughter. But one particular case in Sweden recently made national news headlines after a young mother was convicted of harassment for humiliating her daughter by cracking an egg on her forehead for the amusement of her viewers. The 24-year-old woman insisted that it was just a silly prank and that everyone was doing it on TikTok at the time, but that wasn’t enough to impress the judge.
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The incident occurred last summer, when the unnamed 24-year-old mother told her daughter that they were going to bake an apple cake together and film the process for TikTok. At one point, the young wannabe influencer picked up an egg and cracked it against her daughter’s forehead, causing the yolk to run down her face. The surprised girl told her laughing mother that it hurt and asked her to stop.
The woman’s video eventually got around 100,000 views on TikTok, but one of the people who saw it reported it to the police and the young mother became a suspect in a harassment case against her own daughter.
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“When I saw the video, I thought: you simply don’t do that to a child. To record and humiliate the child and then broadcast it to thousands of viewers – I find that incredibly degrading, and that’s my personal opinion,” prosecutor Cecilia Andersson told journalists.
“It’s a little girl who thinks she’s going to bake an apple cake with her mom and is happy and excited about it, and then all of a sudden she gets an egg cracked in her forehead. This is a reckless act,” the prosecutor added.
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The young mother defended herself, claiming that she was just repeating a harmless prank that was trendy on TikTok, but that didn’t sway the judge. Last month, the woman was found guilty of harassing her daughter by a Helsingborg District Court and fined SEK 20,000 ($2070), payable to her daughter.
