A mum claims a nursery worker was “overly happy” when she had a miscarriage and took her child home without permission after becoming obsessed.
Chels, a mum of two, shared on TikTok her worrying experience at a childcare centre in southeast Queensland where she claimed a member of the staff tried to get close to her six-month-old daughter saying it was “almost like grooming”. She told how the worker’s behaviour was uncomfortable for her and then it gradually got increasingly disturbing.
Then Chels became pregnant with a third child and she described how the woman, who had no children, was constantly getting in touch, wanting to go for walks with her and offering to babysit. And the situation became more sinister after she suffered a miscarriage and the worker, who had told how she was “jealous”, now appeared pleased that she had lost the baby.
Finally one day Chels went to the childcare centre and found how baby was missing. “I literally turned up to the daycare and my child was not there. They had let a worker take my child home,” she recalled in a series of TikTok videos.
Chels said how five years ago she began taking her children to the nursery as it was convenient for her work. “I enrolled them in a centre just around the corner from where I was working and I was working like 40 to 45 minutes from home,” she said on TikTok. “They had a nice like indoor area, outdoor area, the staff seem fine.”
The first strange moment came when the worker called her up about membership for the gym where she worked and she thought it was strange that she had access to her number. Then she began to message her frequently. “She was probably in her late 30s. No kids – that I knew of, lived alone, maybe with her brother, and I knew she had been a nanny in London and then come back,” said Chels, and it was at this point that she made complaints to the nursery.
“Things just got out of hand because she really liked my baby, loved my baby, and didn’t like my older daughter,” Chels said. “It was really obvious and clear, and she was doing things like bathing my baby at daycare, even though I would bath her, she would like go out of her way to buy her things, almost like grooming. But it was played off in a way where it was not weird, like she was just being nice, but then totally neglected my toddler.”
And then after she became pregnant again, she became a lot more worried about the workers’ behaviour. “I had said to the people at the daycare I had fallen pregnant and she sent me a string of messages like, ‘I’m really angry, like I really want a baby, I hope something bad happens to it’,” Chels said. “She was saying all this stuff and saying she was really jealous, it was really weird.”
Then after losing the baby the Chels continued: “I was obviously devastated. She was overwhelmed, like overly happy about it. She was actually really happy.” The workers strange activity also allegedly saw her asking to go to medical consultations over the pregnancy with Chels who at this point directly said she didn’t want her to come. “She literally followed me in her car. Then I’m sitting there, she’s sitting next to me and we’re not talking,” she said.
Then the following day after that latest incident, Chels said she went to the nursery and found her child missing. ‘I was like, ‘Where the hell is my baby?’ and they’re like, ‘Oh we just let old love take her home’,”‘ Chels said. “I don’t know where she lives, I don’t know what environment she’s going to, I don’t know nothing and they were just like, ‘We thought you’d be okay with it because sometimes you’ve gone for a walk together’.
“I don’t know her and it’s important to note as well, she had said to me she had been in a low mental place to the point where work forced into doing psychology. Also, she said there was a point in London when she was nanny where she just wished the kids had been run over.”
Chels called police and it took around 30 minutes for her to get to the worker’s house and find her child who was safe and well. And she said she left the home with police talking to the woman, but now several years later she said that she suffers from anxiety over what happened.
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