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[quote=Anonymous]I am a nanny and I do a rent exchange for a basement apartment. Originally I did a straight exchange for a basement studio but another tenant moved out a year ago and I took over her space so it's like a one bedroom apartment and I only pay for the second space and do 30 hrs of childcare for the original space. It's affordable and in a great location. We have sort of a community living thing here...they have a finished attic and rent that as well.

I really like the family. I had planned to live here long time and adopt a child. (I was unable to conceive after two years of trying.) I did a nanny share last year and the moms both had babies and were on maternity leave so the kids came here. Occasionally, I still have kids come here but not often. The women who own the house are a same sex couple and they helped organize a fundraiser for someone they know to have a sex change operation. I read on the news this morning that this person was a convicted sex offender and am deeply disturbed that this person has been to the house multiple times, including times when I had children here. (Not that they're ever out of my sight, but still, I expect the place I live to be safe.) I am completely blindsided by this and asked the women if they had known about this. They said yes and everyone makes mistakes and the person they know is sweet and loving and it's just a smear campaign started by an old girlfriend. I totally get that everyone makes mistakes, but to me there is a big difference between not paying your bills or a one time DUI vs spending time in jail for repeatedly molesting a 13 yr old girl, and then changing your name and potentially gender when you get out of jail. I feel like I should have at least been told about this so I can quietly relocate the kids when the molester is around.

I would never allow any child I adopted to be in a place (especially their HOME) where there's a known molester coming around from time to time and if I were the parents paying me to keep their child safe, I would fire me. I am so angered that they didn't disclose this to me and when I told them as someone charged with keeping children safe I find this disturbing, they said to be disturbed if I want, but that's what the media wants me to feel.

Am I overreacting here? If you were in this situation would you move ASAP as well? Or does this person really deserve a second chance? I'm all for second chances most of the time, but this is horrifying to me...not so much that molesters exist (though that's horrible) but that there was one in my home...the one place I should be able to feel safe.

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