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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A nanny who was arrested after police viewed hidden camera video recordings that appeared to show her shaking a 5-month-old baby is suing the recording system's manufacturer. Claudia Muro, 32, alleges that distorted camera footage wrongfully led to her arrest and imprisonment. She was arrested in October 2003 and spent two years awaiting trial before prosecutors dropped the case because of concerns about the tape. The footage was broadcast on television around the country. The lawsuit was filed against Boca Raton-based Tyco Fire & Security, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The lawsuit...

Suspects caught on camera By Leila Fadel Star-Telegram Staff Writer NORTHLAKE - A trio of suspected burglars turned themselves in to police Thursday after they learned they had inadvertently starred in a nanny-cam tape that was shown on television. "The homeowners accidentally left the camera on," Northlake officer Jeff Chase said. "It definitely made the investigation a lot easier." Friends told the woman, her son and a teen-age friend that a tape of the burglary of a Northlake home had been shown during TV newscasts earlier this week. Tami Denis Hoult, 38, Joseph Hoult, 18, and Marcos Juan Resio, 17,...

A 50-year-old nanny has been charged with child endangerment after she was caught on a nursery Web cam hitting and shaking the infant she was supposed to be caring for, cops said yesterday. Fook Moy of Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested after the 6-month-old's horrified mother watched Moy banging the child up and down on the floor, then placing a pillow over his head while smacking the pillow and yelling, "Stop crying! Stop crying!" cops said. The parents, who live in Roslyn Harbor, L.I., told cops they hired Moy on Jan. 2 to cover while their regular nanny went on...

<p>HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A woman has been charged with child abuse after "nanny cams (search)" showed her bashing a baby on the kitchen floor and forcefully shaking the 5-month-old girl, police said.</p> <p>One clip shows Claudia Muro (search), 29, raising the baby above her head and "slamming her on the floor three or possibly four times," according to a police report by Officer Susan J. Hayes released Friday. Muro's back is to the camera, and the lower view of the baby is blocked by the woman's body.</p>

<p>HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A woman was charged with child abuse after "nanny cams" showed her bashing a baby on the kitchen floor and forcefully shaking the 5-month-old girl, police said.</p> <p>One clip shows Claudia Muro, 29, raising the baby above her head and "slamming her on the floor three or possibly four times," according to a police report by Officer Susan J. Hayes (search) released Friday. Muro's back is to the camera, and the lower view of the baby is blocked by the woman's body.</p>