Dad allegedly pulls trolley in supermarket with his daughter's hair wrapped around handle

The young girl allegedly yelled "please stop. I promise I won't do it again. Please stop!" as her father pulled the shopping trolley with her hair around the handle. Photo / Erika Burch / Facebook

A father allegedly wrapped his 5-year-old daughter's hair around the handle of a shopping trolley and dragged her through a supermarket.

The young child was crying "please stop. I promise I won't do it again. Please stop."

The incident at a Walmart in Cleveland, Texas, was captured on camera by alarmed shoppers Erika and Robert Burch and is now being investigated by police as child endangerment.

"People are telling me I'm wrong for stepping up for this little girl, but you can discipline a child without dragging them by the hair on their head, especially in WalMart," Erika Burch told KTRK.

Erika Burch said in a Facebook post that she and her husband were buying food for their children's school lunches when her husband pointed out that a man was dragging his daughter by the hair on her head, by wrapping it around the shopping trolley.

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"She is begging him to stop ... 'please stop, I promise I won't do it again, please stop'."

She claims she told the father to stop what he was doing with his daughter and he told her to "mind my own business".

"I have three little girls of my own," Erika Burch told the Chronicle. "I'll be damned if I'll ever let anybody pull them by the hair of their heads."

Erika Burch telephoned the police and an officer who was in the store told her that for there to be any investigation there had to be visible injuries.

She published the pictures on her Facebook page in the hope they would alert authorities.

Cleveland Police said on its Facebook page that it had received "numerous calls" about a girl being pulled by her hair at Walmart.

Cleveland Police Chief Darrel Broussard told the Chronicle that police received a call about the incident about 4:45pm on Monday. The man, whom Broussard did not identify, told police that his three children including the 5-year-old girl, had been disruptive in the store, and that holding her by the hair was his method of disciplining her.