NY: Killer nanny

[seamusTX]

This is not a joke.

In New York yesterday a 50-year-old nanny fatally stabbed two children who were in her care and unsuccessfully tried to kill herself.

The mother came home to find the children dead in a bathtub.

No motive is known, and the nanny was reported as acting normally hours earlier.

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Utterly senseless. All we can do it pray for the family.

Not that it matters, but that kind of upper west side address in Manhattan indicates the family was quite well-off.

- Jim

[Seabear]

I sure hope the nanny survives, so she can answer to the charges.

I saw that this morning and it is just sickening. The story I saw said the family was close to her and even went with her to the Dominican Republic to visit her family. Unbelievable

[seamusTX]

I sure hope the nanny survives, so she can answer to the charges.

I know some people will label me as insensitive, but I don't care one way or another. If she survives, she'll either spend the rest of her life in prison, or be found not guilty by reason of insanity and spend the rest of her life in a state institution.

No explanation could possibly make sense, and nothing will alleviate the family's grief.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Friends said [the suspected killer] had had an up-and-down year, getting and losing an apartment in the Bronx and being forced to move back with her sister... They said she had changed for the worse, looking harried, gaunt and older in recent months. Some said the once-gregarious woman who greeted people warmly... now spoke little and seemed to avoid eye contact.

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This has "drug addiction" written all over it. Not that that would be an excuse.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Oh. No. Another one.

In Naperville, Illinois, this week, an in-home babysitter allegedly killed her own 7-year-old son, stabbing him 100 times. She then killed the 5-year-old girl she was babysitting. She slit both children's throats. She also killed two dogs.

When apprehended, she was covered in blood. She gave police a series of bizarre explanations, finally confessing to the crime.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012 ... urt-justin" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Naperville is an affluent suburb west of Chicago. Many Polish immigrants live in that area.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

I should add contrary to what many people think, parents are by far the worst perpetrators of murder of young children. About 4 children a day are murdered in the U.S. Twenty times more parents murder their own children than strangers murdering children.

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This is like the Beslan atrocity happening every three months - in the United States.

- Jim

[rp_photo]

Not that it matters, but that kind of upper west side address in Manhattan indicates the family was quite well-off.

- Jim

Why didn't they spend a few more dollars and hire a local?

Talk about being penny wise and pound foolish.

[seamusTX]

Like Americans never commit crimes? I just said, around 1,000 Americans kill their own kids every year.

[seamusTX]

The New York "killer nanny" pled not guilty from her hospital bed today. She is quite messsed up physically. No motive or defense was given.

She literally looks like death warmed over.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/nyreg ... urder.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim