Mom claims flight attendant told her to ‘glue’ mask to toddler

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A Virginia Beach mother is speaking out after a mask incident that she said involved her 2-year-old on a recent Southwest Airlines flight.

Ali Cleek was on an Aug. 12 flight from Orlando to Norfolk, Virginia, with her husband and two children, 4 and 2. Her 2-year-old daughter, Drew, was crying and would not keep on her mask, Cleek told FOX News.

“Drew is a thumb sucker and her only way she biologically knows how to soothe herself is by sucking her thumb which is damn near impossible with a mask,” Cleek posted to Instagram after the incident.

Cleek and her husband held Drew down, she said, trying to get her to wear her mask while two flight attendants stood over them, watching.

What happened next, Cleek wrote on Instagram after the incident, had her “still shaking.”

Cleek said she was given two options…

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