A New York mom was shocked when her Ring camera revealed that her nanny, a once-trusted friend, had been beating and abusing her 2-year-old son.
Kristla Holmes checked her Ring camera while at work on Monday and watched a recording of babysitter Chantal Mason inside her Newburgh home tossing her infant on his back and slapping him, CBS News reports.
Mason could be heard yelling “Be quiet,” and “Lay your a– down and go to sleep,” at the sobbing 2-year-old.
Officials said the slapping went on for longer than the short clip aired by TV stations.
The camera also caught Mason resting her foot on the boy’s head as she lay on Holmes’ couch.
Holmes said the abuse and breach of trust served as a warning for parents to be cautious about who they leave their kids with.
“You can’t trust nobody. You cannot trust your kids’ godparents. You can’t trust a long friend. You can’t trust nobody,” she told the local outlet. “Watch your own kids. Protect your own kids.”
Holmes described Mason as a long-time family friend of 15 years who had been in charge of watching her kids before, someone she would have never suspected of hurting her children.
That all changed when Mason got the Ring alert, with the mother calling the babysitter to check up on her.
“She told me that he just woke up, she fed him, and he was laying on the couch watching TV,” Holmes said. “So when I checked the camera, that’s not what he was doing. He was hysterically crying.”
Holmes said she then watched on in horror as the Ring camera captured the abuse.
The frantic mother rushed home to her son, who suffered minor bruising and called the police, who arrested Mason for endangering the welfare of a child.
She was booked at the Orange County Jail, in Goshen, and released on Tuesday. Mason could not be immediately reached for comment.
