I feel so depressed and powerless to help the children next door...
This will be long I'm afraid...
On Tues morning I was woken up by the sound of a child crying at 1.20am. I looked out of the window and there was a tiny child in PJ's, bare-footed on the street ioutside her house in the pouring rain. I ran out of the house and was crying, shivering and very distressed. I rang the doorbell several times and there was no answer. I didn't know her but knew she lived there so i went around the back of the house with her. The french door was wide open and I put her in the house to keep her warm and shouted for about frive minutes. Again, no-oned came and I could hear anouther child crying and roaming around upstairs. I calmed the girl down and told her to go back to bed "whilst I finf out where mummy is". I regret this deeply now and I should of just taken her with me but I was worried that I would be accused of abucting her or something. I closed the door, ran back home and my partner kept vigal on the house incase she came out again whilst I phoned the police. The police bashed on the door for ages but eventually rows the mother by going into her bedroom. They told me that she forgot to lock her backdoor and the girl was soundly asleep in bed.
The next morning, I see the girl and her younger sister, the girl in her PJ's the younger in just a nappy in the pouring rain and cold. I saw a neighbour taking them into her house. Apparently she had found the on the street and no-one was answering the doorbell. I am aware that the letting agency has had complaints about lots of 'comings and goings's and when they investiaged found at the kids were being cared for by a 17 year old boy and were very concerned about the house being kept suitably for children. nighbours have seen the girls come out of a car really crying that had four teenage lads in and no mum. This afternoon the teenage lads and mum were on the park, drinking from a big keg of beer and chain smoking while the girls played on.
ANything could of happened to those girls on both occaisions they were out on the street, freezing cold and scared and no-one new and mum was so disconected from whatever was going on the even hear.
What's happening to those little girls now? I'm so concerned and there should be someone there, now, unravelling the situation and making it safe. They are apprently moving soon because she is having another baby and eligable for a larger house. What will happend then. I know this shit happens but to see it so close and to actually hold a confused, shivering child in your arms, in the darkness in the early hours of the morning...it makes me want to cry. How can you fix this?