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TikTok personality and mommy influencer Hannah Hiatt is being investigated by police following reports made via Child Protective Services.
According to People, Hiatt, known online as “Nurse Hannah,” was the subject of “numerous reports through Child Protective Service and police,” after posting a video of her 2-year-old son, James, appearing to “flinch and hide his face while his dad walks toward him” via TikTok. Utah’s Ogden Police Department spoke with the outlet on Tuesday, December 10. (The since-deleted video was posted last month.)
The police department told the outlet that “there is an open, active investigation” into Hiatt, who first rose to fame after revealing the 17 dirty diapers she had lying around her house in October, and that “a detective [is] assigned to the case.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the Ogden’s Utah Police Department for comment.
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The outlet noted that the investigation comes as a result of “a slew” of reports made to authorities after the video went live. Before it was removed, the TikTok attracted hundreds of comments detailing fans’ concern for the toddler.
A follow-up video posted by Hiatt on November 30 started with her addressing the attention her original video received. “The fact that I even have to address this right now is kind of insane,” the influencer said.
Hannah, who often posts about her “lazy husband,” Braxton Hiatt, and has attracted more than 437,000 TikTok followers as a result, continued, “If you were to know me in real life, this whole lazy husband thing, it’s satire.”
She then offered followers more detail into her husband’s personality, describing him as the “sweetest, nicest, kindest, most loving, most nurturing father in the entire world.”
“He [Braxton] is playing on the ground with James, like, 90% of the day,” Hannah added. “If that man is not laughing, having fun, teasing him, playing with him, whatever it is, then something’s wrong because those two have the strongest bond … that I know of anyone else.”
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Hannah’s initial follow-up video sparked a second follow-up video, posted just one day later on December 1, which rejected fan comparisons to former social media influencer Ruby Franke, who was convicted of four counts of aggravated child abuse in February. “The fact that I’m even being compared right now to Ruby Franke is absolutely comical,” Hannah said in the second video. “It’s hilarious, really. We live in a world … where people will turn nothing into something.”
Comments were disabled on the two follow-up videos.
As for Hiatt’s October “17 diapers” video, the social media star told People at the time that she did not predict the post would resonate the way it did. “I just pulled out my phone and filmed a funny video. I didn’t think it was going to be controversial or honestly attract attention whatsoever.”