Complaint Review: Julia Moreno - House Manager - Julia Moreno Nanny - Julia Moreno child custody fraud - Costa Mesa California

People vs. Julia Davila, Case #07NM12825, filed October 11, 2007. This criminal misdemeanor case was filed against the subject for her violation of Penal Code 653m(b), Making Annoying Phone Calls. On December 17, 2008, she pleaded guilty to the offense.

The agency that failed to do an adequate background check, but still sent Julia Moreno (Davila) as an applicant to be our House Manager and Nanny, is called OC Nannies.

Court records reveal that Julia Moreno had a conviction in 2007.  OC Nannies says they pride themselves in doing a thorough background check.  However, they failed to disclose the following:

- Julia Moreno has a criminal record

- Julia Moreno was fired from her last job

- Julia Moreno's former employer told OC Nannies that Julia is not fit to work with children

- Julia Moreno did not show up for her CPR training

- Julia Moreno did not show up for her TB test

- Julia Moreno failed to show up for other classes, required by OC Nannies

It is scary to think that the most prestigious Nanny service in Newport Beach, one of the wealthiest places on the planet, would be so careless and reckless as to fail to properly vet an applicant, before sending her out to be interviewed and hired by a family.

Julia Moreno neglected my child. She lied. She gossipped incessantly about her former employer and may be doing the same thing about us.

Julia Moreno has told so many lies she cannot keep up with them. She told another family who wanted to hire her that we were movie stars. We are not.

We just found out that one of our employees, a housekeeper, who Julia told us just walked off the job, was actually fired by Julia Moreno. We were deceived about this. We could not understand why our housekeeper would just walk off the job. Well, she didn't.  Julia fired her and lied to us.

I have recently learned that Julia Moreo is claiming that we fired her and she is experiencing "hardship" (a legal term when you want to financially exploit someone with resources) as the result of this.  Although we did tell her we had some questions and needed to talk to her, we did not fire Julia Moreno. She beat us to the punch. She went home early on the day I said I wanted to speak with her. And the next day she let herself into the house and dropped off her keys, her receipts and the baby seat in her Lexus SUV.

The plot thickens sadly. Our housekeeper suddenly had no job because she was fired behind our backs. And we were decieved by Julia Moreno, who lied to us and said she quit.

I love it when people who have no education and their only skills are cleaning up after people think they can come in and tell you how to run your life. Freakin' crazy. If someone fed my kid junk or didn't feed them at all, I'd be livid.

Julia Moreno (Davila) was hired as our full charge House Manager. One of her duties was to be a nanny. A few week before suddenly abandoning her job, our 2 year old baby was getting sick. We learned this was due to neglect on the part of her caretaker. When I told Julia Moreno that I had some questions about this and needed to speak with her, she went home early. She did not return calls over the weekend.

When she let herself into my house in the morning, when she came back to work, she quietly dropped off her keys, her receipts for petty cash and the baby seat for her Lexus SUV.

We called her several times to ask what is going on. She did not return calls or texts. At that point we also learned that she was hiding food in the house. This was junk food, which she was feeding our children instead of real food.

I later learned that her oldest son called the police on her, several times, saying that she was not feeding him. I contacted her previous employer and learned that she had actually been fired, for mistreatment of their children, including feeding nothing but chocolate milk to their 4 year old, who became violently ill.

On the day that Julia abandoned her job, she took our 10 year old to school, without feeding her breakfast and without sending her to school with a lunch or lunch money.

We take full responsibility for hiring someone who we should not have hired. However, she had good references (which may turn out to be fraudulent).

Presently Julia Moreno is making statements to numerous people that she was overworked and then fired. She claims we are harassing her. Her previous employer, of 9 years, tells me that is what she does and to expect some sort of vicious and malicious retaliation, both to save face and to potentially take advantage of my family's resources by threatening a bogus lawsuit.

Julia Moreno deceived us. We later learned that the reason she wanted to be paid in cash was to deceive her ex husband, Mr. Davila, and to defraud the IRS, so that she could get out of paying her share in a child custody arrangement.

Finally, in speaking to her prior employer at length, it became clear that Julia Moreno had violated my family's confidentiality. But she violated her previous employer's confidentiality so much worse. I know more about these people than I should - and I question the validity of most of what Julia Moreno gossiped about them.

I am writing this report, not for revenge, but to warn other families who may be considering bringing Julia Moreno into their homes and into their children's lives.

She comes off as sweet and that is disarming. She started off by doing a fantastic job. Then she tried to turn husband against wife and had several tantrums when we were not willing to run our house her way. She became abrasive, hostile and passive-aggressive. We are fortunate that this problem did not get worse, as it had gotten much worse for her previous employer. I feel it is my responsibility to warn the world about a woman whom I personally believe to be a Sociopath.

When I contacted you your primary concern was your fee.  It took some time for me to get you to see the bigger picture here, which is that you sent out someone whom you confessed did not attend your required CPR training, TB test and the other tests you require in order to placea a nanny in a home.

So on the one hand were distancing yourself from Julia Moreno, since she turned out to be someone who is dangerous to children. But you also want to collect a $6,000 fee for placing her. 

Please advise me as to which one it is. Either you placed her, in which case we may owe you a fee and you may be liable for placing a dangerous person in our house, one who did not complete your own screening process.  Or, she placed herself, in which case you have no liability but you are not owed a fee.

In reading your rebuttal, it sounds like you would like the best of both worlds. You want to be paid for placing Julia Moreno in our home.  And you want to distance yourself from having anything to do with an unscreened applicant being placed in our home.  You can't have it both ways.  Which is it?

I own a Nanny agency and I have been in business for over 30 years.  Last Friday we got a call from a former client.  This client told us he had hired a nanny we had introduced to him, last year in June of 2014, but he had not paid our finder’s fee or made us aware he wanted to hire Julia Moreno.

We were very surprised to hear from him since his wife told us they had decided to keep their nanny and would not be needing our service. This is the typical story we get when a client does not want to pay the fee.  He then told me that Julia had lied to them. Supposedly Julia had made up a story that she had worked at my agency and she was our friend, therefore he didn't have to pay us the fee.  Except this doesn’t make any sense since his wife NEVER disclosed this information to us, instead she told us her nanny was staying.  

The client understood we charged a finder’s fee and had even signed an agreement this was all very clear.  How can anyone be so naive not to be suspicious and ask the agency if this was true?  Had they told us this, we would have caught Julia in a lie and they would have NEVER hired her.  Their children did not have to suffer the consequences of Julia’s neglect and actions.  

As far as our agency and our screening process, our agency is very thorough and we would never take a chance to refer someone to a new client if we had not screened and checked all the references first.  Julia's previous employers all spoke very highly of her.  Her previous employer were she had worked for 9 years, gave her a high recommendation and wrote her a letter.

A complete profile of Julia was disclosed to the client with the letter of reference and phone numbers of the families where she worked.  The client confessed they didn’t bother calling the references or even checked her background.  Our agency runs a criminal background as well.  Unfortunately we were not aware they had hired Julia and had kept her for six months. The client told me Julia was one of the best people he had ever hired and right away gave her a raise. For the first 2 months Julia had done an exceptional job.

Apparently things changed very quickly.  Had the client told us the truth we would have strongly advised them not to hire Julia.  If she was lying to them she was not to be trusted with the care of their children.

When our client contacted us, at first he was very upset we had introduced this lady to him.  This seemed outrageous since he had hired Julia on his own and not through our agency.  We would NEVER in good conscience refer a nanny with any kind of questionable background.  The “only “reason we introduced Julia to the client is because her previous employers spoke very highly of her.  This client tells me the family were Julia had worked for 9 years wanted Julia to return to work for them just last week after he let her go. But after he explained to them his experience with Julia they had changed their minds.   

The sad part is the children did not have to suffer or be neglected by Julia. Had the client come to us and told us the truth and what was happening, we could have prevented this, and we could have warn other agencies about Julia so she could not get a job as a nanny a person like this should not be around children. .   I am happy that my previous client wrote this report this is out and parents and the agencies can be aware of this person.

My only problem is that his comments hurt the reputation of my agency.  It’s important to tell the whole story.

Cordially,

Agency Owner.

This report does not say that Julia Moreno (married name Davilla) is an illegal alien. What was stated is that she hired a housekeeper to work under her and a handyman/gardener, whom we have concerns about regarding the status of their citizenship.

The purpose of filing this report is not revenge. Rather, it is to notify future families who may be doing a background search, that Julia Moreno neglected our children, was hostile, deceptive and a few other concerns.

If someone still want to hire her after all of that, it's their business and not mine.  As stated previously, I wish that this type of information was more readily available in general, as I have over the years hired people who turned out to be not who or what they represented themselves to be. When it comes to your kids, you should know who it is you're bringing into your home.

Julia knew that I wanted to talk to her on Saturday about not feeding the baby and not changing the baby. She left early instead. On her next work day she came in quietly and dropped off her keys, some receipts and the baby seat from her car. For days after that she would not return our calls or texts.

Now she is saying that we threatened her and that the hardship from all of this is causing her health problems. I feel that is a desperate move and an opportunistic move, given that she wants to save face and possibly cash in on a family with some resources (even though we were really good to her).

The family that she worked for previously has told me that they also fired her and that they have told her never to contact them again and to stay away from their children.  That is the last 10 years of her employment history.

When I contacted one of the nanny hiring agencies she was registered with, they also expressed some concerns about Julia Moreno and her misrepresentation of herself and her past work history.

At this point, we are sort of bracing ourselves for some kind of retaliation from Julia Moreno, given her desperate attempts to draw her family members into this and spin this whole thing as if she is the one being victimized.

We had a similar experience with our House Manager who was from Mexico. I can tell you right now that Child Services won't do anything. Unless there are scars or bruises, they just take down a report and then nothing happens. You need to sue the agency that referred her to you and then sue her. It's a civil matter and not criminal. I feel your pain. We were also charmed by our lady and felt like fools once we discovered how badly we had been fooled and how our kids were being mistreated. Somebody should write a news article about this because it happens a lot. Some dear friends of ours also had this kind of experience as well. And Child Services was useless for them as well. These agencies don't care about anything but their commission. You just can't be too careful about whom you trust to come into your home and care for your children. Go after her!

You should definitely contact her previous employer and tell the everything negative she said about them, just as a courtesy. They have a right to know. It was decent of you not to say their names, but they have a right to know about this. I mean, come on. These people come into this great country and you give them a job and this is how ungrateful you are treated? You need to contact all the agencies and put the word out so nobody else has someone do this to their little baby. When you trust someone with your child after and agency says they vetted them and then come to find out they probably just sent you a resume and then wanted a fee, that just makes me sick with anger. She should not be allowed to get away with this nor should the agency that sent her over. Ugh!

OMG - this sounds exactly like a lady who worked for me from a nanny service in Newport Beach. She kept blowing up at me and telling me how she disapproved of how I was raising my children. And she was super religious but also kinda shady. Does she go to Harvest?

Julia Moreno (Married Last Name was Davila). Mr. Davila, your ex wife is scamming you out of paying her share of custody.  From July of Janurary was approximately $6,000 per month. She resides at:

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 You hire an ILLEGAL ALIEN and after finding out she is here illegally you did not report her to ICE?? Or Immigration??

You are then liable for hiring a criminal and subject to fines/jail which I hope you get.  I could care less about your "status" or "professional" grandeur.  It is up to you to do a background check on anyone you hire to watch your CHILDREN!! Forget the "egg shell" crap.  That is YOUR home and you should not have to subject anyone to her behavior.

YOU need to own up to breaking the law (again) and grow up. REPORT HER!