HOBOKEN — Hoboken police were notified on Aug. 2 after parents caught a nanny allegedly smacking a 6-month-old infant in a Maxwell Place residence.
Police say the parents reviewed a tape and saw a nanny they hired from a website allegedly assaulting their infant son. The tape shows the nanny allegedly smacking the baby in the arm four times and then kicking him.
Parents confronted the nanny about the incident, and said that the nanny claimed she wasn’t feeling well. She was fired on the spot, according to police.
The case is under investigation.