Background checks

[Anonymous]

What agencies are you using to do background checks? Some of the nannies I've interviewed I found by posting on this site, not through an agency. Has anyone experienced a foreign nanny not willing to jump through the background check hoops? How would a background check work for folks who weren't born in the US? Wouldn't that leave some kind of gap in their background check?

I've watched too many crime shows that I have the irrational fear that they're somehow going to steal my child and sell them into human trafficking. Does anyone else have this fear? I'm a new mom, can you tell?

[Anonymous]

Don't hire a foreign or undocumented nanny. There is no way to even check if you have her real name.