speaking out. talking to dave roberts, reporter at cnn affiliated ketv. because she's a minor, 16, we're concealing her identity and bleeping out her name from his report. >> the video he had a clean diaper, the house was clean. like they said, kids cuss. every kid does it. so he's a smart little boy. and all the cussing he did, he doesn't do that unless the person that told him to do that, my son doesn't cuss like that. i don't allow it. >> reporter: the 16-year-old mom says a friend of her brother filmed the video while she was in another room. >> he was wrong for doing it, posting the video of him and got us into a situation. that video was not -- it wasn't me. it was a person that came to my house and recorded it. so for everybody that thinks i'm a bad mother i'm not. i'm a good mother to my son. i teach him a lot. he's very smart. >> reporter: on wednesday, child protective services placed both [ mute ] and her son in protective custody. it's not the first time the state stepped in. in june the department of health and human services started