TERRIFIED MUM
I found a stranger SPYING on my toddler and speaking to him through a baby camera in the middle of the night
A HORRIFIED mum fears that her family was spied on by a STRANGER in their own home after discovering a “creepy” man talking to their toddler on a baby cam.
Shannon Richardson, 22, and her partner Jack Gray claim their young son Freddie had been waking up every night at around 2am and refusing to go back to sleep at their home in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
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But after watching their baby cam the couple discovered that the 15-month-old was being woken up by a “deep male voice”.
They raced to his room after fearing that someone had broken into the house and was talking to their toddler.
Dad Jack ripped the “hacked” monitor out of the wall from where it had been positioned to film their youngster and threw it into a skip.
Shannon was left so scared that she insisted on staying at her mum's house even after it had been thrown away and once home had Freddie stay in bed with her.
The care assistant fears that the man could have been watching their son for weeks and even seeing the couple trying to calm him.
Shannon said: "The sickness, upset and disgust we feel is awful. How long has this creep been watching Freddie's room?
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“We get him changed after bath times and put him to bed in there.
"We don't know how long this has been going on for because, for a while, he'd been waking up at the same time in the night at around 2am and we weren't able to settle him.
"Jack was getting in the cot to try and comfort him. We'd been trying to settle him and nothing would work so we think someone was waking him up.
"But now we've removed the baby monitor, he hasn't been waking up in the night."
Images caught on the monitor show Jack comforting his son in the cot in the middle of the night in the weeks leading up to the incident in October, to no avail.
Shannon added: "It was around 2.30am and me and Jack were watching TV.
"We had the camera on and we heart rustling so we watched it for a minute thinking it was probably Freddie moving around in his cot.
"All of a sudden, we heard this really deep, male voice and it was so clear, we thought he was in the bedroom.
"He was saying 'baby' and 'baba' like he was trying to wake Freddie up. Jack ran upstairs and barged into Freddie's room.
"No one was in there but the monitor moved towards Jack's direction. The voice had come through the monitor. Jack just ripped the monitor out of the wall and picked Freddie up.
"We went into our bedroom and just sat there not knowing what to do. We were in shock. I didn't know what to believe or to think."
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Shannon says the man's voice had been so clear that they thought someone was in the house and that the incident has left her feeling scared in her own home.
Shannon said: "Jack threw the monitor in a skip. I didn't want to be in my house, I kept going to my mum's even though the monitor was gone.
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"I didn't feel comfortable and I was on edge. I was scared because we didn't know if it was a local man.
"I wasn't comfortable putting Freddie to bed on his own so he was sleeping in my bed with me but I had to eventually put him in his own bed so he didn't get too used to being with me.
"I thought the monitor was really handy because when he was in bed, it was nice to be able to see him.
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"We've been using it since he was born. Baby monitors are supposed to be a safe thing to watch your baby.
"You would never think that someone else would be watching them through it."
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