Babysitter in trouble toddler is injured

AUSTIN, TX — Round Rock babysitter Manjula Bandarupalli has been accused of shaking a 1-year-old boy so hard that he had to have part of his skull removed to relieve brain pressure.

The 45-year-old Indian American babysitter has been charged with serious bodily injury to a child, according to an arrest affidavit. Bandarupalli initially told a sheriff’s detective that the boy was playing in the living room by the stairs with other children when he fell down some stairs at her house.
It said she didn’t see the toddler fall, but she heard a noise around 11:30 am when she left the stairs to get lunch for the children in the kitchen. Bandarupalli said she looked around and saw the boy lying on his back, but that he was not crying, the affidavit said.
The report said she picked up the boy and called his parents to pick him up. Bandarupalli said she usually didn’t let children play on the stairs but had not used a gate to close off the stairs that day.
Bandarupalli was released from the Williamson County Jail on February 11 after posting bail set at $75,000.