Deranged Housekeeper Kidnaps Chabad Rabbi's Baby

A deranged housekeeper kidnapped a five-month-old girl from the Great Neck rabbi who recently fired her – and planned to take the baby with her to Uruguay, Long Island authorities said today.

Gloria Suarez

LI housekeeper kidnaps baby after being fired by rabbi
By KIERAN CROWLEY and DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN • New York Post

A deranged housekeeper kidnapped a five-month-old girl from the Great Neck rabbi who recently fired her – and planned to take the baby with her to Uruguay, Long Island authorities said today.

Silver-haired Gloria Suarez, angry over losing her summer job Monday as a maid for Rabbi Yitzchok Hayempour and his eleven children, told cops she took baby Esther because "the baby would get more love and attention from me than she would ever get from (the Hayempours)."

"I know that they say the baby is theirs, but I know that the baby should belong to me," Suarez told cops.

Hayempour allowed Suarez, 55, to stay in their home until Wednesday, which is the only time the maid said she could get back into her Manhattan apartment, said Tammy Hayempour, 42, Esther’s mother.

Instead, cops said the baby-crazed maid spent two days honing her plans to abduct Esther by buying baby supplies, clothes and apple juice.

On Wednesday morning, Suarez asked if she could spend time with the baby before she left, Tammy said.

Unbeknownst to Tammy, Suarez used her goodbye time to change Esther out of her pink clothes and into a blue boy’s outfit – with sleeves long enough to cover a distinct birthmark on the baby’s forearm, the mom said.

Suarez then took the baby in her arms and fled the house on foot without the baby’s stroller, cops said.

Rabbi Hayempour was driving back from a bris he was attending when he saw Suarez walking with his baby, and he stopped his car to ask the woman where she was going.

"I said ‘we’re going to CVS,’" Suarez told cops.

Suarez eventually hopped a cab to the Roslyn Railroad Station in Roslyn Heights, where as she waited for a NYC-bound LIRR train. Meanwhile, Esther’s frantic family contacted cops, stopped buses, and reached out to every local cab company – and located the company that took Suarez to the train station.

Suarez was arrested at the station, but not without a fight.

"I fought them off and would not give her to them, but they were eventually able to get her," Suarez told cops.

Esther’s relieved mom said she never thought Suarez would be the kidnapping type.

"She wanted a child and she told me many times. I should have been suspicious," said Tammy.

At her arraignment at Nassau County First District Court this morning, Nassau prosecutor Melissa Lewis said Suarez intended to "take the child out of the county. . . and out of the country to Uruguay."

Suarez was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and resisting arrest. She is being held without bail.

Chabad.info tells a slightly different story and blames police for inaction:

…The maid, Gloria Suarez, a 53-year-old native of Uruguay, had been in the United States for 11 years on a work visa. Ms. Suarez had been a live-in maid with the Chayempours over the summer months. She was hired through an agency that vets and does background checks on all the maids that they refer before recommending them for hire.

According to the family, Ms. Suarez had finished working for them this past Friday and had moved her belongings out, but she had requested to stay a few more days until she had arranged her new place to stay, which the Shluchim allowed.…

He asked his wife if she let the maid take the baby out, and she responded that she had not left Esti alone with her, and that she didn’t even know that she had left.

Right away family members began a frantic search, going store to store, and mobilizing the community to search for the maid. Minute to minute it became increasingly clear that this was, in fact, an abduction.…

Nassau County Police were notified, but the police were reluctant to rush and classify the incident as an abduction, saying that they needed to wait more time, and that maybe the maid would show up with the infant.

This wasn’t satisfactory to the family, and the father’s own frantic search led him back to the CVS, where he ran into a member of his community who recommended that he check the local bus station, since that would be a preferred method of travel for the maid.

Of the only two bus lines that run in the area, Yitzchok ran over to the bus stop and asked one of drivers if he remembered the maid, who has very distinct long silvery hair. To his luck, the driver remembered dropping off a pair with the exact description! He even remembered dropping her off near Stepping Stone Park.

The father rushed over to the park where he met the park security and asked them if they had seen the maid with a child. Once again thanks to her distinctive appearance they had remembered the maid, and that she thought that the park was a train station. Thinking she was confused, security called a taxi for her, but they did not know what her destination was.

It was around this time that the police started getting proactively involved in the search. After learning that the maid had gotten into a cab, the police reached out to all the local cab companies, and moments later got a response from one of them saying that they had just dropped off a pair of passengers matching the description at the Roslyn Train Station.

Roslyn Police were immediately notified and they rushed over to the station, where they found the maid with the baby standing on the platform waiting for a train. When police asked her whose baby it was, she replied that it was her own. When they inquired further, she changed her story, saying it was her brother's child and she was going to meet him.

When police attempted to take the maid into custody, a struggle broke out as she refused to part with the baby; only after some negotiations did she give in and police placed her under arrest.…

And according to Chabad.info, during the crisis, the baby's mother did this:

“When my husband came into the house looking for Esti and Gloria and we started looking for them, I wrote in to the Ohel [the Rebbe's grave], and that is when we started getting leads which ultimately lead to us finding our baby” said Tamar.

This would appear to have been done before police were called.

That police would not classify the incident as an abduction in the first few minutes after they were contacts is normal, because they don't want to choke the Amber Alert system with thousands of false cases, which would make the entire system useless.

And a close reading of the two accounts shows that Mrs. Hayempour most likely did allow Suarez to spend time with the baby, and that Mrs. Hayempour did not even realize her baby was missing until her husband told her.

In a situation like that, police have little choice but to view the incident as a probable miscommunication between Mrs. Hayempour and Suarez. (Indeed, that is why learning that Suarez entered a taxi with the baby prompted the police to treat the incident as a probable abduction.)

In other words, inconsistent stories and confusing or add behavior by family members did not help police recognize the incdent as a kidnapping.

Comments

[Q]

May the cleaning lady rot in hell.

[Gefilte Fish]

So the mother wasted time by writing to the dead Rebbe instead of calling the police.

[Q]

So the mother wasted time by writing to the dead Rebbe instead of calling the police.

Really disgusting. I don't agree with Chabad, I think theyre as crazy as you think they are. There are so many other, more ppropriate times and places on this site to bash chabad. But not now!

You're about as smart as a gefilte fish, your namesake.

[Simple Jew]

B"H

Baruch Hashem

Why can't you realize that her writing to the Rebbe helped?

I have been helped by nissim when I went to the Ohel with problems.

[Shira]

see what happens when you dont call shomrim first??

Oh wait...

[jancsipista]

i also was helped asked the rebbe if i should continue to play the lotto his answer was continue until you hit the jackpot well that has been over 20 years ago i am still counting on the rebbe to one day hit the big one maybee moshiah will come before that who knows:).

[Maple Bacon]

To be fair, I think the housekeeper caught "derangeditis" while working for those Chabads. :)

[Gefilte Fish]

Hey Q,

If my kid was in danger, I would call the police FIRST. The rebbe can be consulted later.

[Guest]

I would definitely consult with the Rebbe first. I firmly believe that the Rebbe actually came out of his grave and caught the lady. If I say it enough times, it may even be true.

Chabad: The closest religion to Judaism.

[Steven]

With a family of 20 people, I am sure the other 19 can call the police etc while one writes in. It's not that one person was kratzing and thinking should I call the police or write in first.

[Korbendallas72]

B"H

Baruch Hashem

Why can't you realize that her writing to the Rebbe helped?

I have been helped by nissim when I went to the Ohel with problems.

Posted by: Simple Jew | August 25, 2011 at 05:46 PM

Xtians that pray to saints say the same thing, you know. That's not even cool among most xtians. This is different because your intermediary idol shaliach is invoked in the same breath as Hashem? Really?

[mordecai]

B"H

Baruch Hashem

Why can't you realize that her writing to the Rebbe helped?

I have been helped by nissim when I went to the Ohel with problems.

Posted by: Simple Jew | August 25, 2011 at 05:46 PM

Why can't you realize that you are an idol worshiper

[Gefilte Fish]

Steven,

Re-read the article. The mother wrote to the rebbe BEFORE the police were called.

Simple Jew,

If you are having problems making a decision or if you are having an existential crisis, go ahead, write to the rebbe. If your child is in imminent danger, call the police or get a lifeguard or remove the kid from the situation (whichever is most prudent); THEN you can call/write/page/fax/email/twitter the rebbe all you like.

[Turd degree]

Why did she have to steal the child?! All she needed to do was go to the Ohel and ask for one. And if she would have pledged to name it Chaya Mushka, she would've undoubtedly given birth even before leaving the cemetery.

[Jake]

Nassau county police department is pretty good. The rabbi lives inNassau.
Very responsive. If o called now I would have a car here in less then 2 minutes.

[Adam Neira]

Prayers for the child.

[Yissy-CA]

And according to Chabad.info, during the crisis, the baby's mother did this:

“When my husband came into the house looking for Esti and Gloria and we started looking for them, I wrote in to the Ohel [the Rebbe's grave], and that is when we started getting leads which ultimately lead to us finding our baby” said Tamar.

You wrote a fucking letter to your DEAD rabbi? You didn't call police first, you didn't ask HASHEM? Thank GOD (Hashem, not schneerson)this child was found unharmed. She seems to suggest that scheerson helped find the baby and NOT the panicked father who went out searching. These people do not worship the God of Israel.

[Steven]

She wrote the letter, he called the cops. Not difficult to understand. What would you like her to do while he is on the phone?

[FishHawk]

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[Chochom]

Monsey man gets jail, probation for sex abuse

http://www.lohud.com/article/20110826/NEWS03/108260347/Monsey-man-gets-jail-probation-sex-abuse

"Grossman was arrested June 8, 2010, by Ramapo police, based on a complaint from Rockland Child Protective Services accusing him of improperly touching a child's penis numerous times over a period of several years. The child was younger than 8."

The guy lives on Remsen Ave, in a totally Haredi area of Monsey.

[shimon baum]

This maid looks like a lunatic just from that photo these people never noticed that. How is it that the father just drives by the maid after she was all ready fired and doesn't question why shes taking his child to CVS. I can't wait for this story to come out in the next edition of that stupid newsletter they publish about writing to the Rebbe.

[Isa]

""""“When my husband came into the house looking for Esti and Gloria and we started looking for them, I wrote in to the Ohel [the Rebbe's grave], and that is when we started getting leads which ultimately lead to us finding our baby” said Tamar.""""

Typical Chabad Rebbe lie. Of course the lady COULD have written the letter.
For instance... Have a real idol in your house e.g a brass calf. Every time you want something a candle is lit.

Some wishes WILL come true!

[Litvish]

Where Xtains have a picture of Yoshke Pundit on the wall, the Lubavitchers have their Yoshke, Saint Schneersohn.

You will see his punim adorning the wall of every single Chabad home.

Now we know who the erev rav are.

[Alter Kocker]

Pictures of St. Schneersohn on a wall often remind me of Orbitz roaming gnome. Worship of the gnome might get you big discounts on airfare!!!!!!

[benzo]

Is there possibly a lesson here.....how about not hiring goyish babysitters to raise our children! Not that this could not happen if the babysitter was Jewish and deranged but too often we are allowing others to raise the precious neshamot that Hashem has entrusted to us. We hire people that do not have the same belief system as we do and wonder why our children are going off the derech.

[Nigritude Ultramarine]

"What a maroon!"1

Everybody knows St. Jude is the one you have to contact for a desperate situation like this.

"So the mother wasted time by writing to the dead Rebbe instead of calling the police."