A mother in Staten Island had started to have a bad feeling about the nanny that she let into her home to take care of her children, so she decided to keep an extra eye on her and her babies by installing a camera into the carbon monoxide detector in her family’s home. What she wound up seeing is every parent’s worst nightmare–her nanny had been physically abusing her 5-month-old daughter, all because the child was refusing to eat.

According to the Gothamist, 52-year-old Uzbekistan native Mamura Nasirova was seen slapping the child in the face, HARD, multiple times before slapping her on the legs and shaking her. Last thing we can see in the video is that the nanny snatches the baby up out of her seat, taking her into another room to do God knows what. Though the infant sustained swelling and redness from her nanny’s hands, she didn’t have any broken bones. Luckily, the child’s mother had the camera set up to a live remote feed so she saw the abuse when it happened, and proceeded to race home to confront the nanny.

No word on if she whooped the living daylights out of this scumbag, but I’m sure everyone would have been understanding to such a reaction.

While this video below was taken on January 28, the nanny was JUST arrested this past Sunday according to the New York Post, and when cops tried to take her into custody to Rikers Island, she literally fought with them. Though the New York Post reports that the family confronted her and alerted police (and posted the video online), they didn’t actually contact authorities until February 1, and as I just stated, the police finally came for Nasirova on February 3–Sunday at the family’s home. Maybe the family gave her a break and she violated their trust again, causing them to finally turn her in, but either way, Nanny Dearest is in jail now, facing misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest. Nasirova, who is not a U.S. citizen, has a bail of only $1,000, and her first court appearance is scheduled for Friday.

Check out the video that the mother caught, and be warned, you WILL get angry watching it:

Source: AP Images

Throughout all the hurricane Sandy coverage that aired this past week there was one story nearly every news station was reporting on, the missing brothers who were swept away from their mother during a storm surge. Sadly, Staten Island police have confirmed that the two young boys were found dead in a Marsh yesterday.

According to AP News:

The boys, 2-year-old Brandon and 4-year-old Connor Moore, were sucked into the swirling floodwaters as their mother, Glenda Moore, tried to escape her SUV after it stalled Monday in the deluge on Staten Island, one of the areas hardest hit by the storm that has claimed 90 lives…

Police said the 39-year-old mother had driven from her flooded home toward her sister’s house in Brooklyn when the car became stuck about 6:10 p.m. Monday, forcing her to confront the rising water and the relentless cadence of pounding waves as she clung to her boys’ arms.

“As the water swelled she lost her grip of her children and they were swept away,” police said in a release…

After the boys disappeared, police said, Moore fled and in a panic climbed fences and went door-to-door looking in vain for help in a neighborhood that was presumably largely abandoned in the face of the storm.

Police said she flagged down an emergency vehicle about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and authorities began their search. Police said she told them she tried to find help and eventually gave up, spending the night trying to shield herself from the storm on the front porch of an empty home.

The search continued in the days that followed, with numerous emergency personnel joining the march through Staten Island marshland. The bodies were found about 100 feet from each other at the end of a narrow dead end street.

Television video later showed the water-logged SUV, two children’s car seats visible through a window.

Damian Moore, the boys’ father, reached on his cell phone, said he had no comment about the tragedy.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that Glenda was ”was totally, completely distraught” when she flagged police for help and called this sad end to rescuers’ three-day search for the boys, ”Terrible, absolutely terrible.”

As of now, Brandon and Connor’s discovery marks 19 storm victims who have been found dead on Staten Island. In all, nearly 40 died in all of New York City’s boroughs. We’re definitely keeping Glenda and Damian Moore and all other victim’s families in our thoughts.

If you asked most people what their favorite part of the Grammy’s was, they’d probably say the commercials, particularly the one staring 11-year-old Denise Bestman singing Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.”

The target ad debuted during the award show and featured Denise on a bus belting out the popular song—oblivious to the other riders with her headphones on—until they joined in with the background vocals. The performance was actually pretty similar to the one that landed Denise the gig in the first place. Target tracked down the Staten Island native after seeing a YouTube video of her performing the song as part of the PS 22 chorus. When producers couldn’t reach her mother, they contacted the school and got in touch with her chorus leader. Now, everybody there sees Denise as a star.

“This morning the majority of my school knew,” Denise said about her return to school Monday after the commercial aired. “I was so in shock.”

This isn’t Denise’s first big gig though. Last year, she attended the Academy Awards in LA and performed “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as part of the PS 22 Chorus. The students also got to sing with Katy Perry on Oprah during their trip. We’ll have to see what Denise has in store now that she’s a sixth grader at Edwin Markham Intermediate School 51.

Check out the ad here in case you missed it the other night. She killed it, right?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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I don’t know if Fausat Ogunbayo has read the news for the past few years but the entire United States doesn’t even have $900 trillion dollars, let alone New York City, but that didn’t stop the Staten Island mother from filing a lawsuit for that amount alleging her children were wrongfully placed in foster care and she was incorrectly labeled mentally unstable.

Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, is representing herself in the case and she says the Administration for Children’s Services’ infringed upon her civil rights and inflicted “over three years of terror, horror, grievous harm, time lost, substantial economic hardship and injuries” when it placed her children in foster care in 2008. Ogunbayo’s two sons, then 10 and 12, have been out of her custody ever since.

According to court papers, there were several incidents which led ACS to deem Ogunbayo unfit, including a time when the mother sought medical treatment because she believed her children’s skin color was becoming darker due to radiation. Another time, she allegedly told school officials the FBI was after her sons.

The city claims Ogunbayo suffered hallucinations and was an absent parent but last month, a separate legal case stated there was no substantial evidence indicating the children were ever in “imminent danger” while in their mother’s care. The Staten Island Advance even reports that both children had near-perfect school attendance and were “thriving academically.” Plus they were up to date on their medical examinations and vaccinations, and their heights and weights were appropriate for their age.

Considering the $15 trillion national debt and the fact that the largest individual settlement ever given in the city was $18,278,000 which went to James McMillan after suffering paralyzing injuries in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry dock crash that killed 11 passengers, it’s not likely that Ogunbayo will get anything near what she’s asking. But if she can prove that she’s not unstable and her children were taken for no reason, a pay day might be in her future. At the very least, her children should be returned to her.

What do you think about this case? Will Ogunbayo likely receive a settlement?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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It’s always nice to read about when trifling people get in trouble for putting their foot in their mouth–especially corrupt police officers. Check out Michael Daragjati, 32, an eight-year veteran who is now facing civil rights charges for a stop-and-frisk arrest on a 31-year-old black man in Staten Island back in April. After the man complained about the stop and asked for his badge number, the officer wasn’t feeling that and decided to arrest him for resisting arrest.

Unfortunately for Officer Daragjati, he started running his mouth very fast. After having the man sit in jail for 36 hours, filling out a random report and going to court for the arrest, Officer Daragjati called up a female friend to brag about his deeds. The convo included the following ignorant mess, according to the New York Times:

“’I sat there for a couple of hours by the time I got it all done but, fried another N-Word,’ the officer says on a transcript provided by prosecutors. ‘What?’ The woman asks. Officer Daragjati uses the same phrase and then adds, ‘no big deal.’ The woman laughs.”

This phone call set Officer Daragjati up (not literally) to get charged with a misdemeanor civil rights violation that can get him a year in prison, or even a fine of up to $100,000. It has also come to light that Officer Daragjati lured an individual he thought to have stolen one of his snowplows (from a separate business he runs) to an open parking lot in Staten Island, where a group of men jumped the guy and threatened him with a gun. Officer Daragjati was later found showing off photos of the man’s injuries. AND homeboy also got caught and charged with insurance fraud for trying to get money to damage one of his own vehicles. So on top of civil rights charges, Officer Daragjati is looking at both extortion and insurance fraud, the latter two having more consequences than the first (up to 20 years in prison). And let’s be honest, we know this crooked cop isn’t going to receive any time for the false arrest, especially since this mess happens on the regular.

Have you ever been falsely arrested or stopped because of your skin color?

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