A mother is regretting hiring a 38-year old nanny to take care of her two children after she discovered that the domestic worker had been breastfeeding and torturing her toddler.
Narrating her story to Lynn Ngugi on YouTube, Agnes Gachambi recounted how a house help she got through her Mama Mboga turned into a monster to her one-year old daughter hardly a week since she hired her.
Gachambi told Lynn that the house help did not just torture the young girl but also forcefully breastfed her, left her to cry all day and even tried to choke her with food.
"All was well that Tuesday, Wednesday but on Thursday evening when I arrived home, I realized the baby had some mark on her head," Gachambi revealed on the Lynn Ngugi Show indicating that when she asked the nanny about the scar, she was told that the baby might have fallen while playing with her older brother.
When she could not hold her suspicion any further, Gachambi and her husband installed CCTV cameras around the house when the nanny was off.
After watching the camera recordings for the day, Gachambi could not hold it and decided to quit her job because she could not believe what her children were going through.
"I choose my kids first," Gachambi texted her boss the night she discovered the ordeal her toddler had gone through that day at the hands of the nanny.
However, Gachambi decided to let go of the nanny and forgive her because of the house help's children, which she says she did not want to suffer.
"I just told her to pack and go before my husband could do anything to her because he had promised to protect his children," recounted a teary Gachambi.
While speaking on the same show, Kate Kioko, a counseling psychologist, stated that the experience Gachambi and her daughter had with the house help had left them traumatized.
"For the mother to have come to a point to accept that she can go back to work, is a progress," the psychologist noted.
Cases of children suffering at the hands of their nannies are common, with parents being advised to be cautious when hiring a domestic worker to take care of children.
"It is painful, hurting and deep to see what your child is going through," Kioko indicated adding that parents who go through such experiences need to be helped to recover.
