Serial con artist posed online as highly qualified childminder ‘Sadie Harris’ before being rumbled
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Serial fraudster Samantha Cookes received a number of offers to work as an au pair after she posed as an experienced childcare worker online.
The Sunday Independent has spoken with families who were persuaded to offer childcare work to “Sadie Harris”, the pseudonym Cookes used last year to secure six months’ work with a family in Celbridge, Co Kildare, before she was confronted about her real identity last month.