| Look accidents happen to EVERYONE. The only way to guarantee that nothing every happens to your child is to look after them yourself - then you have no one else to blame when things go wrong. It sounds like either way, it was an accident. No one does things right 100% of the time.
I agree that her post-accident behaviour is not good - but I think it is understandable. She is obviously afraid for her job, and probably very sorry about what has happened.
Your suggestion that you somehow don't need to give her a months notice if you want to hire her is not great, either. If you want to be a responsible employer, you should give her the month's notice (or, I guess, a month's payment in lieu) and a ticket back to HK to pick up her belongings. I think you would also be responsible for her ticket back to her home country (?).
You might want to consider the practicalities before you fire her quickly, given that you do have a substantial amount of time left in the US before you can look for another helper (if this is the way you want to go).  |