click for more info "A hidden camera in a New Jersey home led to the arrest of a burglar on Friday who brutally beat the home owner in front of her 3-year-old child. The so-called nanny cams are gaining popularity, raising the question of how taped evidence will hold up against privacy laws in court. Nanny cams wear various disguises—a clock radio, the eyes of a teddy bear, a smoke detector, an electrical outlet, and other common appliances." You can read the whole story HERE. If you have any reason...

This is a story about how the Ohio State attorney general is looking into eldercare abuse in nursing homes. You can read the whole story HERE. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has recently seen a spike in complaints regarding alleged abuse and neglect at Ohio nursing homes. So far this year, the Attorney General’s Office has opened 131 abuse and neglect cases, as compared to 74 cases in the same time period last year. Sixty-three of those cases were opened following Attorney...

This is a video that was placed on YouTube by a Wall Street Journal reporter. The story is about how effective hidden cameras are a catching a cheating spouses. You can see and hear the whole video HERE. The story does not make mention of the fact that there are plenty of other uses for hidden cameras besides catching cheating spouses. Some examples are, of course, as a nanny camera to catch babysitters abusing their privileges or employees stealing from their places of employment. Hidden cameras are placed inside objects that...

click image for more details This is a story about how nanny cameras can be useful in protecting you and your children. You can read the whole story HERE. “It can be a very stressful situation for parents to leave a child with someone they barely know other than some references and interviews,” says Michael Giordano, owner of Know Your Nanny. “With this guide, we arm parents with the necessary steps on how they can securely view what’s going on in the house without anyone ever knowing.” Security cameras and...

click for more info In response to the growing use of hidden cameras to catch employees who commit nursing home abuse or neglect, some states have enacted or have introduced laws specifically addressing video monitoring of nursing homes. These laws explicitly allow residents or their family members to install recording devices. Any video acquired from these devices may be used in a criminal prosecution or in a lawsuit for nursing home neglect or nursing home abuse. You can read the whole story HERE. Hidden cameras are an effective tool in...

click image for more detail Here are two stories about elder abuse in nursing homes and hospitals. The first one is from Canada and points out that elder abuse in nursing homes is not an isolated incident. You can read the whole story HERE. The second story is about a hidden camera that caught hospital employees abusing one of their patients. You can read that whole story HERE. Elder abuse is unfortunately quite common in the United States. Two years ago it was estimated that as many as 60% of...

click image for more details Here is a story about a nanny who pled guilty to child abuse after a hidden camera caught her abusing a child. You can read the whole story HERE. Parents around Staten Island were shocked several months ago when a YouTube video emerged, showing a 52-year-old nanny slapping and shaking a 5-month-old girl inside a Grasmere home. But further investigation revealed the disturbing Jan. 28 incident was just the tip of the iceberg. Other hidden cameras inside the home captured Mamura Nasirova shaking the helpless...

more info here Here is a story about a nanny that pled guilty to child abuse after she was caught on hidden camera abusing a child. You can read the whole story HERE. Child abuse is not as common as it used to be. Part of the reason for that is because of the proliferation of hidden cameras. They can be anywhere. And nannies may not be the sharpest knives in a drawer but they don't want to get caught. That is the whole idea behind any hidden camera-to catch...