Bengaluru Capgemini crèche horror: Whistleblower held; panel says daycare centres must offer live streaming access
BENGALURU: Parents can soon remotely monitor their kids at daycare centres. The alleged abuse of toddlers at a daycare centre operating inside Capgemini’s Brookefield campus has prompted the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) to make CCTV cameras with live streaming access for parents mandatory at all daycare centres in Bengaluru.KSCPCR chief Santosh Kumar Saturday said it will soon begin mapping all daycare centres in the city and frame a standard operating procedure outlining minimum safety standards. Besides CCTV surveillance with parental access, the guidelines will also ensure centres maintain first-aid facilities and implement other child protection measures.The move follows allegations that some toddlers who cried were locked inside a bathroom at the Little Scholars daycare centre operating within the Capgemini campus.On Saturday, cops arrested a second nanny, who was also the whistleblower in the case. She has been booked for allegedly recording videos of children under suspicious circumstances, sharing them with private individuals.2nd nanny gave contradictory statements on videos: PoliceThe arrested woman, a native of Kolar who had wo rked at the centre for three years, was serving her notice period after being fired over alleged negligence.She has been booked for allegedly recording videos of children under suspicious circumstances, sharing them with private individuals and deletin g videos from her mobile phone. Her arrest comes a day after police arrested a 55-year-old nanny on charges of allegedly locking a girl toddler inside a bat hroo m at the daycare.According to Kumar, the child helpline received a complaint about the incident on the night of June 25. Following the registration of a po lice case, officials from the state commission inspected the daycare centre. A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights also visited the facility as part of the ongoing inquiry. The incident has raised serious concerns over the lack of regulations and monitoring of daycare facilities.Police said the second arrested nanny gave contradictory statements about why and when the videos were recorded, raising suspicions that some footage may have been selectively filmed or staged. She was produced before a local court, which remanded her to 14 days in judicial custody. She has since been lodged at the Central Prison in Parappana Agrahara.
