A nanny is facing child abuse charges in Argentina after she was secretly filmed hitting and stealing food from a baby.

A NANNY was secretly filmed hitting a baby boy and then eating his food.

The baby boy’s mother Cristina Ceril, 33, had secretly installed the camera after complaints from neighbours and a series of bruises on her son at the home in the riverside city of Paraná, in Argentina, gandul.info reported.

The film shows the nanny, 25-year-old Eve Mantaras, appear to hit the baby as he cowers in his high chair and then stealing his food and eating it.

“We would sometimes hear her with our son crying very early in the morning,” Ceril said.

“It now makes my blood run cold to think what she might have been doing.

“We always thought she was a bit lazy around the house but we never imagined for a second that she was violent too.

“She actually stole my son’s food and then hit him for saying he was hungry. She is sick.”

Neighbours had warned Ceril and her husband that the two-year-old and his 10-year-old sibling were often screaming and in tears on most days when they were alone with the nanny.

Police and prosecutors state that the footage will be used in criminal assault and child abuse charges against Mantaras.