Severna Park Library in Severna Park, Maryland

Received Thursday, December 11, 2008
Physical description of caregiver: Late 50's to early 60's. A.A. female with short gray hair and bangs, wearing glasses. Was wearing a long sleeve black sweater, gray wool looking, below knee length skirt, black boots

Physical description of involved child/children: 2 Caucasian children, one boy Austin Matthew and a girl, Maddy(?).

Austin was about 3 years old, had white blond, very unbrushed hair below his ears and dark eyes. Was wearing a yellow long sleeve shirt, gray sweatpants with a white stripe and navy blue light up shoes. When he spoke to me it was in babble that I did not understand.

Maddy(?) was about 2 years old, light brown curly hair, pink fleece with print with maroon cords and black Mary Jane type shoes.

Address or venue of observed incident: Severna Park Library, Severna Park, Maryland

Date and time of incident: Wednesday December 10, 2008 between 10:15 and 11:00 am

Detailed description of what you witnessed: While your nanny was typing up what she told one of the librarians was an incident report, your children were left unattended for 45mins. When I arrived they were sitting banging on the computers rending both of them useless with errors so she finally placed them at a table. She sat with her back to them while they were suppose to entertain themselves with small pieces of scrap paper, 2 borrowed Arthur dolls and a handful of picture books. Both children were wandering around at times by themselves and your nanny never noticed. They were also climbing on stools and the shelves. Your nanny spoke to them only when she realized that they were screaming or acting up. Her tones were always mean and along the lines of "No" and "Stop doing that". Her only interaction was negative. She never read any of the books to them or walked around with them to pick out other books when they became bored. Austin saw me reading to my charge and approached me with a book, but when he spoke it was all babble and your nanny finally noticed and yelled at him to come on. I left with my charge about 10mins after she had left with them. She was still in the parking lot and while I assumed she put Austin in the car, Maddy(?) went running down the sidewalk away from the car and it was almost a full minute before your nanny realized this.

Description of vehicle, bag, stroller that may aid in identifying involved caregiver: She was driving a Hyundai Tucson Hybrid that was either a very light blue or light green.