http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633918/Parents-watch-catch-nurse-beating-son.html
A mother witnessed her infant son being beaten by a nurse who was supposed to care for him.
Dyanna Ko endured every parent's worse nightmare as she checked her nanny cam using an app on her phone to see how her little boy with special needs was being looked after while she was out.
Landon's condition is a delicate one. He suffers from Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome which means he eats through a feeding tube, is non-verbal, is blind in one eye and requires 24-hour care.
Yet no sooner had Ko, from Los Angeles, opened the app, she saw the nurse whom she was paying hundreds of dollars a week, striking her son, Landon, and shaking him in his baby seat.
'I told the other moms. I said I think I see my special needs baby being abused. I think I'm going to pass out,' Ko said to CBS Los Angeles.
At one point, the nurse rolls up a magazine and uses it as a weapon to hit the child.
What made the episode even worse was that Ko was watching it happen in real time and yet there was nothing she or her husband could do to stop it.
They were powerless in their son's well-being as as they both were 20 minutes away at one of their other young son's basketball games.
Ko and her husband called 911 leading to police to race to the home.
They arrested the nurse immediately and rescued their son.
'I just feel like as his parents, we failed him, because we left someone to take care of him,' said Ko.
'Just to see him so helpless. It was heartwrenching. We had to force ourselves to watch it live,' said husband Chris.
The nurse in the video has been identified as Thelma Manalastas who was employed by Maxim Healthcare Services that provides home healthcare.
Dyanna Ko endured every parent's worse nightmare as she checked her nanny cam using an app on her phone to see how her little boy with special needs was being looked after while she was out.
Landon's condition is a delicate one. He suffers from Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome which means he eats through a feeding tube, is non-verbal, is blind in one eye and requires 24-hour care.
Yet no sooner had Ko, from Los Angeles, opened the app, she saw the nurse whom she was paying hundreds of dollars a week, striking her son, Landon, and shaking him in his baby seat.
'I told the other moms. I said I think I see my special needs baby being abused. I think I'm going to pass out,' Ko said to CBS Los Angeles.
At one point, the nurse rolls up a magazine and uses it as a weapon to hit the child.
What made the episode even worse was that Ko was watching it happen in real time and yet there was nothing she or her husband could do to stop it.
They were powerless in their son's well-being as as they both were 20 minutes away at one of their other young son's basketball games.
Ko and her husband called 911 leading to police to race to the home.
They arrested the nurse immediately and rescued their son.
'I just feel like as his parents, we failed him, because we left someone to take care of him,' said Ko.
'Just to see him so helpless. It was heartwrenching. We had to force ourselves to watch it live,' said husband Chris.
The nurse in the video has been identified as Thelma Manalastas who was employed by Maxim Healthcare Services that provides home healthcare.
