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NEW YORK (CBS News) ― The lawyer for the group of registered nurses that was providing free training to the nannies caring for octuplets mother Nadya Suleman's 14 children until Suleman told them to leave charges that Suleman is "AWOL" as a mother.

The head of that group describes the situation in Suleman's home as "chaotic" and totally lacking in security.

The allegations came in an interview Thursday with The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen.

Linda West Comforti, a registered nurse and founder of Angels in Waiting, told Chen the environment in the home in the Los Angeles suburb of La Habra is "chaotic, and that's an understatement. Her older children have no bedtime schedule, no schoolwork schedule. They're up till two o'clock in the morning, running around the house. I literally, myself, had to get one out of the backyard around 1:30 in the morning, because he was outside playing. He somehow escaped the nanny that was supposedly watching the older children, and he was outside playing. And I asked him to come in.

"And that was literally minutes before we had an intruder in the backyard at Nadya Suleman's house because there is no security that has been provided for her, the nurses or the babies that are in the nursery."

Comforti says she "rarely saw Nadya Suleman. She was either out shopping or up in her bedroom or just not available, not available to me and not available to her children."

Suleman told Radaronline.com one reason she kicked Angels in Waiting out was that Comforti kept saying Comforti feared that the children would probably be abducted. Suleman told the Web site hearing that over and over made her feel "almost nauseous" because she "harped on it."

"I was very, very concerned," Comforti confirmed to Chen. "One thing we have to understand is that these babies' faces are all over the world. We have -- I personally have had threats, that these babies need to be placed in other homes. I was very, very concerned.

"First of all, there's TV programs all over the lay of the house, showing where the lay of the house is or how to get into the backyard. We have locations on where the nurseries are. And I'm very, very concerned. We had no security whatsoever there. We had intruders three times in our backyard. By the time we called the cops, they were gone. And there's no security at all.

"My nurses were concerned. The nannies voiced concern. So, I talked to Nadya on several occasions. I talked to Nadya's dad (and told him) that I am very, very concerned that these infants could be abducted or even worse. Somebody could come in and hurt us all. Where is the security?"

"And in fact," said Gloria Allred, lawyer for Nurses in Waiting, "she asked Nadya to get a security guard, and I also sent an e-mail to her attorney about the need for security, given that there had been an intruder. And the attorney did not respond to my e-mail.

"In addition, Linda says that Nadya said that she couldn't afford a security guard, but she said that at the same time she was having an expensive Jacuzzi bathtub installed right next to her master bedroom. So I think that the security for the little babies and her other six children is more important than having a new Jacuzzi put in."

Allred says she plans no legal action over Suleman's fitness to care for her kids but, "Linda, as a registered nurse, who is a legally-mandated reporter, has a legal duty to reports to the authorities if she thinks the babies are being neglected or in any way endangered, has filed three reports, and we hope that the authorities, child protective services, will do what they can do to make sure that these little babies are protected, because, unfortunately, Nadya seems to be AWOL from taking real care of her own babies.

"She was only there to feed them and care for them eight hours of the 102 hours that Angels in Waiting was in the house. And she needs to get in there and start feeding her babies and bonding with her babies. And I don't mean just when the cameras are rolling, which is most of the time that she was there feeding them when we were there."

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