Some parents need...something. *another LONG story*

So today early evening I throw some clothes on and grab my bare foot child…were only going to the gas station real quick after all. I’m heading down the busiest road in town…it’s a small two lane…but it’s a main drag from our city to the next, at 6:30pm its always 90 or nothing and balls to the walls on that street…so I pull out and am driving along…trying to get Raigen to be quiet for one minute so I can focus on driving.(a battle I have fought in the car with her since birth) Well I’m trucking along down the road…its under heavy development at the moment so work trucks are all over the place…but its still not developed a lot and we have a lot of empty lots…canals and dirt paths for ATV’s and dirt bikes…well I’m driving along look down to make sure I’m under the speed limit (I have a lead foot) and when I look up I have to swerve and lock up my brakes to avoid hitting…a baby walking down the street wearing only a diaper! I look behind me and thank god for once no one was tail gating…I pull and quick u-turn and wedge my car on half on the side of the road and scream out my window at him…still walking down the street thank god he didn’t take off running on me…so there I am running down the road after this baby…luckily (and sadly) he allowed a stranger to pick him up…another car saw this and stopped…. there are only 2 homes one this street…every other lot is still empty…. on the other side of the road was a canal!

He was near a house for sale which is empty so I called the cops….moved my car and got my own 2 year old out…hoping maybe he would calm down after seeing her…he didn’t speak at all and looked Spanish…had a lot of scars all over him aswell…I call 911 and they send a car…15 minutes after almost hitting him a child maybe 12 comes out of this house and says she was looking for him…I lecture her…well more like scream…for the next few minutes as mama hormones take over…I imagined that being my own child (which I cant imagine it being) I told her I called the cops and that social workers would for sure check into this…yelled at her letting her know that we have A LOT of sexual predators in our neighborhood and she is lucky I picked him up and not one of them..and lucky I didn’t run him over (which would of no lie killed me!) Well she goes inside because I said I had to go before I strangled her…well I wait for the cops to come to make sure he does belong there…I call them back and let them know the address he went into…and then I’ll be damned he comes crawling out an open window butted up against the main drag….so I go running out of the car again! Risking my own life…and grab him…walk back to the window and put him inside…as I lift the blinds I peek in…4 kids under 5 are sitting in there looking back at me…all filthy…one was a small baby (couldn’t roll over so under 9 months at least) screaming and crying naked on the bed…my heart sank…the doors were closed and they were in there with only a bed…and an open window. So I’m half in the window on the phone still with 911 and then some other child I hadn’t seen comes in the room…maybe 7-8…finally the cops come...thank god because I was losing my mind…that was the worst thing I have ever seen…a baby in the street and unattended young children…crying...dirty and unsafe all together…I hope to god and everything else that someone does something…this obviously isn’t the first time something like this has happened….and I hope that family knows that I will be watching there every move….so I’m going to go and hug my own baby right now…and know that I am at least a better parent then some.

Wow. Just, wow. Im so sorry you had to see this and Im even more sorry that this thing actually exsists in this world.


Wow.

Wow that's really scary.. that baby sure is lucky he didn't get hurt! I hope the social workers will be able to do something for them..

Holy crap, that is just so horrific. It is so sad that people who can not even afford to clothe and feed themselves are cranking out child after child.. so so sad. :( I am very glad that things did not end tragically there; you're just an innocent woman driving down the road, and something like this happens..
I would call Child Protective Service; they have an obligation to investigate things like this, and every so often i see "houses of squalor" on the news because someone called and complained.. then it would take some of the mental burden off of you I would think, and ensure that someone with government power did something.. sadly, even if the kids ended up in foster care, how much worse could it get for them?

That is horrible!!! If the police came they will probably get the child protective services out there themselves, wouldn't they?
It reminds me of what happened when I lived in Cicero. The people next door had to many kids to count, and the youngest was about 2 years old. Well as some kids do, this little one screamed all of the time.
One morning I was in my basement doing my laundry, and the police knocked on my door. They wanted to know if I heard a child screaming, well, of course I did. I heard it every day.
Turns out that the parents were "busy" in the bedroom, and one of the father's friends got mad at the little one because she spilled his beer, so he took off his belt, dangled her by one arm and was beating her!!!!!! The people across the street saw it and called the police. I was horrified!!!! Before the police could do much of anything, (they did at least arrest the guy who was beating the little gir) they vanished overnight. I don't think they were in the country legally. It has always and still does bother me that those people have children. And they ran so they went somewhere else where they could continue to neglect those poor kids.

That. Hurts.

Just...wow. -Bites bottom lip.-

Times like these I almost wish you had to be licensed to have kids... I really don't know what to say to this Aud, but I feel you handled it very well and hope the mental burden just reinforces how much you care for your own little girl. She's lucky to have such a caring mother.

Maybe you were put there for a reason!! A kind spirit was leading you to help them. :sunny: LOADS of good karma to you.........

jeez... feel so bad for those kids. and what's even sadder, if statistics are right, those kids will turn out like their parents. it's so lucky that it was you that almost hit that kid and not somebody else who would just keep on driving! and i do believe that the cops are obligated to call CPS in these circumstances, thank god! still, horrible to see!

that's horrible, and hit's too close to home.

Not with the number of kids, but my sister has 3, and my mother and me raised them because she wasn't a much better mother than those childrens

yeah, i took care of my little brother and sister ALOT when i was probably too young.... but i completely went against statistics and live my life about exactly opposite as my parents did! lol. they weren't so bad but there's a time to have fun and a time to be responsible... oh well.

Thank goodness you intervened. Now hon make sure and insist on a statement being filed about what you saw and did with the Social Services people (and with the police department as well). Sometimes they are overworked and occasionally uncaring but the community has to stand up for these kids and make sure that the right thing is done for them.

Yeah I pulled up the page on the CPS in my area and have to print out a form and fax it to them...And yeah sadly both the cops and CPS are over worked...but I will atleast call and make sure for one they got the report and 2 someone is doing something about it...it was nuts...It's one of those things you know sadly happens in this world...but its another to see it first hand...as a parent and know you cant do a thing about it other then let the officials know...so who knows...and yes I agree that there are no accidents and coincidences in this world...for some reason I was there at that time, lets hope it was for a good reason. It's still mind blowing and I cant stop thinking about it..I drive past that house every day...I'll for sure now keep my eyes on it...