Jerusalem nanny recorded verbally abusing toddlers, family says authorities have not acted for nearly two months

A Jerusalem caregiver was secretly recorded verbally abusing three one-year-old children, including her own granddaughter, after one mother grew suspicious and placed a recording device. The footage, described by the family as shocking, captured the caregiver shouting insults and curses at the infants, including, “Shut up, you bitch, sleep,” “Do you want a stick?” and “Your mother is a thousand bitches.”

The exposure began not with a single incident but with what the mother, identified as ע', said was a strong maternal intuition. In an interview on “The Morning World,” she said, “I really had intuition, like they say a mother has intuition. I felt something was wrong.” She said her concern grew after her daughter began showing troubling changes, including hitting herself and waking up screaming at night and refusing to calm down.

The mother said relatives initially blamed teething or a developmental phase, but she felt something much more serious was happening. After hearing the recordings, she said, “We heard the recordings and the gates of hell opened on me,” adding, “I could not believe that I sent my child with my own hands to hell.”

The family says the situation is now urgent because nearly two months have passed since the case was exposed and a complaint was filed, yet the caregiver has still not been questioned and is continuing to work. “She is still taking in babies at her home. There is nothing to stop her from receiving more children right now,” ע' said. The family turned to the media in hopes that public pressure will force authorities to act.