So my nanny starts Mon and the news...

[hannamaren]

There was a nanny in NYC that killed her two charges while the mother had the third child out with her.
Horrible.

[takeonyou]

OMG! How awful!!

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I saw that this morning. The nanny stabbed the children and then herself. The nanny is in critical condition at the hospital.

If it were me and I had come home to that, I probably would have finished her off before even calling the police.

Heartbreaking. I teared up looking at the pics of ths kids.

The dad was away on business and there were police waiting for him at the airport to escort him straight to the hospital.

[anna7602]

I was bawling this morning when I read the NYT article (and the mom's blog).

You can't second-guess yourself, though. There are also mothers (and fathers) who kill their own children. People who snap and shoot at children in a school, or at the post office, or anywhere you or your child or your husband could be at any given moment.
Grandparents who sexually violate their own grandchildren. All kinds of terrible things. (Seriously, my mind went crazy this morning after reading about this heinous crime.)

BUT, you can't let fears of anything like this paralyze you. You just have to be as level-headed and cautious as is reasonable. Do your background checks and trust your instincts and all that jazz.

Don't fall into the crazy camp of judgy people who posted really annoying comments on the NYT web site, such as:

"This is why mothers should not abandon their children for the pursuit of money and career."

"Ladies, you are not putting your children first if you go back to work and leave them with nannies."

And on and on and on. I would like to personally punch them for taking such a sad, terrible tragedy as the opportunity to get on a soapbox about what mothers should and shouldn't do.

[hannamaren]

People are so ridiculous. There shouldnt be anonymous comments on articles. Put a picture of yourself so we can see what a chump you are.

[xokell2]

Breaks my heart that story. My sitter starts back again this weekend for the first time in three months since My LO was born. So of course I'm reading the tribune this week and an article on SIDS told the story of three 4 month olds who died from it, all of them under the care of a sitter at the time. Not that it couldn't happen when he's with me or my husband but... Ugh