Elena walked carefully across the shiny marble floor of the big mansion.
She carried a heavy tray filled with silver polish and clean cloths.
The sunlight poured through the tall glass windows of the giant foyer.
Everything in the house looked expensive and cold.
Elena had worked as a maid for the Sterling family for two years.
She needed the money to pay for her mother's hospital bills.
So she kept her head down and did her work quietly every single day.
Richard Sterling was a powerful billionaire who owned a huge shipping company.
He was a busy man who spent most of his time in corporate boardrooms.
His young wife Victoria liked to spend money on fancy clothes and designer bags.
Victoria was not the mother of Richard's tiny infant son, baby Leo.
Leo's real mother had passed away shortly after the little boy was born.
Richard had married Victoria six months later, hoping to give his son a mother.
But Victoria rarely held the baby or spent time in the nursery.
Elena was the one who fed little Leo and sang him to sleep.
She loved the sweet baby like he was her own child.
On this warm Tuesday morning, the big house was very quiet.
Richard was away at a meeting with his divorce lawyer and business partners.
Victoria was walking down the wide curved staircase in a bright burgundy dress.
Her red hair was pulled back into a tight and perfect bun.
She looked down at Elena with a cold and mean expression on her face.
Victoria: Make sure you polish every inch of the mahogany banister today.
Elena: Yes, Mrs. Sterling, I will do it right now.
Victoria walked past her without saying another single word.
She heading toward the grand office near the back of the ground floor.
Elena dusted the picture frames along the long hallway.
She heard the soft sound of a baby crying from the nursery room above.
It was not a normal cry for food or a clean diaper.
It sounded like a sharp cry of pure fear and pain.
Elena dropped her dusting cloth onto the polished floor.
She ran quickly toward the stairs, her heart beating fast inside her chest.
She had a very bad feeling deep in her stomach.
As she reached the top landing, she heard Victoria's harsh voice.
Victoria was speaking inside the nursery with the door cracked open slightly.
Elena paused near the dark wooden door frame to listen closely.
Victoria: Stop making that terrible noise right now you little brat.
Victoria: You are going to ruin my entire morning with your screaming.
Elena gasped quietly and pressed her face closer to the door crack.
She saw Victoria standing over the small wooden crib.
Victoria snatched the baby's blue security blanket away with great anger.
Little Leo cried louder, lifting his tiny hands into the air.
Elena felt her stomach drop as she watched the terrible scene unfold.
She pulled out her smartphone from her dark apron pocket.
Her hands trembled as she opened the video camera recorder application.
She pointed the small lens right through the narrow opening of the door.
She recorded everything that Victoria was doing to the innocent child.