{"id":64,"date":"2004-12-17T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/westchester_worst_nightmare.html"},"modified":"2004-12-17T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T19:12:53","slug":"westchester_wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/westchester_wor.html","title":{"rendered":"Westchester Worst Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another glimpse into the psyche of the metropolitan-area upper-middle class — the nanny leaves behind the baby to go shopping with your Mercedes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Westchester nanny made two big mistakes when she decided to do a little Christmas shopping on her bosses’ time.<\/p>\n

Victoria Braithwaite took the Scarsdale couple’s Mercedes-Benz for the ride – and left their 16-month-old daughter home alone for more than an hour, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n

By the time Braithwaite, 27, rolled back into the driveway, the baby’s mom, who unexpectedly stopped by the house, was waiting for her – along with the cops.<\/p>\n

“It’s more than a little disappointing,” Cordes George, 43, father of little Ashley, said yesterday. “We’re pretty upset.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“I know it was totally wrong,” the distraught nanny told the Daily News last night. “I can’t explain why I did this. It’s like a nightmare ever since. I’m a good person. I’ve never even been to a police station before.”<\/p>\n

Braithwaite, a Hungarian immigrant who had worked for the family for three months, said she put Ashley down for a nap before driving off.<\/p>\n

“I was 100% sure she was sleeping, and she usually sleeps for an hour. I thought I would go 10 minutes away to the Cross-County Mall,” Braithwaite said. “It was an error in judgment. I wasn’t thinking clearly.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And to make matters worse, the nanny then must endure the wrath of Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro:<\/p>\n

“You’d have to be a halfwit to think that leaving a 16-month-old baby alone is okay,” Pirro said. “I’m sure an angel was protecting this baby.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another glimpse into the psyche of the metropolitan-area upper-middle class — the nanny leaves behind the baby to go shopping with your Mercedes: A Westchester nanny made two big mistakes when she decided to do a little Christmas shopping on her bosses’ time. Victoria Braithwaite took the Scarsdale couple’s Mercedes-Benz for the ride – and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}