'world's most hated mum' who posted a picture of her Down's Syndrome toddler son in a washing machine has finally said sorry.

Courtney Stewart, 21, who was also filmed throwing the boy around a bouncy castle, went on This Morning to apologise .
But she told hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford her “biggest mistake” was posting the photo on Facebook.
The item was trailed with the tag-line: “The world’s most-hated mum?”

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Shocking: The picture of Caleb posted on Facebook

The Daily Record revealed the washing machine photo last month. Within days, we uncovered footage of the bouncy castle incident.
Stewart appeared with son Caleb. He is two-and-a-half and has Down’s syndrome.

To protect the child, the boy was never named nor how the pair were related until now.
Stewart said: “Every day, I make mistakes as a mother, every day, everybody does, and I learn from these mistakes, every single day.
“If anything was to ever happen to my son, I’d be the one who would have to live with it, if I inflicted that on him.

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Smiling now: Courtney Stewart with son Caleb

“We’ve been through so much, Caleb’s life is unbelievably precious to us, the fact he’s up walking about, and he talks and he sings and he goes to nursery, loves being a brother.“
Holmes said: “There’s two mistakes really. First of all, the child shouldn’t have been in there in the first place, which you accept?”
Stewart said: “Definitely …”
Holmes added: “And the second was you put it on social media.”
Stewart said: “That was my biggest mistake. It was very naive to think I can just post whatever I want and nothing’s going to come of it.”
Holmes said: “It didn’t stop there – video footage emerged and this maybe really damages you. Let’s play it then see what you have to say.”