Arriving home one day, a nanny immediately sensed that something wasn’t right. She quickly grabbed the child she was looking after and made a run for it. It wasn’t until the child’s father watched the chilling CCTV footage that they fully understood what had happened.
Jonathan Le and his family live in Irvine, California. Le and his wife have a three-year-old son, but due to their busy lives, they can’t always be there 24/7. To ensure their child was well cared for, the couple decided to hire a nanny. They found the perfect candidate in Jenna Lee Baker. Little did they know just how important Baker would become in their lives.
One day in the summer of 2017, Baker and the three-year-old were out running errands. After finishing their tasks, the pair headed home, unaware of the terrifying events awaiting them. When Baker opened the door, she felt in her gut that something was off. Before she could act, the little boy had already skipped into the house. Instinctively sensing danger, Baker urged the child to come back. Fortunately, he did, as Baker soon heard footsteps pounding down the stairs.
Reacting swiftly, Baker dashed into the house, picked up the child, and ran straight to a neighbor’s house to get help. “I turned around and grabbed him,” Baker recalled when reenacting the scene for Inside Edition in August 2017. Barefoot and in panic, she fled down the driveway, clutching the boy tightly.
Later, when the child’s father reviewed the CCTV footage, the extent of the danger they had narrowly avoided became clear. The recording showed a burglar breaking into the family’s home while Baker and the child were out. The intruder walked into the kitchen, found Baker’s purse, and emptied its contents onto the counter, meticulously searching for valuables.
But the burglar didn’t stop there. He roamed through the rest of the house, even entering the children’s rooms in search of items to steal. “That’s my wife’s purse he’s got in his hand,” Le said while reviewing the footage. “To see him going into my kids’ rooms, just walking in—it’s the scariest thing for me.”
When Baker arrived home, the burglar seemed to realize his time was up. The footage captured him fleeing the house moments after the nanny and child had escaped. Local police later confirmed they were searching for a suspect described as an African-American male, aged 18 to 25, with a polka-dot backpack and weighing approximately 170 pounds.
According to Le, the burglar appeared to be communicating with someone on the phone throughout the break-in. “He was on his cell phone the entire time,” Le told ABC’s Eyewitness News. From entering the backyard to leaving the house, the suspect was likely coordinating with an accomplice.
Initially, the intruder had attempted to break in through a window. When that failed, he smashed through a glass door. Shockingly, the entire incident occurred in broad daylight. “The burglar tore down my whole sense of security,” Le admitted. “I feel very, very violated.”
Thankfully, the swift actions of Jenna Lee Baker prevented what could have been a far worse situation. The Le family now considers her their “Super Nanny.” “What she did for my son and what she does daily is unbelievable. I’m so grateful she’s in our lives,” Le shared with Inside Edition.
However, Baker humbly insists she was just doing her job. “I don’t think of myself as a hero,” she said. “I love him. When his parents are away, they put their trust in me to keep him safe.”
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