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Freaking out - Brittany Norwood babysat my children not 3 weeks ago
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Anonymous
| OP, I totally get why you're freaked out and why you posted. And this scenario is perfectly credible to me - we use a nanny service for our PT babysitters, and they often send recent college grads with profiles like both women who worked at Lulemon. They are girls who seem really nice and have ambitious future career plans but use the PT babysitting gigs to help pay the bills. I deliberately looked for photos of these two women, to see if I recognized them as past babysitters. |
Anonymous
Please reconsider. Lots of people can "seem really nice and have ambitious future career plans." Better to use someone you know well from your neighborhood, church, synagogue, teacher at school, etc. |
Anonymous
| PP is right...I am disgusted by these threads! |
Anonymous
PP - I can't believe people like you. Someone else chastised the OP for using a babysitter who used a babysitter (Brittany Norwood) without proper checks, etc. I use a very high-priced nanny service, which does extensive background checks, but yes sends women whom I don't know personally until they come to babysit. What precisely would you have me do? The options of family or some close neighborhood friend just don't exist for me, and my kids' elementary school teachers don't babysit? |
Anonymous
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some serious cattiness on this board. fair to say no one would walk into a nice store in a nice suburb and think a clerk, college-educated, athletic, seemingly normal, would be capable of a brutal, bloody attack on a co-worker. also fair that a referral from one's own nanny, a trusted adult, would be reference enough for many people looking for a babysitter. oh, and if someone accused of murder had babysat for my kids, yes, i would feel pretty weird about that.
you don't have to be wealthy to shop at an athletic gear store that's a cut or two more expensive than Sports Authority or other big box stores. so, because people don't earn as much money, they shouldn't be spending on hip workout clothes? pretty judgmental all around, but that's always easy when people are anonymous. rather than criticizing someone who might have legit feelings, perhaps focus on how tragic this is for the victim's family and friends, or ponder what might have led to this degree of violence. sheesh. |
Anonymous
What you've descibed is very different and sounds very appropriate. My understanding was that the OP used Brittany based only on her nanny's "knowing" Brittany from the shop. Plus, it seems that Brittany hadn't even worked there that long. |
Anonymous
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While we all would like to do complete background checks on sitters, realistically, that does not always happen and we take the recommendations of those we trust combined with gut instinct on someone when we meet them. I have paid for criminal and financial background checks on some sitters, but I have also taken the recommendation of friends at times.
This is shocking to think that one human being could brutally attack another in this manner (police said Jayna's "catastrophic injuries" "rattled" even veteran law enforcement officers). To think that the victim had her life ahead of her and it was cut short and that the attacker was so disturbed that she would give up her own freedom to kill someone is what I find so disturbing. And when it happens in a place that is your own community, it hits home even more. But for the poster who made such snide comments about another mom who is realizing that this disturbed woman was not just in her community but in her own home, and to suggest that she's making it about herself or that you see it as an opportunity to reprimand her for not performing a background check, makes me wonder about your own personality. She's just venting her fear about how close she came to someone who is so disturbed. Perhaps you are an overly critical or unhappy person that you can't just let someone express a very natural human reaction to something so horrifying. I saw no indication that because the poster related her own experience with the accused that she somehow was making this story about her rather than mourning the death of Jayna. It is very natural for people to want to know if someone so disturbed showed signs of being capable of this horrific murder. Certainly prosecutors will want to know. So a forum where people share personal experiences and voice their fears and opinions is a natural place for her to make this posting. And while it's also a natural place for you to voice yours, your own level of hostility over her own posting is a bit odd. Molly |
Anonymous
| Possible lez action? I think so...One tries to break up and the other, "ain't gonna have it". |
Anonymous
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According to channel 7, Brittany Norwood had a 'failure to appear' for a driving infraction and a lawsuit from an apartment complex for nonpayment of rent. A basic background check would have revealed these things.
And, who would leave their children with someone the nanny met a few weeks prior to the babysitting? And, at a clothing store? Give me a break! Meeting another nanny at tumbles or something kid related and then recommending her would be a much better idea. If the OP actually did something like that, then she should consider this a lesson. Don't leave your kids with people you can't verify. This is not new. |
Anonymous
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Nobody gets around my kids, unless I know them very well, and/or they know me enough to be afraid (aware of me)...and rightly so.
Rest in peace poor lady and die in jail murderer. |
Anonymous
| Is it just me, or is any one else wondering if OP still trusts and plans to continue using her own nanny? I don't have a nanny and use family or friend sitters so I can't really relate, but I think I'd have trouble leaving my kids with a person, no matter how much I liked/trusted them, after learning about this. It would make me really nervous and irrationally suspicious. |
Anonymous
PP, for the sake of the human gene pool, please seriously consider not reproducing. Thank you. |
Anonymous
Another person who gets her knowledge of law enforcement fom TV. Yeah, everything can be considered important. Was she acting abnormal? Did she say anything? DID she watch murder she wrote. All things are important, until they are not. |
Anonymous
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I believe OP. Prior to this incident Brittany seemed like any other normal young woman. I'm sure there were a few people a parent could have called for references who would have said she seemed like a perfectly normal, nice young woman.
I let my neighbor baby sit my baby 7 years ago. Seemed like a nice enough woman at the time. Older, two grown kids, employed, seemed normal, on the surface. Turns out she's a raging alcoholic, narcissist, has been fired from several jobs, had an affair with my husband and dedicated herself to destroying my family - and succeeded. But at the time she just seemed like a friendly neighbor who was willing to baby sit for me. Just saying people can seem totally normal... until you get to really, really know them. Obviously not the same as having a murderer babysit your kids.... but unless we do a complete psych eval on every sitter, how can we ever be sure? We rely on our fellow humans as just being normal... being like us. We take people at face value. Brittany did not appear on the surface to raise any alarm bells |
Anonymous
| Just stumbled across this site and can't believe how nasty some of the people are. Hope I don't know you in real life. Why so mean spirited? |