Murrells Inlet Nanny Accused of Child Abuse-Jurors Selected

12 Horry County South Carolina residents were seated as jurors today and will decide the case of a Murrells Inlet nanny charged with abusing a baby in her care.

Cheryl White, 61 was charged in March 2008 with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and unlawful child neglect after the parents of the child showed a videotape from a home surveillance nanny cam to authorities.

The father of the then 5 month old baby girl, Wesley Locklair, set up the hidden camera after watching a Nancy Grace TV show about nanny abuse

Locklear and his wife, Leslie, hired the Murrells Inlet nanny about 10 weeks before the incident after interviewing several other nannies and running a background check on White.  The background check came back clean.

The Locklears, like so many other parents, thought having a home nanny would be much more beneficial to their baby than a day care facility. They said they suspected something was wrong when they came home early a few times and the baby was lying on the floor in front of the TV.

Here is the video below of Nancy Grace interviewing the father on CNN.