Mother's help/Nanny looking (Philadelphia, Allentown: 2009, crimes, house)

[earth-32]

We are an Italian family looking for a nanny/mother's helper on a full-time basis (5 days a week and 9-10 hours a day) at our home (Bethlehem) for 2 children (24 and 5 months) for help for bath, children care, cleaning of the house and ironing. My wife will be present too therefore the work will be most of the time shared.
In case of need we could provide accomodation too.
The planned date is: end of September 2009.
Please provide a general figure of the weekly cost too.

Thank you.

[PA.Dutchman]

Be very very careful who you hire and interview.

There have been three senior ladies robbed by Individuals who passed themselves off as Security Fence Installers in the last week.

On Fox News today they carried a report of how many people have been robbed or assaulted through inquiries on Craig's List on the Internet.

I don't have an answer for you, but posting on here could open you up for such a person to deceive you.

Allentown's paper this week carried a story of a trusted baseball coach who was molesting one of his own 14 years old players and another story of a former Pastor from Allentown. The Pastor was attempting to have sexual contacts with a 15 year old.

Go to the State of PA Megan's Site to look up Pedophiles sometime in this area by zip code. We have a good size population of them living in and around Allentown. I will get the link and post it here.

Here is the link, anyone and everyone needs to check your own areas zip code. Pedophiles live in every community of Pennsylvania. A good number live in this area because the State Of Pennsylvania has a State Probation Office on Hamilton Street near 5 th.

http://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/

If you know and trust someone ask them, but don't ask on here. That is like hanging a sign out for someone to take advantage of your family.

Allentown has even had a few teachers charged and arrested over years for this kind of thing.

The Allentown School District is now in Federal Court because of four little boys in an Elementary school who were raped. It happened in Central Elementary School by another student. The School District never reported any of the rapes, the fourth victim's father called police. That is when it finally stopped and Channel 10 News in Philadelphia was the first to report the story.

The four rapes were never reported by the Superintendent of Allentown School District.

Just this week the United States Justice Department asked the victim's parents if they could join them in the case to go after the School District of Allentown and those who hid these crimes.

Please you really need to ask someone you trust and know to find such a person. Don't ask on a public bulletin board site like this.

[PA.Dutchman]

Earth 32, your posting brought back some wonderful memories. I have lived in Allentown my entire life, 61 plus years.

I grew up in a wonderful neighborhood with a number of immigrants from the Old Country.

Our next door neighborhoods came from Italy. Mrs. Mazaoto was like a Grandmother to my sisters and I. Our mother had to have an operation that prevented her from walking for sometime. Mrs. Mazaoto looked after us like we were her own.

She taught my mother, who was young and a newly wed war bride, how to make many wonderful Italian foods. The whole family was an extension of our own.

Whenever I think of Mrs. Mazaoto I have the best of memories.

Sadly Allentown was another place then. Lots of good families, many different Ethnic groups, and all the children were buddies and good friends. Our parents would sit on their porches every night going over the worlds' events. It was a chance for them to polish up their English Language skills.

It was a wonderful time and a wonderful place, sadly, very sadly, that Allentown is no more.

Move to the suburbs and stay out of Allentown.

You sound like Mrs. Mazaoto, she dearly loved her daughters and treasured them. I know you do your family too. Be careful and take your time finding someone.