Parents who secretly filmed their son’s room found ‘trusted nanny’ assualting baby

 

Parents who installed a CCTV camera in their son’s room got the shock of their lives when they horridly watched their son being manhandled and assaulted by the very nanny in whose care he was entrusted.

According to Daily Mail UK;

When Rowena and Jack Churchland sat down to watch footage from the video camera they had installed in their son’s nursery they expected to find nothing of particular concern.

They had, after all, only put it there as a precaution, hoping it would give Rowena peace of mind after she had, reluctantly, appointed a nanny to look after their precious son one day a week while she returned to work in the family business.

Instead, what they saw on that chilly January Saturday night horrified them. There, captured with dreadful clarity, was their 18-month-old son being assaulted by the woman they  had trusted to care for him.

For nearly an hour, restless in his cot over what was meant to be his lunchtime nap, Olly received no loving words or reassurance.

Instead, he was manhandled several times by his stonily silent nanny before being picked up, flung roughly against the mobile hanging above his cot so that he banged his head, and smacked hard on the bottom three times, making his body shake.

The horrified Churchlands could barely believe what they were seeing: here was a woman who had been looking after their son for 15 months, losing her temper on the first time she had been filmed. Shocked and upset, they took the footage to the police, who arrested the nanny. The Crown Prosecution Service then charged her with cruelty to a person under 16 years.

The case was heard at Southwark Crown Court last October — yet although Rowena’s nanny accepted she had assaulted Olly, the jury returned a not guilty verdict on the cruelty charge, and she walked free.

Now, the couple are waiting to hear if their request for a review of the case will be granted. In the meantime, Rowena must constantly cross paths with the woman who assaulted her son, as they both have children at the same school.

She says quietly: ‘Seeing her every day brings it all back. Both Jack and I feel powerless. Our baby boy was assaulted, but it seems all we can do is accept it and try to move on.’

Source: Daily Mail UK