Edited by: TJVNews.com
In a stunning confession to the New York City police, a live-in nanny at a Brooklyn home who was arrested for assaulting a 3-month-old baby and leaving him with bleeding in his brain, admitted to cops that she violently shook the infant.
According to a report in the New York Post, Alexis Schultz, who was hired to care for the baby and his sister, she told police, “I rocked and shooked the baby, his head was bobbing back and forth and the baby was crying when I was doing it.”
A high ranking police source told the NY Post that the nanny told investigators she was feeling overwhelmed by her duties when she jostled the fragile infant on December 28th in the home in which she was employed on East 9th Street and Avenue P in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
The Post further reported that the infants’ parents told investigators that their son threw up all of his formula after he was given a bottle on December 29th. The next day, the baby was still sick and his parents brought him to the doctor, believing it was a stomach virus. The infant’s condition did not improve by New Year’s Day, and the doctor advised the parents to have the child checked in the hospital.
An examination revealed that he was suffering from an old bleed and a new bleed in his brain — indicating he had been shaken before. He had also suffered retinal hemorrhages in both eyes, according to the Post report.
The NYPD Brooklyn South Community Affairs Unit was in touch with the family and working to ensure a proper investigation was taking place.
The Post reported that Schultz was arraigned Monday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on one count each of reckless assault of a child, second-degree assault and third-degree assault. She was released without bail to pretrial supervision.
In 2018, the NY Daily News reported that a babysitter violently shook a 14-month-old boy while she cared for him at a Brooklyn home — an apparent assault that was caught on the parents’ nanny cam, according to cops.
Angela Petrella, 38, faced harassment and child endangerment charges for shaking the child inside his parent’s Engert Ave. home in Greenpoint.
The infant’s father told police that when he reviewed nanny cam footage, he saw Petrella picking up the little boy, shaking him until he began to cry and then putting him on a changing table.
