Compensationof $2.78 million has been awarded by a court to a 28-year-old nanny who worked as an intern for a 35-year-old businessman at US the employer recorded his employee in private moments using a hidden camera that he had installed in a smoke detector.

A Manhattan court has ruled that Michael Esposito and his wife Danielle will have to pay $780,000 for emotional abuse to Kelly Andrade of Colombia while another $2 million will have to be paid by Esposito alone.

The ruling came after the 28-year-old nanny filed a lawsuit in 2021 when she discovered the hidden camera in her room at the home they were staying in on Staten Island.

At the time, the Colombian nanny had reported to police that Esposito had tried to break into her room when she realized he had been exposed.

The 28-year-old explained in a statement that the Esposito family had given her a room to stay in while she helped raise their children.

But when she saw the 38-year-old adjusting the smoke detector more often than expected, she suspected something was wrong. So three weeks after she was hired she discovered the hidden camera.

According to the 28-year-old’s lawsuit, the hidden camera recorded hundreds of frames of her being either half-naked or completely naked.

Esposito and his wife