Hatecrime: Domestic worker Mafsehediso Lisbeth Makashea in court over alleged physical abuse of Afrikaner baby Nico Linde, 7 months:
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rpWccfLe2Cc
By Sapa jan 05 2015 -- Welkom domestic worker Mafsehediso Lisbeth Makashea appeared in the local registrate's court on dec 23 and was released on R1000 bail.
She was arrested after he was caught on video beating her employers' seven-month-old baby boy. Lt-Col Thando Mbambo said the worker was ordered to appear in court again on 29 January 2015.
Annami Linde (33) a nurse, said she was worried about leaving the baby with the new carer who started working for them on 1 December 2014.
She had a previous bad experience with the previous domestic and for her own peace of mind set up a camera to see how the new domestic handled her children.
Her husband Org 37 also was concerned because their little son Nico 'struggled to go to sleep' when he was left in Makashea's care.
"He normally doesn't struggle to go to sleep'.
Annami had gone shopping on 21 December with the couple's six-year-old daughter Sarika and left the baby boy in Makashea's care.
When she returned she was terribly shocked at what the video had recorded.
Her son was on a blanket in front of the TV and Makashea, who is a live-in domestic worker, sat on the couch and ignored little Nico when he cried.
At one stage he started moaning: and she slapped him and pushed his head down on the floor.
Then she pulled him up to the couch with force, angrily grabbing his shirt to pull him up. The baby starts crying loudly.
At one stage she roughly pushes a dummy into his mouth and throws him down on the couch when he continues to cry.
She holds him against her for a few minutes but then hits him with the blanket when he moved."Those views of my child crying, I will never get out of my head, and I blame myself to a degree,' she told Beeld newspaper."My child is not a difficult child. He's an eat-and-sleep baby, easy to care for, ' said Annami.
Org said while Nico didn't seem to have sustained any physical injuries, their normally friendly baby's behaviour has changed considerably.
'Our doctor said while internal injuries cannot be excluded, Nico now is aggressive, struggles to sleep and suddenly has started reacting negatively to sudden noises such as the
vacuum cleaner. He didn't used to do that before'.
Annemi wants justice to prevail. Ever since they've seen the video things are not going well for the family."I trusted her to look after my children, my flesh and blood. One feels guilty,' she said.
And since the video was made, Makeshea is also taking it out on their little girl Sarika, 6, snarling at her and once locking her up with little Nico in the worker's bedroom while she left the house."Sarika told us that if we dared to tell (the Linde parents) she would tell them that Sarika 'was naughty and the parents would beat her'...
Makeshea also has two children of her own.
VIDEO OF THE ABUSE ON
http://m.jacarandafm.com/post/nanny-cam-exposes-baby-abuse/![]()
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