The horrific CCTV footage of a maid assaulting a nine-month-old girl at a day care centre in Kharghar has proved the worst fears of worried parents right. The video has emerged as clinching evidence for nailing the maid and her employer. It shows the maid throwing the baby on the floor, tossing her around and kicking her. It was only after a major hue and cry that the police amended criminal charges filed against the owner and the help to add an attempt to murder charge. Earlier, the two were booked for voluntarily causing grievous hurt. The aggrieved parents also want the guilty to be charged under child protection law so that they do more time in prison.

It would be wrong to say that all day care centers resort to barbaric ways in dealing with the children under their care, but it is true that the parents who leave their loved ones in the care of relatively unknown people, do share a serious concern as to what treatment their children are meted out when they are away at their respective workplaces.