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Baby H's Nanny Was Told the Camera Saved Nothing. There Was a Second.
Published 6 days, 4 hours ago
Description
Months before her due date, Dina went looking for someone who could care for a newborn and a recovering mother as one job. She found a referral on RedNote, called the number, and a woman told her she had used this nanny herself. Baby H was born five days before the period prosecutors would later put in a charging document. Her parents had told the nanny that their baby monitor was not saving recordings. There was another camera in the room.
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The family lived in Hillsborough, California, in San Mateo County, and has spoken publicly only under pseudonyms: the parents as Dina and Tim, or D and T, and their premature daughter, born September 22, 2024, as Baby H. They hired a confinement nanny on a three-month contract at $10,000 a month after a referral posted on the Chinese social platform RedNote. They fired her on October 3, 2024, after reviewing home security footage, and reported the allegations to Hillsborough police later that month. On January 8, 2025, the San Mateo Daily Journal reported that San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe had charged 56-year-old Guitian Lui with five counts of child abuse, covering conduct alleged between September 27 and October 2, 2024. Wagstaffe said Baby H received medical attention and had no physical injuries. Lui was reported to have returned to China after being fired, and an arrest warrant was expected once the charges were processed. She has not been tried or convicted, and no arrest or return to custody is established in the reporting used here. The parents allege that the woman who recommended the nanny was the nanny's own daughter; statements attributed to that daughter say her mother used her RedNote account without permission. The charges reported name one person.
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This episode follows the parents' own account as given to ABC7 and to the San Francisco Standard, the mother's more detailed public statements as reproduced in Chinese-language reporting and narrated by Rotten Mango, the San Mateo Daily Journal's report on the filing, and public statements from Hillsborough police, the San Mateo County District Attorney's office and the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.
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The children in this case are not named. They are referred to only as their parents have referred to them publicly.
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The family lived in Hillsborough, California, in San Mateo County, and has spoken publicly only under pseudonyms: the parents as Dina and Tim, or D and T, and their premature daughter, born September 22, 2024, as Baby H. They hired a confinement nanny on a three-month contract at $10,000 a month after a referral posted on the Chinese social platform RedNote. They fired her on October 3, 2024, after reviewing home security footage, and reported the allegations to Hillsborough police later that month. On January 8, 2025, the San Mateo Daily Journal reported that San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe had charged 56-year-old Guitian Lui with five counts of child abuse, covering conduct alleged between September 27 and October 2, 2024. Wagstaffe said Baby H received medical attention and had no physical injuries. Lui was reported to have returned to China after being fired, and an arrest warrant was expected once the charges were processed. She has not been tried or convicted, and no arrest or return to custody is established in the reporting used here. The parents allege that the woman who recommended the nanny was the nanny's own daughter; statements attributed to that daughter say her mother used her RedNote account without permission. The charges reported name one person.
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This episode follows the parents' own account as given to ABC7 and to the San Francisco Standard, the mother's more detailed public statements as reproduced in Chinese-language reporting and narrated by Rotten Mango, the San Mateo Daily Journal's report on the filing, and public statements from Hillsborough police, the San Mateo County District Attorney's office and the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.
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The children in this case are not named. They are referred to only as their parents have referred to them publicly.