CHICAGO _ A Skokie, Ill., mother watched in horror as her 7-month-old son's nanny put the baby down in his crib, grabbed an arm and leg, whipped the child around, and hit him so hard he cried, prosecutors said Sunday.
All that was captured in real-time Aug. 26 on a remote baby monitoring video system the mother had installed to feel closer to her child while pumping breast milk at work, prosecutors said Sunday in bond court.
When the battery occurred, the nanny only stopped when the mother told her to, through a voice-communication feature of the video system, according to prosecutors.
Mussarat P. Khan, the 60-year-old nanny, had been the child's caregiver for two and a half months, prosecutors said. She had worked as a nanny for eight years and lived in Skokie for more than a decade, according to her public defender. A few days before the Aug. 26 incident, Khan allegedly slapped the baby across the face, which was also caught on security camera footage.
She was arrested Aug. 30 and has no previous violent convictions, according to court records.
The reading of the charges elicited audible gasps in the courtroom Sunday. Facing Judge Arthur Wesley Willis, Khan appeared visibly shaken.
Willis set Khan's bail at $2,000, with the condition that she have no further contact with the child or mother, and no contact with anyone under the age of 18, with the exception of family members.
"The only reason she stopped was because the child's mother had video and told her to stop," Willis said.
