About a decade ago I made several reports to social services and the police about my concerns about a little girl who lived next door to me. I had a male neighbour who I barely saw, just glimpses of him in the kitchen when I was in my kitchen washing up as my window looks out into the back yard of the house next door.Both are end terraces. House was a bit scruffy, lots of rubbish in the overgrown yard and to the best of my knowledge he lived there alone. He was quite unpleasant, another neighbour had a word with him about the rubbish and got a mouthful for their trouble. His overflow pipe was broken and the water was coming into my back yard and because it was winter it was freezing over so I went and knocked on his door to tell him. Imagine my shock when he answered the door holding a very young baby in his arms! I had never seen a woman pregnant or otherwise enter or leave the house. I am not a nosy neighbour but its a small street with the houses packed close together so you do notice comings and goings. I mentioned the overflow, he said he would attend to it, I asked after the baby (said it was his second but that child lived with its mother) and it was a girl and he told me the name. As time went by I never saw a female in the house, never saw anyone leave taking the baby out for a walk, never noticed any visitors. Then one evening I was washing up and looked across to the house and saw a female in their kitchen. She was wearing a towelling robe with the hood pulled up to conceal her face. I would occasionally glimpse her after this first sighting, always in the evening, always wearing the robe and always with her face hidden by the hood. The little girl grew bigger and I would see her looking out of the back room window when I was doing my garden and I would smile and wave. She would wave and smile back. One day her dad saw her waving at me, yanked her back from the window and pulled the blind closed. This was the first time I contacted Social Services. The whole thing just felt "off" to me. Phoned then again when I saw her looking out of an upstairs window in the afternoon dressed only in sleeveless body suit during the winter. When this happened again I phoned the police who did a "safe and well check" and told me that there were "no concerns" They moved out in the end, that was the only time I saw the woman who I presume was the mother, getting into a van which was driven by an older woman. The person who bought the house had to get professional cleaners in, I spoke to them and they said it was horrendous, mess and rubbish everywhere and the cellar filled to the brim with soft toys. They said the only room which was clean was the bathroom which was completely spotless. For some reason this felt really disturbing. I feel that I did the right thing in reporting them, others may disagree and just think I was being nosey and judging a family by my own standards. However I will never forget that little girl. I