Swathes of angry parents slammed a 20-year-old babysitter and urged the mum to sack her immediately after discovering her inappropriate behaviour on a Ring doorbell
A parent was left fuming after checking a notification on her Ring doorbell. The mum of two four-year-old twins claims she hired an au pair around six months ago to come and live with the family, paying her to babysit the kids overnight around once a week. She says the nanny is good with the twins but has been ‘distracted’ ever since getting into a relationship. As a result, he’s not allowed to go inside the house between midnight and 7am. However, the last time the mum headed out for an evening – she soon was ‘pinged’ by her phone to alert her that somebody was at the front door.
When she checked the footage from her electric doorbell and CCTV, she realised the nanny had left the kids unattended and walked out of the house. “I panned the security cameras around the front of the house to see if I could see her and could not,” she wrote on Mumsnet. “They cover the whole of the driveway so probably about 5 metres from the house plus neighbour on one side’s driveway.
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“At this point I panicked that she had forgotten she was babysitting and called her. She said she had gone out to talk to someone and was right outside the house – demonstrably not true as cameras couldn’t see her.” The anonymous mum states she then asked the nanny to go back into the house and check on the kids, but it took her ‘three or four minutes’ until she returned inside. When the mum and her partner came back at 10.30pm, the au pair left with her partner and allegedly didn’t come back until 4am.
She added that one of her children woke up and started crying around half an hour after the nanny came back inside. “She needed to settle her which she did successfully – they are very comfortable with her, she does the school run and after school care three days a week,” the post reads. “I have asked to speak to her straight after kids bedtime today as want to understand what was going on in her head to make her leave two four-year-olds alone out of earshot with no way of her knowing if one of them was crying/looking for an adult in the house.”
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Swathes of parents rushed to the comments section to express their thoughts, with a clear majority slamming the nanny and arguing she should be fired immediately. “Zero excuse to leave the four year olds at home alone,” one person fumed. Another agreed, scathing: “Not acceptable at all. Especially not closing the front door. She wouldn’t have heard the children if they’d woken up.” A third added: “I’d be looking for someone else,” while a fourth penned: “Just sack her. The trust is gone.”
However, there were several users who defended the nanny and actually slammed the mum for ‘spying’ on her. “I find it a bit creepy that you’re watching her to such an extent,” one person wrote. Another suggested she could have just wanted a private conversation that wouldn’t be picked up by cameras, adding: “I would absolutely hate being filmed to this degree.”
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