just rang the police WIBU?

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Been watching a film with DP and for the last hour have heard people arguing a few doors down. Didn't pay much attention as people are always arguing around here.
Film finished , turned TV off to go to bed and realised one of the arguing voices belonged to a young child. Prob about 6?
Just two voices, the child and the adult, possibly the mum? The mums calling the kid a fucking count and screaming at them to shut up. Kid is crying. Its not stopping. I called the police.

Feel so so sorry for that kid

Cunt

You did the right thing.
Nobody should be shouting that kind of abuse at a young child.

Better safe than sorry.
Nobody should be talking to their young child like that anyway.

Oops sorry, I ment the mum is calling the kid a fucking cunt etc

if it doubt i would always ring 999, if this mum is struggling then maybe the police being inolved will spur her on the get help and support

you definitely did the right thing

YADNBU.

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I would have called the police too.

YANBU

I think the duty SS would have been better,

YADNBU. It's awful to have to do something like this (I had to do similar a few weeks ago) but you absolutely did the right thing. Hope you're okay

rainy - the police will sort that out.
I doubt many people have access to the number for their local duty ss - I certainly dont!

You did the right thing, the family may be known to services and this will stop any wrong doing from being covered up.

One time my department had got a phone call to report that the night before two women, one a resident in the street (and known to us) had been fighting whilst holding young children. One woman went back into her house and the other woman stayed banging on the door until the woman came out of her house with a knife in her hand. The woman picked up her child again, that she had put downon the pavement, to use as a shield, whilst being lunged at.

This went on for an hour and a half at 3am and no-one phoned the police, so we couldn't act.

If there are children involved, always report.

"I think the duty SS would have been better,"

The police should always respond if they are told that there are children. They will implement a Police Protection Order, if there is immediate danger to the child. Otherwise will refer to SS, anyway.

If the duty teamis called with a report of a violent/aggressive adult, they will usually have the police attend, also.

YANBU - it's not down to you to ring around and find out who the duty SS is, etc. That is the police's job, if they deem it necessary.

You did the right thing.

The police have only just turned up. The arguing stopped about 10 mins ago.

The police stopped outside, sat there for 3 mins then drove off! I feel furious. They didn't even leave their police car.

I keep thinking of that poor poor child. Probably laid in bed now feeling that horrible feeling when you have cried for hours, prob scared. What a horrible thing to happen to a kid.

I'm not 100% sure which house it was and I really want to help this child. I'm not talking about going round there because there are some questionable people around here and I do my very beat to avoid them.

But if I could find out who it is I bet they go to DDs school and maybe I could find out a name.

Can't sleep now, just feel so utterly sad for that child. Could hear in their screams they were terrified.

oh no, that's terrible.

Don't know what else to say, couldn't just leave your post unanswered.

I don't understand. Is it because they didn't know which address and the screaming had stopped?

Poor kid.

That's awful. Could you put a complaint in to the police? At the very least they should have knocked on the door and spoken to them.

poor child :(

How do you know they wont contact SS in the morning?

I gave them 3 house numbers as wasn't sure which one. I know they can't go banging on everyone's doors, but they didn't even wind car windows down.

Guess they wouldn't have heard anything anyway.

I still want to help if I can, that women clearly needs some help and so does the child.

Try to find out the address, by a process of elimination, even if you make a phome call in a few days, it wil lbe noted and could help to build a picture.

With my family the mother made excuse after excuse as to why there was non school attendence, but the neighbours reporting helped us to confront her with our suspicions/the truth.

The police have to log every attendence, so your call has helped, as they will go through the electoral register to try to match a child with the report.

I suspect that it's because they didn't know exactly which house it was and didn't want to be knocking on more than one door at 1am.
When my sister's next door neighbour called the police on her for the screaming row she was having, they came and knocked on the door all right to check up on everyone. My sister was mortified but I think it's good that the neighbours did call, because it apparently sounded like someone was being hurt. (They weren't, not physically anyway)

OP, you did the right thing and I hope the police check into it in the morning.

Really birds? that's great advice, thank you. Feel a bit calmer now. Its disturbing listening to something like that.