According to a report by Metro UK, a family have caught on camera the moment that their nanny held their baby’s nose to stop him breathing and repeatedly hit him.
Anastasia Zhelyabova, 31, is facing prosecution after the parents of the eight-month-old boy handed over the recording to police.
The footage shows Zhelyabova smacking him on the face and bottom.
His mother, Elena Levendeeva, 26, became concerned when he started to cry every day when she went to look after him after just two weeks in the job.
She installed cameras around the house and on the first day of taking footage she caught the nanny being abusive towards the defenceless boy.
The nanny apparently became angry when the baby refused to take his bottle.
Elena from Nefteyugank in Russia wrote on social media: ‘Due to frequent and continuous hysterical cries from our child we installed video cameras that recorded the beating and torturing.’
A police spokesman said: ‘The investigation of the criminal case when the woman beat a small child is now over.’
The nanny ‘beat the baby several times on his bottom and on the face, and she lifted the child and threw him on the floor.’
The nanny faces up to ten years in jail for child cruelty if convicted by a court.