By Margaret McHugh
Star-Ledger Staff
The Star Ledger 01/30/02
A Chester Township couple’s “nanny cam” caught their infant’s caregiver urinating on the baby’s clothing, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Morris-town.
Charles and Carolyn Borinsky are suing the nanny and a New Your City child care referral agency that “highly recommended” Jacqueline Ortiz to them, according to the lawsuit, which became public yesterday.
Ortiz moved into the Borinsky’s South Road home on June 2, a month after their first child, Arthur, was born. For $160 a day, she was to be a round-the-clock nanny for at least a month, sleeping in the baby’s room, with him at night on a rollaway bed, according to the lawsuit.
Ortiz, who lives in Stroudsburg, Pa., had been recommended to the Borinskys by Rhonda Warren, owner of Carriages Infant and Child Care Agency LLC in Manhattan, the lawsuit said. The company collected $32 of Ortiz’ daily pay under the contract the Borinskys signed.
Before Ortiz moved in, the Borinskys installed a video surveillance system, with cameras in the living room, the baby’s room and the basement, the lawsuit said. They reviewed the tapes daily.
One tape showed Ortiz urinating into the baby’s diaper hamper at 2:30 a.m., June 15, the lawsuit said. When they saw it, they ordered her out of the house.
Footage from June 14 revealed three other incidents, the lawsuit said.