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Background checks for child care are limited

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 26, 2012

How can parents ensure that the people they find on child care websites are completely trustworthy? The short answer is they can’t. The case of David Ettlinger - a Newton teacher arrested on child porn charges who also advertised his services on online babysitter listings - sheds light on the limits of background checks, and the ability of child care search websites to endorse those who post their services online.

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