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Complaint Against Catharina, South African Nanny

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Complaint   >> Posted: Jun 07 '07 by Cathleen in Ontario, Canada
continued on from previous complaint after speaking to the children. Just found out from my oldest daughters that once while they were argueing at the bustop, Cat got mad at them and came over and agressively pushed them apart. Both girls fell back. Cat had been specifically told that there was no physical touching. Ash and Jenn were home sick the day she flew out of the house and I asked them what they had for lunch. They both said they had cold chicken, I asked what to you mean, we had frozen chicken strips, there was no ice on them but they were cold Mom. Jessica came home after school and asked Cat if she could get her a snack, Cat said "Get it yourself." My husband and I got to talking and we noticed she really didn't mingle with the children, she did homework with Jen but never really talked with my other two children 9 and 10 and we can only remember her playing with the kids a couple of times, once playing on the trampoline and the volleyball net and the second time on the trampoline. She never hugged them or snuggled with them that we can remember, only the night they found out she didn't want to stay she lay with Jessica because I asked her to answer Jess's questions. My 10 year old is 10 going on 15 and I told that to Cat, she said no problem, she always spoke nasty to her. She told me, Mom she really sucked up to you and Daddy when you were home but when you were gone all she did was yell. I suggest a Nanny camera in your house if you hire her. Your children are worth it.

I asked the children if they missed her and they said no, they were glad that she was gone, they were upset that she didn't say goodbye to them. The day she left, she packed her bags, called a cab and brought her bags out through the garage so the kids wouldnt see and call us at work. She yelled at the kids to close the blinds and stay in the house, of course my kids looked outside and saw the cab driver who is a friend of my husbands and my daughter goes to school with his nephew. Clarence Creek is a small world, I do n't think she thought of that. Hiding the cab down the street and deleting all the calls from the phone show the paranoid person she is and the mental instability she has, not talking to us or the children show the coward and unprofessional person she is. When she left for America the first time, she said she was not on good terms with her mother and never said goodbe (later made up), this time because her father is a drunk, she never said goodbye to him, she left another family the same day she came and I am investigating the other family to see what happened with the father and how much notice she gave them. I see a pattern.

She asked me a funny question one day, she asked if you could spank children in Canada or could you get in trouble, I explained the law to her. Why would someone who has such a passion with children and call it her calling ask such a question? She was spanked (according to her) as a child so hard on the bottom she couldn't sit down she down our kids. We really do n't know what to believe from her anymore. I think she can get violent with the children if she is in a stressful or bad mood as Jess showed me how she pushed her and Ash apart and it was not a pretty picture. She knew my husband was very sick with high blood pressure and has ended up at the doctors again because he had more episodes of fainting the day after she left. She is only concerned with herself. I have all emails I sent and responses she sent me to collaborate my complaint if anyone would like to review them, how she knew she was coming to a rural home, we live on 23 acres. She looked at our place on satellite before she came. She told me what she would do with the kids, like play barbies, etc. Do phonics with Jennifer, help her reading. She was more interested in the computer and the phone and both she took advantage of. The last week it was like a child, I had to remind her to pick up the bag of potatoe chips off the floor so the 10 week old puppy wouldnt get into them, to close the front door when she came in so the house wouldn't fill up with mosquitoes. to get off the phone so others could use it. I have notified Immigration about her and the scam she pulled, she has not provided me with her SIN number which she knew I needed and I am looking into if I can get her deported back to her country with what she has put my children through and the scam she has pulled on us. Imagine all of this in 2 weeks, the great part is I have all the emails she sent to back up what she says are her reasons for leaving. She will probably come back with other reasons now as she knows we are on to her but once a bullshitter, always a bullshitter. I am trying to contact the other people she worked for and had a bad experience with her to back me up. If you hire her do your children a favor and put in a nanny camera but don't let her know you have it .

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