I faked the forced entry of a robbery!

A year ago, I traveled to America to become an au pair, where you live in another’s home and care for their children. I was lucky to be working for a lovely family, who owned a nice house and a car that I was allowed full use of.

One day, I was asked to pick the children up from school and take them to their friends’ house where they were staying the night. I left the house that afternoon a little earlier in order to go for a quick shop before picking the kids up, but I ended up arriving at the shops later than I’d expected. I didn’t have that much time, so I quickly parked the car and entered the supermarket, forgetting to lock the car doors.

Fifteen minutes later I returned to the car, only realising then that I had forgotten to lock it up. As I jumped in, a sudden panic rose inside of me. I finally noticed that the children’s overnight bags and one of the kid’s scooters were missing. The car had obviously been robbed and expensive items, including the scooter and a Game Boy, were stolen. I immediately burst into tears, knowing that it was all my fault because I left the car unlocked. I also began to worry about what the family would say and think of me, as they had warned me earlier about the crime in that area.

As I became more and more worried, I suddenly decided that I couldn’t take the blame for it, so I came up with a scam to cover my negligent act! I drove the car around the corner and smashed the window in with a rock — making it appear that the robber had forced entry into the car. At the time, it didn’t hit me that what I was doing would only cause the family more expenses; all I was concerned with was taking the blame away from me!

That evening was a bad one as I spent most of the time stewing over my deception of that family and deeply regretting what I had done. What made the guilt worse was that after seeing me so upset, the family continued to attempt to comfort me by saying, “It wasn’t your fault, don’t worry about it.”