I had a nightmare situation with a nanny about 3 weeks ago today. I am actually having to go to therapy for the first time in my life because of it! It brings me back to tears every time I think that I managed to put my baby girl in such a horrible situation. Let me tell you the short version of the story, then I can ask for advise...

We recently employed a live-in nanny for only one week, named Alisa Golden. She seems to now be going by the name Alisa James. We are in the process of filing grand larceny charges on her for stealing our stuff while she was employed with us (they will not show on her record yet as the court dates continue to be pushed back because my husband is going on deployment). She lies, cannot communicate to save her life, leaves any new job she gets within a week after starting (leaving you stranded), graduated with a special education diploma, has no transportation, and has NO childcare experience. She even openly admitted to me that she used us just to be able to say that she has been a nanny. I see that she is currently using her current family she is also living with, for the same thing (she is living with them now in Suffolk). Apparently when Alisa decided she no longer wanted to work here but refused to communicate this to us, she brought in another family who was trying to bribe her away, on to our property and in to our home with out permission. Since Alisa is so "slow" and this family refused to let her speak to us, we clearly thought she was being abducted, so my husband called the police to come out and investigate the situation. The new "mother" got angry that we had shut our property gates (we live on 7 acres) that she willfully entered in to, got out of her car and physically assaulted me and my 16 month old daughter. This is unacceptable! We have also pressed assault/battery charges on this family (both husband and wife are enlisted military). After she left our employment, she also openly told us that she found out she was pregnant and just needed a place to stay.

I copy/pasted this from an ad that I had written up a week ago and posted on our local Craigslist (Hampton Roads, VA) as a warning in the childcare section as she is again seeking more childcare jobs. I have had a very hard time dealing with her want/need to seek employment still in the childcare occupation. I flag every posting of her's that I come across under the childcare heading. Craigslist does not really allow you to post "warnings" about people on their site, including their forums. I am not an avid "Craigslister" but I am in the farm and garden section a lot, this is when I stumbled across her ads one afternoon. I actually think it is a bad idea to look for childcare on Craigslist as the site can be pretty scary and full of not very good people.

My question is this, I want to continue to try and warn the community of this very dangerous and mentally ill individual (who is also claiming to be military, she has an enlisted step dad). I actually found her on this website but they deleted her account and banned her and the other family from ever getting on her again. It's a good start but I would not be able to live with myself if the same thing that happened to me or worse happened to another unsuspecting family! Are there any other places I can post my warnings, especially since she is no longer allowed on this site? Any advise would be helpful at this point! Oh, I also have retained some pretty good lawyer's who are also going to go after her and the family in a civil suit for breech of contract. I also have major amounts of evidence to prove that this girl is VERY mentally ill. She continued to write me threatening emails with out me ever contacting her. They are very incriminating to say the least. We are a Naval officer family just looking to help out the local community. This has nothing to do with being "catty" or even upset that she left us (we were going to let her go anyways).

I want to say i am sorry that you and your family have to go through this. I hope that you can get the word out enough for another family not to get hurt by her. Thank you for letting us know about her. I wish you the best of luck with recovering from this situation and hope that you daughter is ok as well.