A Tbilisi resident has been arrested on charges of beating children.

A Tbilisi resident who worked as a nanny for two young children has been taken into custody. She has been charged with beating her charges.

A woman who worked as a nanny in Tbilisi has been charged with violence against minors, JAMnews reported today.

According to investigators, on November 11, the woman physically assaulted a one-year-old and a six-month-old child, the report states.

The violence was recorded by CCTV cameras installed in the house. The investigation is being conducted under Part 1 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (battery), which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison, Novosti-Gruzia reports. At the prosecutor's request, the accused was remanded in custody, according to a publication on the website of the Georgian Prosecutor's Office. Caucasian Knot also reported that in April, the mother and grandmother of a seven-year-old child were detained in Samegrelo on charges of cruelty. According to investigators, the child was physically abused and suffered multiple injuries. According to Pirveli TV, the child was locked in a pigsty for several days before the beating, from which he managed to escape and seek help from his great-grandmother, who lives nearby. The child's mother, according to local residents, works as a kindergarten teacher.

A journalistic investigation raised the issue of child abuse in Georgia

In 2021, reports of abuse of children at a boarding school for orphans in Ninotsminda, run by the Georgian Orthodox Church, sparked a major public outcry. Employees of the Ombudsman's office were unable to access the boarding school for almost a year, and the Archbishop of Skhalta also refused to allow social workers in, according to the "Caucasian Knot" article "The State Shown the Door: What's Happening in Church-Related Orphans' Shelters in Georgia".

According to the Georgian Ombudsman, three criminal cases of abuse and one of rape have been opened at the boarding school since 2016. In June 2021, the court ruled that all children in the orphanage should be placed with families and family-type shelters. Following this, the Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch replaced the director of the orphanage. By December 2021, the situation regarding the rights of the children in the orphanage had significantly improved after social workers were on duty 24/7.