The sadistic nanny who shocked the world this week when video emerged of her throwing, slapping and suffocating a two-day-old baby only got the job through a reference written by her daughter, DailyMail.com has learned.
The cruel caretaker 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.
His daughter Christina Liu was also fired from her job at TikTok for her alleged involvement in the sickening scheme, sources told DailyMail.com.
The maternity nanny was hired by a couple, who do not wish to be identified, in the city of Hillsborough, 15 miles south of San Francisco, to help care for their young daughter born in late September.
But within weeks, new parents would discover on their baby monitor the horrifying images of their baby being abused by her trusted caregiver.
The distraught mother and father have come forward to publicly raise awareness among other parents, and local police are now requesting help from federal authorities to find Liu.
The mother, who identified herself only as ‘Bay Area Mom D’ on social media, posted several horrifying nanny cam videos showing Liu, in her 50s, inflicting pain on her screaming son.
In a series of Instagram posts detailing the disturbing discovery, the mother claims she and her husband were tricked into hiring Liu, whom she has called the “world’s most malicious maternity nanny,” by Liu’s daughter .
The cruel carer was caught slapping, choking and throwing the newborn like a rag doll in shocking nanny-camera footage.
The distraught mother of the newborn, born at the end of September, is now sharing images and calling for justice on social media.
Liu, who has not yet been charged, was initially “highly recommended” when she landed the position with the Chinese-American family at their $8 million luxury home, located on a posh cul-de-sac.
Liu’s reference introduced herself as the nanny’s former employer and mother of two in a post on Chinese social media and praised the woman as trustworthy.
But the newborn’s mother said she didn’t discover until later that the reference was actually the babysitter’s own daughter, Christina, who worked at TikTok in Fresno, California.
An internal TikTok source 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.
“At the end of September, I welcomed my sweet baby girl into the world,” the mom wrote on Instagram. ‘Unfortunately, we were soon faced with a devastating experience. “We need public attention and professional support to hold this family accountable.”
Hillsborough police said the evidence “represents multiple cases of suspected child abuse” and that “inspectors have confirmed the identity of the suspect and are collaborating with federal law enforcement agencies to locate and interview the individual.”
The child was born in mid-September. The babysitter came to stay with them when they returned from the hospital later that month.
“On the morning of October 2, we saw on the live baby monitor that the babysitter was being a little harsh on our baby,” the mother recalled.
The mother, who identified herself only as ‘Bay Area Mom D,’ called the woman the world’s ‘mischievous maternity nanny’ on social media.
The distraught mother and father have come forward to publicly raise awareness among other parents, and local police are now requesting help from federal authorities to find Liu.
The nanny, who has not been identified because she has not been charged, was initially “highly recommended for the job.”
She and her husband immediately confronted the caregiver and told him to be more careful. The new babysitter, a middle-aged woman, began to cry and said, “she would never do such a thing to a baby,” the mother said.
Later that night, the newborn’s father reviewed more images from the monitor and discovered that this was not an isolated incident.
She was fired the next morning and the mother noted that she “acted aggressively until she was fired.”
The father then downloaded all the videos to see the horrific extent of the abuse.
The babysitter could be seen, standing over the crib, repeatedly shaking the baby, smothering her with a blanket, slapping her on the face and body, hitting her with a bottle of milk and violently throwing her onto the bed.
The child lets out ear-piercing screams as the babysitter inflicts more abuse without apparent hesitation.
“I can’t put into words how traumatized we are and I can’t see all the videos where she was aggressively abused,” the mother recalled on Instagram earlier this month.
The parents took the boy to doctors for X-rays and a brain MRI, and fortunately they found that there was no apparent serious damage, although more tests are being done.
They also notified the police. The babysitter, however, had apparently already fled.
“By the time we downloaded all the video evidence and handed 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 go public with her family’s horrific experience.
In images that are too graphic and disturbing to make public, the babysitter can be seen, standing next to the crib, repeatedly shaking the baby, smothering her with a blanket and slapping her on the face and body.
The nanny is now believed to have fled to her native China. However, the baby’s mother claimed that the woman used her own daughter, whom she identified as Christina Lu, as a reference.
The parents said the babysitter seemed “legitimate” from their phone call before hiring her.
“I write this post as a deeply concerned mother who endured unimaginable hardship with a nanny we hired,” she wrote.
“We seek attention and support from the public,” he added. ‘We will not give up: we want justice!
More than 34,000 people signed an online petition on change.org urging federal authorities to investigate.
The parents, incognito, sat with a local ABC affiliate Monday.
“We all thought we could trust her,” the father told ABC7 News. “I never imagined something like this could happen.”
“A few days of this type of abuse could have consequences for a baby’s entire life,” she worries.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told DailyMail.com he is particularly concerned about any neurological damage to the baby.
“Sometimes you can’t tell what the neurological damage is for years,” he said.
He said the babysitter could face multiple felony charges of cruelty to a child, each of which carries up to six years in prison.
“Clearly, she will face double-digit years in prison if she is found and convicted,” Wagstaffe said.
“I have seen dozens of cases of child abuse over decades,” he continued.
‘What caught my attention here is the age of the child, who is only a few days old. How can you be more vulnerable? I don’t know any other word to describe this other than evil.