Cruel California nanny caught abusing two-day-old baby used fake reference from daughter to get the job and has ‘fled to China’
The sadistic nanny who shocked the world this week when a video emerged of her throwing, hitting and choking a two-day-old baby only got the job thanks to a reference written by her daughter, DailyMail.com has learned.
The cruel caregiver has since been identified as Guitan Liu, who has now fled to her native China amid calls for her to be brought back to California to face justice.
Her daughter Christina Liu has also been fired from TikTok for her alleged part in the sickening scheme, sources told DailyMail.com.
The maternity sitter was hired by a couple – who did not want to be named – in the town of Hillsborough, 15 miles south of San Francisco, to help care for their daughter, who was born in late September.
But within weeks, the new parents discovered the horrific images of their baby girl being abused by their trusted caregiver on their baby monitor.
The troubled father and mother have come forward to publicly bring attention to other parents, and local police are now seeking help from federal authorities to find Liu.
The mother, who identified herself on social media only as “Bay Area Mom D,” released several gruesome nanny cam videos in which Liu, who is in her mid-50s, hurts her screaming child.
In a series of Instagram posts detailing the disturbing discovery, the mother claims she and her husband were tricked by Liu’s daughter into hiring Liu – whom she has called the “world’s most evil maternity girl.”
The cruel caregiver was caught beating, choking and throwing the newborn around like a rag doll in the nanny’s shocking CCTV footage
The anguished mother of the newborn girl, born in late September, has now shared images and called for justice on social media
Liu, who has yet to be charged, was initially “highly recommended” when she got the job with the Chinese-American family at their $8 million luxury home located on an upscale cul-de-sac.
Liu’s reference had presented herself in a Chinese social media post as the nanny’s former employer and mother of two and praised the woman as trustworthy.
But the newborn’s mother said it wasn’t until afterward that she discovered the reference was actually the nanny’s daughter, Christina, who worked at TikTok in Fresno, California.
An internal source at TikTok told DailyMail.com that the company confronted Christina Liu about her involvement in the case and has since terminated her employment.
Christina Liu did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
“I welcomed my sweet daughter into the world at the end of September,” the mother wrote on Instagram. ‘Unfortunately, we soon had to deal with a devastating experience. We need public attention and professional support to hold this family accountable.”
Hillsborough police said the evidence “reflects multiple incidents of suspected child abuse” and that “investigators have confirmed the suspect’s identity and are working with federal law enforcement agencies to locate and interview the individual.”
The child was born in mid-September. When they returned from the hospital later that month, the nanny came to stay with them.
“On the morning of October 2, we happened to see on the live baby monitor that the babysitter was being a little rough with our baby,” the mother recalled.
The mother, who identified herself only as “Bay Area Mom D,” called the woman the world’s “most evil maternity sitter” on social media
The troubled father and mother have come forward to raise public awareness among other parents, and local police are now seeking help from federal authorities to find Liu.
The nanny, who has not been identified because no charges have been filed against her, was initially ‘highly recommended for the job’
She and her husband immediately confronted the caregiver and told her to be more careful. The new nanny, a middle-aged woman, started crying and said, “She would never do something like that to a baby,” the mother said.
Later that evening, the newborn’s father viewed more images from the monitor and discovered that this was not an isolated incident.
They fired her the next morning, and the mother noted that “she acted aggressively toward the termination.”
The father then downloaded all the videos to see the horrific extent of the abuse.
The babysitter, who was standing over the crib, could be seen repeatedly shaking the child, smothering her with a blanket, hitting her on the face and body, striking her with a milk bottle and violently throwing her over a bed.
The child lets out ear-piercing screams as the babysitter delivers more abuse without apparent hesitation.
“I cannot put into words how traumatized we are and cannot watch all the videos of her being aggressively abused,” the mother recalled on Instagram earlier this month.
The parents took the child to doctors for x-rays and an MRI of the brain, where they fortunately found that there was no apparent serious damage, although more tests are still being carried out.
They also alerted the police. However, the babysitter was apparently already on the run.
“By the time we downloaded all the video evidence and turned it over to the police, (the nanny) had already left the country and, with the help of her daughter, managed to flee back to China,” the mother wrote.
In a series of posts, she explained her decision to make her family’s horrific experiences public.
In footage too graphic and disturbing to be made public, the babysitter, standing over the crib, was seen repeatedly shaking the child, smothering her with a blanket and hitting her on the face and body.
It is believed the nanny has fled to her native China. However, the child’s mother claims the woman used her own daughter – whom she identified as Christina Lu – as a reference
The parents said the nanny seemed “legitimate” based on their phone call before they hired her
“I’m writing this post as a very concerned mother who has had unimaginable problems with a nanny we hired,” she wrote.
“We are looking for public attention and support,” she added. ‘We don’t give up, we want justice!
More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition on change.org calling on federal authorities to investigate.
The parents sat around the table incognito a local ABC affiliate Monday.
“We all thought we could trust her,” the father told ABC7 News. “I never thought something like this could happen.”
“Just a few days of this kind of abuse can have lifelong consequences for a baby,” he worried.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told DailyMail.com that he is particularly concerned about possible neurological damage to the baby.
“Sometimes you don’t know for years what the neurological damage is,” he said.
He said the nanny could face multiple charges of cruelty to a child, each of which could carry up to six years in prison.
“It is clear that she will face a double-digit prison sentence if she is found and convicted,” Wagstaffe said.
“I have seen dozens of cases of child abuse over decades,” he continued.
‘What struck me differently here is the age of the child, only a few days old. How can you be more vulnerable? I don’t know any other word to describe this than evil.’