He did WHAT?! Man says he tossed his toddler into a pool to "teach her a lesson"

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- An Arizona man has been arrested for child abuse -- accused of throwing his 23-month-old daughter into a pool...to "teach her a lesson."

Police say the man threw the child into a pool because she had dropped a five-week-old puppy into the pool, and it died -- saying he wanted to "teach her a lesson about playing around water."

The child's mother is furious.

She says the two have been on and off for about a decade -- and have two children together.

"I am very angry and I'm very hurt -- and I just hope that my kids are going to be okay from this. People make mistakes, but this is past a poor decision and a mistake. This is a child," the child's mother told 3TV in Phoenix.

According to 3TV, surveillance video captured the man tossing the child into a pool. A woman is then seen going into the pool to get the child out.

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