Nanny awarded £2,000,000 after boss filmed her with camera hidden in smoke alarm --[Reported by Umva mag]

Kelly Andrade took a closer look at the alarm after seeing her boss 'constantly' repositioning it.

Sep 23, 2024 - 14:50

Nanny awarded £2,000,000 after boss filmed her with camera hidden in smoke alarm --[Reported by Umva mag]

Live-in nanny awarded ?2m after millionaire boss recorded ?hundreds? of nude vids on camera hidden in smoke detector Derek Smith Law Group — Kelly Andrade was disgusted to find she was secretly being filmed (Pictures: Derek Smith Law Group)

A live-in nanny has been awarded £2million after her fast food mogul boss secretly recorded nude videos of her by hiding a camera inside a smoke detector.

Kelly Andrade, 25, sued 35-year-old Michael Esposito for allegedly filming her while she lived with him and his family in New York’s Staten Island.

The dad-of-four was arrested after she claimed he tried to break her door down when he realised she had discovered the device and the memory card inside crammed with ‘hundreds’ of clips.

A Manhattan jury has now awarded the au pair $780,000 (£588,000) in emotional distress damages against Esposito and his wife Danielle, plus $2,000,000 (£1,507,000) in punitive damages against him.

Esposito, who owns three LaRosa Grill franchises, was taken into custody on suspicion of illegal surveillance, which carries a maximum sentence of four years.

But he was allowed to walk free on the condition he completes two years of probation and counselling.

Ms Andrade’s attorney previously described the punishment as a ‘slap on the wrist’.

A Staten Island dad secretly recorded ?hundreds? of nude videos of his live-in nanny ? then tried to break down her door as she cowered in fear after finding the hidden camera in her bedroom, she claims in a lawsuit. The nanny was so terrified her employer might be armed with a gun that she jumped out a window to escape, according to court papers. Kelly Andrade, 25, ?immediately? reported father of four Michael Esposito to cops, who arrested him March 24 on a felony charge of unlawful surveillance. The Colombian native said she underwent hundreds of hours of training before being hired by Cultural Care Au Pair and coming to America, where the company placed her in the $800,000 waterfront Tottenville home of Esposito, the owner of three LaRosa Grill franchises, and his wife, Danielle. — Kelly Andrade, 25, sued 35-year-old Michael Esposito for allegedly filming her while she lived with him and his family (Picture: Derek Smith Law Group)

A Manhattan jury has awarded $2.78 million to a ?petrified? au pair who was secretly videotaped by a creepy Staten Island dad and fast-food chicken mogul ? but the victim is outraged he got only a ?slap on the wrist? from prosecutors. Michael Esposito, 35, recorded ?hundreds? of nude videos of Colombia native Kelly Andrade, 25, then tried to break down her door as she cowered in fear after finding a hidden camera in her bedroom, according to a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit. He was arrested in 2021 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. But the Staten Island District Attorney and a Staten Island judge instead allowed Esposito to walk, provided he undergo counseling and satisfy two years probation. — The au pair was awarded $780,000 (£588,000) in emotional distress damages against Esposito and his wife Danielle, plus $2,000,000 (£1,507,000) in punitive damages (Picture: Facebook)

Speaking to the New York Post, the nanny said: ‘It’s not enough for the whole situation I’ve been through these three years. It’s not enough.

‘I was angry because the damage that he caused me is irreversible.’

In her lawsuit, the Colombian national described spending hundreds of hours training after being hired by Cultural Care Au Pair and sent to work in the US.

She told the Post she was thrilled at the opportunity to learn English while working in America.

But she became suspicious after frequently seeing Esposito tinkering with the smoke detector in the bedroom they had given her, saying it ‘was constantly being repositioned’.

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After several weeks in the job she took a closer look at the device and spotted the camera hidden inside.

She described having to escape through a window when Esposito arrived home and started banging on her door.

According to the lawsuit, police later found ‘hundreds of recordings’ of her ‘nude and/or dressing/undressing’ on it.

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