A man accused of horrific sex abuse against a boy that was allegedly captured in a viral video

A man accused of horrific sex abuse against a boy that was allegedly captured in a viral video has now been cleared of all wrongdoing, according to Colombian authorities.

In a video that sparked global outrage and went viral on social media, the man, 36, was filmed interacting with a young boy on a balcony in Bogota.

The woman recording the scene on her cellphone began yelling, believing she was watching the boy being sexually abused. Others soon joined in, cursing the man and demanding he stop.

Other footage on social media shows an angry mob of locals watching as the foreigner was taken away by police.

Now authorities in the South American country are saying the man never abused the boy and was in fact helping him.

‘Sexual violence against children is completely ruled out,’ Astrid Cáceres, director of the ICBF (Colombian institute for family welfare), told a Colombian news agency.

The boy on the balcony, and his two siblings who were also inside the apartment in the custody of the man, were medically evaluated and tested, officials added.

‘All forensic, physical, and psychological tests; interviews and other expert analyses carried out, and the judicial police activities performed, showed that there was no sexual abuse or physical violence. There are no elements that indicate criminal conduct,’ the nation’s top prosecutors said in a statement.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro told press that the American man had taken the boy outside on the balcony because he was choking on food.

‘It’s not very clear whether there was choking or not, but as far as we understand, the point is that the child got out to breathe,’ prosecutors said.

‘This was an incident that occurred with the objects they were playing with, a conflict with the (sister,) and that’s when the child needed to get some air to breathe.’

The Texas man was released around 1 am this morning from police custody, according to Noticias Caracol.