1. Camera captures nanny burning toddler with curling iron.
A woman has been charged with assault and endangering a child after a nanny cam captured her burning a toddler with a curling iron.
Nosipho Nxumalo, from Harlem, New York, was arrested after the boy’s mother noticed the toddler had burns on his left hand and watched home security footage showing the alleged abuse.
Footage shows the nanny checking the styling tool is hot as the boy cowers beneath her before she touches it to his hands and feet.
“After she burns him several times, you see her – you could tell she was telling him, ‘See that’s what happens when you don’t listen,’ and then she hugs him,” the boy’s mother, Angela Persaud, told NBC4 New York.
“She’s playing these warped mind games with my child, and it’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.”
Nosipho Nxumalo has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
2. Man kills mother with rolling pin and knife, court hears.
A man beat his 75-year-old mother with a rolling pin and stabbed her to death after a dispute over her will, a Melbourne court has heard.
Socrates Tamvakis, 45, appeared in court on Tuesday charged with the murder of his mother, Violet Tamvakis.
Mr Tamvakis, who has a mental illness, allegedly killed his mother after in the early hours of April 26 last year after finding out she was changing her will to ensure he could not sell the family home in Bentleigh, the Herald Sun reports.
The man’s two sisters spoke at the committal hearing, telling the court that Mr Tamvakis has had bipolar for about 25 years and had often been verbally abusive towards their mother, who was not trying to kick her son out of the family home, but just ensure he couldn’t sell it after her death.