Hmm...

[Anonymous]

http://www.katu.com/news/local/izaak-gillen-infant-babysitter-homicide-oregon-city-299871951.html

Interesting...he was in the care of a "babysitter" who was also watching her own 10 month old (and possibly also 10 year old? Though perhaps she was in school at the time of injury). Regardless, to me this is just another, very very sad, case of a caregiver favoring her own child at the expense of the one she's being paid to care for. Very sad

[Anonymous]

Heart breaking but where does it say he died because she was favoring her own child?

[Anonymous]

Well, she had her own 10 month old, and a seven month old she was being paid to watch. The seven month old died, and it's being ruled a homicide. It seems probable that either she acted out of stress; being unable to handle the stresses of her own infant and another simultaneously. Perhaps she angrily injured the child on purpose out of frustration, or perhaps the poor baby was the victim of an accident which would never have happened if he'd received proper attention and care. Or, she's just a homicidal maniac, but even then it's telling that the child who paid that price was not her own.

Any way you look at it, the parents hired a caregiver with her own baby; the caregivers baby is fine, and the other baby is now dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heart breaking but where does it say he died because she was favoring her own child?

[Anonymous]

Seems op has unresolved issues of some sort.

[Anonymous]

Maybe. I just see mounting evidence against using nannies with their own kids in tow. I've seen it one too many times at the playground when a woman who is clearly watching two kids, one of which is her own, she always favors her own child in an unfair way. It irks me; parents think they're getting a great deal on a nanny but they don't realize how their child suffers as a result (perhaps not until it's too late, like in this particular case).

[Anonymous]

Well, when my child was little, I brought him to work with me. And no discount was asked for. That job in fact found me through an agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, she had her own 10 month old, and a seven month old she was being paid to watch. The seven month old died, and it's being ruled a homicide. It seems probable that either she acted out of stress; being unable to handle the stresses of her own infant and another simultaneously. Perhaps she angrily injured the child on purpose out of frustration, or perhaps the poor baby was the victim of an accident which would never have happened if he'd received proper attention and care. Or, she's just a homicidal maniac, but even then it's telling that the child who paid that price was not her own.

Any way you look at it, the parents hired a caregiver with her own baby; the caregivers baby is fine, and the other baby is now dead.

If someone is going to lose their shit and kill a child the fact that they have their own have no bearing.

I have to tell you...a child is far more.likely to be killed by their own mother or father than a babysitter.