Crime & Safety

NYC Nanny Sought For Beating 3 Kids, Abuse Caught On Video: Report

The alleged abuse was captured on a Nest security camera.

The family is filing a Notice of Claim with the city and ACS.
The family is filing a Notice of Claim with the city and ACS. (Kristin Borden/Patch)

NEW YORK CITY — Police are searching for a nanny accused of assaulting three children she was babysitting last month.

The abuse was caught on video, according to police and multiple media reports.

Geraldine Jaramillo told the New York Post and PIX11 they discovered that La’Keysha Jackson had been striking the children — ages 6, 4 and 2 — with a belt through a Nest security camera.

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Jackson had been hired as a babysitter via a contractor paid for by the city’s Administration for Children’s Services. She had been working for the family in the Bronx for a year before the abuse was discovered, according to the reports.

On May 7, the children’s grandparents allegedly witnessed Jackson hitting the two eldest children with a belt 58 times inside the family's Bronx apartment.

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Additional camera footage revealed other incidents of abuse, including the 2-year-old being slammed into a bed, and other physical and verbal abuse, according to PIX11.

Jackson was reported to the police after the family saw the video footage, but according to them nothing has been taken care of and the babysitter has not been arrested yet.

The family told PIX11 that they are filing a Notice of Claim with the city and ACS.

A spokesperson for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office told the outlet that a warrant had been issued for Jackson’s arrest on Monday.

ACS in a statement said "the provider terminated the employee and, with the NYPD, we are investigating this incident.”

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