I can not believe this
I had to call the police today. Why is my life always so full of “experiences?” I don’t want to be the person calling the police! I want calm and peace and happiness.
There’s a teenager in the neighborhood who causes trouble. It’s kind of obvious that he’s not all there, mentally. He likes to hang around the young kids, even though he is 15. We have tons of teenagers in the neighborhood and most of them are nice to the kids and will say hi or let them have a turn kicking the ball, etc. They do not ever try to hang around the little kids. They just aren’t interested–perfectly normal.
This kid hit Erik with a metal stick a few weeks ago and also told Erik that no white people are allowed in the playground. You can guess how that went over. I had some very harsh words with the teenager.
Today I went out and he was trying to take down a real estate sign in my neighbor’s yard. We had words again and I told him he better shape up or ship out–that I was calling the police the next time he caused trouble.
I took Elsa down to the playground and a big group of kids, including this teenager were hanging around the on the porch of the house that was directly across from the park. Suddenly I hear a bunch of yelling “that’s so disgusting! You can’t do that! That’s just wrong!”
This 15 year old kid was making a four year old boy hold his juice box in front of his [4 year old’s] crotch area, and the 15 year old kid was about to take a drink from it.
I went nuts and started yelling “Stop it you pervert! Get away from him!” I went charging up to the house and banged on the door. The people inside probably thought it was an FBI raid, from the strength of banging.
The grandma of the little boy answered the door and I explained what was happening. She went bat shit crazy and the teenager is lucky he escaped without a scratch. The mom of the little boy started crying (she is also the mom of my “bonus child” so I sort of know her, but not really). There was a man in the house and he calmed the grandma down. We all made the teenager take us to his house, though he lied about where he lived. Finally he took us to his real house and the grandma started going ballistic on the lady who answered the door. We had no idea who she was or how she was related to him. It turns out she was his aunt and legal guardian. We didn’t find that out until much later.
I finally left and went home to call the non-emergency police line. I don’t know if it was my place, but we absolutely can not have a pervert running around the neighborhood.
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When I was teaching we had a mentally ill 16 year old boy rape and kill a six year old girl. She was a friend of his families and they had sent him out to babysit her at the park.
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So yeah. . .I can see something like that happening. I have children in this neighborhood. I know this incident was not a crime, but it needed to be reported and he and his family need to know this is serious. We will not stand for this kind of thing in our neighborhood.
The police sent an officer out pretty quickly and I walked him through what had happened. He thought it sounded pretty bad that a 15 year old was doing that with a four year old–not something you want happening in your neighborhood. He went down and talked to the four year old’s family and the four year old himself. He had a really wonderful manner about him and I think he must have been trained to work with kids. Several of the middle school students knew him by name and came up and talked to him. At the end, he asked me to go back to my house because he wanted to talk to the family of the teenager alone. Totally ok with me!
He talked to them for over an hour (or at least his car was parked in front of my house for over an hour). I was dying to know what was said, but was pretty sure he would not report back to me. As he was leaving the neighborhood, he pulled in and talked to my neighbor. My neighbor is a volunteer fire-fighter and knew him from that. The neighbor said the officer had a long talk with the family and let them know this is super serious. The teen has no parents and lives with an aunt and uncle. He has mental issues, which was already pretty obvious. We are supposed to call if anything else happens so they can keep an active file on this kid and get him out of here before something really terrible happens.
I’m just glad he wasn’t doing that to Erik or Elsa. I would be in jail or dead right now if I caught a teenager doing that to either of my kids. I know I would go straight up ballistic and . . . well. . .honestly I don’t know. Just the thought makes me so angry that I start shaking. I’m just so happy that I saw it happen. Who knows what that boy has been doing or might do in the future? Now we know to keep a close eye on him and our children.