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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe you freaks who are more outraged by a "busybody" than by the so-called mother who thinks locking a 10yo out of the house late at night without a coat or warm clothes. Talk about messed-up priorities. No one knows why the neighbor called the police - maybe she tried knocking first. Maybe she knew the mother was drunk or unstable. Maybe it was a neighbor a few doors down who had small kids of her own and didn't have a better way to intervene safely.

Personally, I wouldn't knock on my neighbors' door at 10 or 11pm unless I knew them very well; and if I was uncertain about how to handle an apparent domestic disturbance, damn straight I'd call the police without thinking twice.

No one should be criticized for calling the police to alert them to a potentially unsafe situation with a young kid. Ever. [/quote]

What neighborhood did this happen in? If I heard a kid outside crying, i would not assume it was a domestic disturbance. I would assume the kid was being punished. We live in a neighborhood filled with kids, and you can hear kids crying all the way from the next street over. It feels terrible to hear, and sometimes I look outside just to make sure everything is okay, but the obvious assumption is that they have gotten hurt or are being punished -- which as we all know, happens in every family.[/quote]

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