Wednesday August 1st, 2:00 pm at 72nd St. in front of Grandaisy Bakery and again in the subway station. The caregiver was a short African-American woman of about 40 years. The girl she had with her had a physical disability, was also African-American, clothed well in a dress with roman sandals. The girl looked to be about 14-16 years. Here is what I saw: it was raining, the caregiver stood under the awning of Grandaisy while she read a book. The girls legs were shaking and she was obviously distressed but was being ignored. By the time I walked outside they were gone but I saw them again in the subway station. The girl was standing by the handicap door waiting to go in, pacing and uncomfortable, but the caregiver ignored her, leaned against the gate and continued to read. This time I went over and acted like I thought I knew the girl. I said "are you her mom?" and what I found out was the moms name is either Evan or Evalynn and they live in the Bronx. I hope you find this post!!! Thanks.
How sad.
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Thank you OP for standing up and trying to get info. on this nanny. Alot of people don't care. Hate to say this when a child is handicapped it seems like its worse
ReplyDeleteI'm confused--was this the mom or not? I couldn't figure out if the person OP talked to was Evelyn (or Evan) or if they were talking about someone else. OP, could you please clarify?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I think caring for a handicapped teenager would be very stressful and it sounds like this nanny (or mom) is getting burnt out and doesn't want to deal with the girl much anymore. That is so sad for her.
thank you Op for taking the time to write us about this - if you do learn more info, or see this happen again - update us ! good job
ReplyDeleteAre you sure that the girl was being entirely ignored? Maybe this is the way the girl calms herself and if she was not actually hurting herself or others, there shouldn't be anything to worry about?
ReplyDeleteAs a mom of a disabled child, I don't think this was a bad caregiver sighting. Sounds like she was just comforting herself or she always does that. Totally doesn't concern me at all.
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