One nanny is out to prove everyone - even employees - deserves some privacy, and she isn’t going to let cops, prosecutors or even an ex-judge stop her. Last January, Vanessa Rivas was working as a nanny for politically-connected Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Lauren Angelo Seltzer when she discovered a hidden spy camera in the bathroom where she regularly changed.
She quickly grabbed the memory card and filed a police report against her boss, but cops AND prosecutors tried to get her to drop the case. In fact the NYPD threatened to arrest her if she didn’t destroy the memory card or hand it over, but she refused.
Seltzer then made the nanny a financial offer in order to get her to sign an agreement to “end this,” but Rivas taped the conversation and again tried to get justice, but to no avail. Both the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys are refusing to bring charges, but Rivas isn’t about to back down.
Rivas has now filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against her boss, seeking unspecified damages. While it is legal to record someone in common areas of a home without their knowledge, it is technically illegal to record anyone in areas where there is a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” Seltzer, for her part, has denied any wrongdoing to the “New York Post."
Source: New York Post