Have you ever had a babysitter steal from you?

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Without going into too much detail it is now beyond doubt that my babysitter stole three brand new phones from our house when she was babysitting the other evening.

Two were on but in their boxes (newly bought in Black Friday deals) and the other a work phone.

All three set up with Google which shows the timeline of the phones all leaving the house at the same time.

The same time she left at. The route of travel matches where she would go next. The back foot was dead locked and the front door would have alerted her if it were a break in. Plus the phones were on view but in a location only visible inside the house.

We have had to inform the police as work need a crime number to replace the phone. They want to treat her as a suspect as opposed to a potential witness.

She came highly recommended. We checked her references. Her testimonials online are sound and not invented.

Police say babysitters pinching from families more common than you’d imagine.

Apart from the obvious upset at the fact someone we trusted to look after our kids has done this it’s made me so paranoid and upset.

Has this happened to you and how did you resolve it if at all? I want so badly to believe it wasn’t her but the signs are all there.

Just me then

So sorry this happened. Unless someone else was with her and it was that person who took your phones, then it looks like your babysitter is a tea leaf.

No, but you are doing the right thing reporting it. If she is guilty, there is no way she should be trusted alone in people’s houses or with their DC.

Not a babysitter. A cleaner though. She had a weird obsession with my husband and stole nearly all his underwear and photos of him. She went quite swiftly but not as serious as needing police involvement etc.

Bloody hell @cherrypavlova that’s insane

Yes, many years ago an acquaintance's daughter babysat for me and she stole clothes and make-up from me. She babysat about three times before I realised that things were going missing. I did ask her about it and of course she denied it. A couple of month's months later I saw her out wearing some of my clothes (a pair of boots and a top that were very distinctive).

Yeah we had a babysitter steal from us once. £10 I think it was.
Her parents told us it was our fault for leaving it where she could get it!

@Lllot5 that's insane! As if the babysitter was a toddler still in the grabbing phase

The thing that utterly baffles me is why would you trash your reputation and small business by pocketing someone else’s stuff?

She’s got real fans on FB and is actually booked up to 2020 - did she just have a moment of madness and fancy £1200 worth of phone?

Guess someone she knows is getting three brand new spec phones for Chrimbo.

Glad you reported it. How on earth does she think she can get away with this? Did she think you wouldn't noticed all three phones were missing??

Not a babysitter but an engineer from a big gas company. We stupidly used to keep a large amount of cash rolled up in a mug in a cupboard in the kitchen. We had a repair job done late afternoon in the kitchen and he said we were his last stop of the day he was off home. Around 9pm he came back, said he was on another job nearby and had left a tool in the cupboard. A cupboard that wouldn't need to be opened. He had stolen money earlier, felt bad then came to put it back on the pretence of looking for something. If he had kept it we wouldn't have noticed.

Dh caught him putting the money back and pulling the lost screwdriver from his pocket. He lost his job.

Yes but nothing expensive- hair clips, jewellery etc all on same night - I confronted she denied so didn't use her again

About 20 years ago I had a friends teen Daughter babysit. Kids were asleep in bed when we went out so she never had to actually do anything. I knew her quite well as had been friends with her mum since she was a baby.

Months later we went to watch a DVD and it wasn't in the box; didn't give it much thought until we discovered another empty box a few weeks after that. We then played 'check the DVD boxes' only to discover around 40% of the DVD's were missing. There were approximately 250 DVD's on the shelves - she must have been busy!

I did ask about it but of course she said she knew nothing about it and I let it slide because her mum and I were friends. There is no way anyone else could have taken them as no one else had been in the house. She never babysat again

Not a babysitter but a carer stole money from my grandmother who had dementia. I'm sorry this happend to you OP and I hope she gets punished

Just a thought. Did she have a visitor when you were out? Maybe invited a friend or boyfriend round that you didn’t know about? I always used to invite company when I was babysitting.

As a nurse, I did a night shift with an agency nurse. I wasn’t actually this patients named nurse so didn’t really have many interactions with the patient over the course of the night.

Come morning while I was handing over, another day member of staff were providing personal care when the patient disclosed that a nurse had removed jewellery from around her neck. The poor patient was scared to death so just led there and didn’t say a word until the agency nurse had left shift. Some shocking behaviour occurs off those who We think we can trust.

It seems from this thread that light fingered babysitters are usually friends of family and not that common. The policeman we had come to our house (might have been a slow day) said that it happens quite a lot.

Not according to this thread it seems.

My sister bad a babysitter that stole from her, clothes, bit and pieces, my sister only really noticed when money went missing. The girl was bigger then my sister so the clothing wouldn't have fitted her!

Not a babysitter but carehome staff. I was a teenager when my dad died leaving me to look after my elderly grandmother who swiftly develops Alzeihmers. I would save up all year to buy her her favourite perfume. It got stolen within a week both years. When I asked a member of staff she blamed the other residents so I said well can you go look in their drawers then? And got told a flat no. Yeah because you stole it :(

My Nan had a cleaner that stole hundreds of pounds from her. She was a family friend and was very clever at making it look like my Nan had lost the money because her memory was bad. My Nan was a lovely lady and she was devastated when she found out.
It's a horrible thing to happen, poor you!!

That's madness. How on earth did she thing she would get away with it?

As per previous post if her references are so good I'd be more inclined she's recently got a untrustworthy boyfriend and invited him in for 'company'

*inclined to think

A friend's nanny did. She was friends with my nanny, but I never liked her. I'd left some cash in our safe space (long before contactless and pp) for dh to pick up at lunch. She was round with her charges.(toddlers) and money gone.(wasn't our nanny-theres complicated reason why not) Sadly she died that weekend (car crash), but when I talked to my friend she'd had suspicions too.

When I was a babysitter, I used to sometimes steal biscuits or chocolate from the cupboards if the family had left any snacks out. But 3 phones?!!!? that's crazy - how did she think she would get away with it?