This news leaves me utterly speechless....
I am a conscientious libertarian/conservative who believes a respectful fear of God, resulting in self-control and moral living pre-empt the need for myriad laws. Simple laws-- promptly and consistently enforced--preclude the need for infinitely 'nuanced' laws that STILL don't have Bill Clinton in jail and John Kerry-Fonda executed for treason. This government is wholly inadequate for the governing of an immoral people, said one founding father....
That said, sometimes...like this one...
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
is a good thing.
Did the baby stop crying?
This is what happens when one foregoes one's own responsibilities and pawns them off on others - even for hire - in the name of one's own interests. Don't want people abusing your kids, stay home and take care of them yourself.
Common sense; but, apparently something lacking in America since the 60s
I really wonder about this family's priorities. Why can't they scale down their lifestyle so one of them can take care of the baby? Then again, this is Long Island. I have friends who bought a 1,300 square foot house in Port Washington, and their annual property taxes are over $20,000. So they aren't living in luxury, but the LI property tax rates sort of ensure that their expenses will be high. They don't have kids yet, but after they do, I wonder how they'll be able to have one person stay home and still pay these insane property taxes.
mom, stay home and raise your child
Moy claimed the pillow-hitting was a method used to discipline babies in China, a police source said.
/JMHO
No amount of money parents spend on "things" for their children; the best nannys, toys, pre-schools, etc. will ever give the children what is most important to their physical and emotional health and growth - a full time parent on hand to love, nurture and encourage them.
I would imagine MAD TV might do a take-off satire of this incident, using Bobby Lee of course (w/ a pillow, explaining Chinese cultural intracacies).
She'd never make it to the cops being able to cuffs on her if that was my child.... she'd just disappear.
Such a system would need to be able to: (1) Have multiple cameras, (2) Be wireless, (3) Be able to record a full day as a discrete RealMedia (or mpeg) file on a PC, (4) support sound, [(5) Optional: Remote web monitoring]
Please suggest systems which would achieve this goal. All price ranges ok. Many parents here would appreciate this info. to protect their children. Thanks.
They let the tape run 45 MINUTES and did nothing to intervene???? Is there something wrong with this picture?
I'm afraid this nanny wouldn't have lived long enough to have been arrested.
As for Webcam, I just got one because of my new baby (12/17/04). We use it when we talk to my parents, who live a few hundred miles away, so they can see pictures of the baby...
I wonder if she has a sister named Fook Yu.