The nanny cops have been looking for since video allegedly showed her beating three young children she had been entrusted to watch has been arrested, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed Wednesday.
Authorities had been looking for the sitter, previously identified as La’Keysha Jackson for the last few weeks. Specific details on charges she might be facing weren’t immediately clear, nor was it clear if she had retained an attorney.
The abuse was uncovered in early May, though relatives say it likely went on for months. She had been caring for the children, ages 2, 4 and 6, for the last year. The sitter, identified as La’Keysha Jackson, was assigned to help in the home by an agency partnering with the Administration for Children’s Services.
ACS says the provider fired Jackson after learning of the video, which was from a home surveillance camera, and a review is underway.
“We are taking these despicable actions very seriously, and we have commenced a review of the contracted provider’s procedures,” ACS said in a statement. “The provider terminated the employee and, with the NYPD, we are investigating this incident.”
The video is disturbing. Behind the blurred images are little boys wailing as their babysitter beats them with a thick leather belt. Their mother, Geraldine Jaramillo, says she feels awful she wasn’t there to protect them.
Jaramillo says she set up the nanny camera as a precaution, that she couldn’t have imagined the assigned nanny the family adored for the last year could be hurting the children. She says the kids always looked OK when she got home or were calm or sleeping or watching TV, and as a single mom she appreciated the help.
The children’s grandmother alerted everyone to the video after she got an alert on her phone.
“I see her pulling her belt from her little backpack and I couldn’t … it was too much … it was so disturbing I was in tears,” grandmother Sara Enamorado says.
The family claims other videos show physical assault on at least 10 occasions.
Their grandfather says the nanny would hit the kids with a hanger, “grab ’em and flip ’em on the couch on the bed, tried to suffocate the kids and everything.”
The children were already victims of domestic violence at the hands of their father, according to the family’s attorney.
发表回复