a new york city jury awarded a hefty sum to a nanny who was secretly filmed by her creepy employer.
michael esposito, 35, owner of three larosa grill franchises, was accused of filming 28-year-old kelly andrade with a camera hidden in a smoke detector in the live-in nanny’s room.
esposito has been ordered to pay nearly (us)$2.8 million after andrade discovered the camera’s memory card which was full of x-rated footage of the woman.
he was arrested in 2021 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, the
new york post
reported.
but the staten island district attorney and a staten island judge set esposito free on the condition he undergo counselling while on probation for two years.
andrade sued her boss in 2021 for allegedly secretly filming “hundreds” of explicit videos.
the colombian woman said in the suit that she spent hundreds of hours training before being hired by cultural care au pair, who sent her to work in the united states.
she was placed with esposito and his wife, danielle, to look after their four children, according to the
post
.
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andrade revealed in the suit that she became suspicious after finding esposito frequently adjusting the smoke detector in her bedroom.