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[quote=Anonymous]A few things:

1) How old is the child?  If this is a one or two yo, that is more serious, but some people on DCUM will refer to their 3 1/2yo as a “toddler.”  An older 2yo or a 3yo might reasonably be left out of direct line of sight for independent play.

2) What was nanny doing during this time?  If this is her only charge, even if there are chores, etc. (barring something crazy like scrubbing the bathroom with toxis chemicals), she should have eyes and ears on the kid all day and should have noticed and investigated immediately.

3) How hard is it to get out? If the toddler plays in the same room as the exterior door and the toddler may have unlocked it himself, then it is again more excusable.  If the lock is definitely kid-proof, or the exterior door is in a different part of the house, again that means nanny was clearly inattentive for a long stretch or that she failed to secure the door.

As for whether this kind of thing “just happens with toddlers,” I have been a nanny for 10 years and I always work with at least 2 kids, usually twins.  I also take on a fair amount of other duties, particularly cooking.  The farthest a kid has gotten on my watch was opening the door. Right now I have 2yo twins and if I have to change a tampon (for example), I first make sure they are in a babyproofed, locked room.[/quote]

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