Housemaids have been known to commit all sorts of atrocities on their employers. From stealing to child molestation/abuse and the likes. Late 2014 a video went viral on the Internet about a maid beating a toddler to near death. The video was very disturbing and painful to watch and most parents showed their displeasure. Early this year a housemaid was also caught on camera breastfeeding her employer's child. These are just a few showing how dangerous it is to leave your child with a stranger. Yet parents haven't seem to learn from all these stories. You go to a random online platform, hire and bring a total stranger to your home to take care of your kids without carrying out a thorough investigation. They sell you a Cock and bull story and you just buy it and give them the job based on sympathy or face value, forgetting that we live in a wicked world. Forgetting how several people have been killed, robbed, duped, raped and abuse by people they met on social media. Yet you go through that same means to bring someone into your home to take care of your kids. I understand that parents are trying to balance their career, work and home but still they need to be weary of opening their houses to strangers. Even a dog or a hen will not let you pick it's puppy or chick without a fight.
Now, How Well Do You Know The Stranger You Are Bringing To Your Home?
Before you hire any domestic worker you need to carry out thorough investigation on them, visit any address they have submitted to you, ask questions about them when you get there and even if they submit names of references to you carry out investigations on them too. These background checks will give you facts and figures to prove genuiety and will help you understand and know who you are hiring. These process may be lengthy but it will save you the heartaches to prevent what happened to the Orekoya's family from happening again. However if you can't go through all this procedures then you can resort to corporate organisations.
We have organisations that are specialised in the sourcing of domestic workers e.g Maids, Cleaners, Gardeners, Gateman, Laundry service etc. Their jobs are to make sure their clients are hiring the right workers. They do thorough background checks for all their workers and vet every claim and information given to them by their employees. If you can't find these organisations close to you, you can visit any registered Estate management firms most of them carry out These services too.
Finally some of us put too much information about ourselves on social media. Your pictures are there, that of your spouse your children, your home address, phone numbers etc making it easy for anyone to track you. We need to be weary of thi, because you are only making yourself cheap pry for attacks. And we should always remember that the devil does not come in red cape & horns. He will come as everything you've wished for. So be careful who you let in.
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