from our n ailiate in orlando, michelle meredith has the story. >> it was just a joke. >> reporter:yn caitlolf said she had no ideas thi video sticking her son's headn the toilet would get the reaction it did. oh, but it did. reaten to do what to you? >> threatened to kill , murtd me, shoot me, shove my head in the toilet, bury me halfway alive, cut my head off. >> reporter: it started last week when caitlyn says as a prank she gave her 3-year-old son what she calls a swirly, toilet flushing, head dangling. n the video you hear her son seemingly scream his lungs out. but caitlyn says he's not g, screame's laughing. >> it was just a joke. and i mean, everybodys like, oh, his face didn't go in -- it's not a dirty toilet. it was clean, you know. he wasn't being tortured in any way. >> reporter: but the leesburg policeen departm and the state of florida rare not lorenzo-veraing. both have launched investigations. caitlyn sayser 10-year-old son shot this video. caitlyn said she sent the video to a former friend, that former friend sent the video to another woman, and that woman posted it o