A 31-year-old woman is accused of punishing two boys, 4 and 9, by burning them with cigarettes, beating them and torturing them in the shower.

BROCKTON - Burned with cigarettes, beaten with a spoon, tortured with water, belittled and abused.



That’s what police said two boys, ages 4 and 9, were subject to from their babysitter over the last six months.



A Brockton woman is facing 16 child abuse charges after being accused of horrifically abusing a 4-year-old boy and his 9-year-old brother over the last six months.



Nancy Intelisano, 31, was arrested on Thursday in Brockton following an investigation by Brockton police and the Department of Children and Families.



Intelisano had been living with the two victims and their mother in Brockton.



The allegations came to light when the 4-year-old’s mother took him to the hospital last month because he had broken his arm.



Intelisano told the boy’s mother that he was jumping from couch to couch and fell when she was babysitting.



A doctor at the hospital said that his injuries were not consistent with falling from a couch, but rather from a forceful push or pull from another person.



At the hospital, doctors said he had suffered bruising on his stomach, scratches on his face, a black eye, bruising on his right arm, a chipped tooth, a left arm fracture, a burn on his upper lip and an open sore on his palm.



The Department of Children and Families was notified and interviewed the boys.



The victims described horrific abuse by Intelisano while she was babysitting them over a period of about six months. Much of the alleged abuse occurred when she was alone in the house with the two boys and her own young children. The other children witnessed much of the abuses, court records state.



The victim told police that on May 4, Intelisano grabbed him by the arm and threw him around in different directions and twisted his arm until it broke, court records state.



Two days prior, the boy told police that he made a mess in the kitchen and Intelisano took the boy and put him in the sink to clean him up. She then suddenly grabbed him by the back of the neck and threw him across the room and he hit his head, court records state.



The majority of the abuse was focused on the 4-year-old boy, court records state, and she used multiple forms of punishment for what she considered bad behavior. A police report obtained by The Enterprise refers to the 4-year-old as Victim No. 1 and the 9-year-old as Victim No. 2.



When asked about a cut on the 4-year-old’s hand, his brother told police that, “Victim No. 1 had been being bad so the suspect sat on his stomach so he couldn’t move and rubbed her lit cigarette into his cut on his palm.”



The 9-year-old told police he saw her burn the cut on his brother’s hand with a lit cigarette at least five times so it would not heal. She would also press down on his bumps and bruises when she was mad at him.



Several times she strapped the 4-year-old into a seat in the shower naked and turned on cold water and sprayed water in his face and forced his eyes open with her hands to spray his eyes, court records state.



“Victim No. 1 would lose his breath and beg her to stop it, but the suspect would tell Victim No. 1 to shut up,” court records state.



At least twice, Intelisano forced the boy to kneel on grains of rice with his bare knees, court records state.



“He explained that this is what they used to do in the Army in the old days. He said this almost made his knees bleed but they healed ‘super fast,’” the boy told investigators.



When the two boys would accidentally go to the bathroom in their pants, as punishment she would make them sit outside on the porch by themselves for long periods of time while still in their wet clothes, court records state.



“They were not allowed to come back into the house until the suspect let them. One time, they were out on the porch and Victim No. 2 had to pee. He ended up peeing his pants on the porch because he ‘really had to go.’ When the suspect let Victim No. 2 back in, she threw him across the kitchen floor and threw clothes at him to change into. The suspect said to him ‘Change now pee pee boy.’”



On another occasion, the boys were driving with Intelisano. She stopped outside a vacant house with lots of vegetation growing around it. She made the 4-year-old victim get out of the car in front of the house and began to slowly drive away as if she was going to leave him, court records state.



Another time she made him get out of the car while it was snowing outside and each time the boy tried to reach for the door handle to get back in, she would accelerate and move the car out of reach while laughing, the victim’s brother told police.



She told the boys that if they told anyone about the abuse and did not go along with her explanations for how they got injured, she would call DCF and have them taken away, court records state.



The mother of the two victims told police that Intelisano would tell her the kids suffered injuries from rough housing or falling down and that she was not aware of the abuse. Intelisano told DCF investigators similar stories about how the children got their injuries, court records state.



The 9-year-old victim told police that she only yells at her own children when they misbehave and she would never abuse him or his brother when their father was home.



Intelisano was charged and arrested on Thursday after an investigation and was arraigned on Friday. She was ordered held on $50,000 bail. Conditions of her release are that she stay away from all children, including her own, have no contact with the victims, stay away from the victims and not abuse the victims.



She is charged with two counts of reckless endangerment of a child, assault and battery on a child under 14 causing bodily injury, six counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, two counts of assault and battery, suffocation, threats to commit a crime and intimidation of a witness.