Con-Artist Nanny

Disturbing Child Dumping Scheme
Posted on: THE BEST NANNY NEWSLETTER (1/10/09)

According to the news report linked to this blog post, when hired to care for a family’s twins a nanny, Roxanna Patricia Villamarin, said she was taking the children to the library but was really dropping them off at a rundown apartment.The article reads, "According to officials, Villamarin had been leaving at least five clients' children at this apartment over a period of five years. ""'She would pick up the children; she would drop them off at an unlicensed daycare center. And she would pursue other goals,' City Attorney Will Rivera says.""These other goals, he says, included working at a farmer's market and at her family's restaurant. At the end of the day, Villamarin allegedly would return to the apartment, pay a woman there $10 a day — about $110 less than she was making — and bring the children home."What’s worse is at the end of the news article the reporter spoke with the nanny, and she does not regret her bad choices. She was quoted as saying, “They treat me bad, I treat them bad. ” She claimed that she left the children because she needed a break.

See news article here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99120521&ft=1&f=1006

What do you think? Are the parents right to be angry with the nanny they hired?