Staten Island prosecutors have charged a 52-year-old nanny with endangering the welfare of a child after a hidden camera recorded her slapping the face of a 5-month-old girl.
The video, recorded on Jan. 28 in the Woodlawn Avenue home of the Mardakhaev family and posted to YouTube that same day, showed the nanny striking the baby, Sabrina, as she appears to cry in her baby seat.
She can be seen less than a minute later handling the baby roughly as she picks her up and walks from the room.
Prosecutors identified the nanny as Mamura Nasirova. She was arraigned Monday on the misdemeanor charges, which also include resisting arrest, and is due back in court on Friday. She is being held on $1,000 bail or bond at Rikers Island.
The authorities said that the camera had been secreted in a carbon monoxide detector by Sabrina’s parents, and that her other had watched the footage on a remote feed. It was not clear who posted the video to YouTube. Staten Island prosecutors who had seen the video said the version posted on YouTube was the same as they had been shown, a law enforcement official said.
