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Calling the police to check on a crying baby

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summermumma2021 · 27/06/2026 00:08

Just had to call the police to check on a new neighbours baby. What would
you have done in this situation?
New neighbours live down our road around 100m away from us and could hear loud very distressed crying for over half an hour.

It sounded like a newborn or young baby crying and so I assumed they’d settle or some attempt to comfort them would be made but the crying stayed at the same level for ther period time. I could also hear raised voices and car doors slamming and I asked my husband if he’d heard it too (he was downstairs) and he said yeah he was worried as well.

Anyway in hoping it was nothing and the little one is fine but it just didn’t sit right and it sounded like no attempt to comfort them was being made at all.

i have no idea who the new neighbours are as it’s quite far from our bit of the road but for it to be that loud from this distance didn’t seem right. I have also had three colicky babies so I do know babies can cry for periods of time but as I said it sounded like no attempt to help them was being made.

Anyway police treating it as a priority case and checking things out. Just wanted to share really as worried.

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Canonlythinkofthisone · 27/06/2026 00:23

ShetlandishMum · 27/06/2026 00:18

Why didn't you go and offered your help? To see if things were a police matter?
Children do cry a lot. We have three and tbh you would most likely have called the police more than once on us for no good reason.

Because other adults should and must look out for children. Has recent news taught you nothing at all?

WolfinSheepsDress · 27/06/2026 00:22

Op of course you have done the right thing . Who knows what's going on and if it's innocent whilst police presence may feel horrible it will go if all ok

summermumma2021 · 27/06/2026 00:21

ShetlandishMum · 27/06/2026 00:18

Why didn't you go and offered your help? To see if things were a police matter?
Children do cry a lot. We have three and tbh you would most likely have called the police more than once on us for no good reason.

Don’t know them and my own three children are asleep in the house so I can’t go for a walk down the road to intervene in a domestic dispute.

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summermumma2021 · 27/06/2026 00:20

Decacaffeinatednow · 27/06/2026 00:17

You have done the right thing.

Thank you.

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ShetlandishMum · 27/06/2026 00:18

Why didn't you go and offered your help? To see if things were a police matter?
Children do cry a lot. We have three and tbh you would most likely have called the police more than once on us for no good reason.

Decacaffeinatednow · 27/06/2026 00:17

You have done the right thing.

summermumma2021 · 27/06/2026 00:16

TeaAndMadeiraCake · 27/06/2026 00:11

It could just be the baby has colic or something, but if your gut is uneasy, it's probably best to report it. A one off I probably wouldn't have but something obviously didn't sit right for you, so maybe better safe than sorry. I wasn't there after all and you were.

Thank you, yeah it was the intensity of the cry really that just didn’t sit right and the fact we live quite a distance and it was still that loud.

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TeaAndMadeiraCake · 27/06/2026 00:11

It could just be the baby has colic or something, but if your gut is uneasy, it's probably best to report it. A one off I probably wouldn't have but something obviously didn't sit right for you, so maybe better safe than sorry. I wasn't there after all and you were.