Chinese nanny caught on home security camera ‘abusing’ 10-month-old infant
- Video triggers police investigation and an online conversation among mothers about the struggles of combining career and caring for children
A video purportedly captured by a home security camera and apparently showing a nanny abusing a 10-month-old boy has gone viral in China, triggering a police investigation and an online conversation among working mothers.
In the video, which is understood to have been recorded in Changsha, in the central province of Hunan, a woman in a black shirt can be seen hurling the child on to a sofa and holding him upside down before dropping him head first on to the floor.
According to the person who this week posted the video to Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, it was originally shared by a relative of the child to a closed chat group.
“The child’s parents wanted to report it to the police, but were not sure if this qualified for a police complaint. The nanny even wanted to settle it privately, so I posted the video for them,” she wrote.
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The internet user who shared the video on Weibo said the infant’s parents had hired a friend of the child’s grandmother to take care of him in the morning while they were at work.
The nanny did not know there was a security camera in the flat.