Imagine finding out the woman who’s been watching your children, driving your car and spending hours in your house is a wanted fugitive from another state.
That’s the reality for the Leochko family in North Carolina.
“We feel exposed and we feel very vulnerable,” said Garrett Leochko, who’s originally from southern Ontario.
Scripps News Buffalo learned Friday that a Western New York woman was accused of stealing nearly $500,000 from St. Amelia Church in Tonawanda, a suburb of Buffalo. That’s the woman they hired to be their nanny.
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Garrett and his wife Leah are new to North Carolina; they moved from a suburb outside Toronto and were in need of care for their four children, ages 7, 6, 5, and 4.
“We were desperate, wife traveling and me working. She came in one morning, met all the kids. …