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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a nightmare neighbor. Why take the child inside and immediately call police instead of walking him back home safely? [/quote]

This.

Wish we could charge the neighbor with something so this nonsense stops.[/quote]

So do both of you choose to ignore the statement that the 14 year old found the child within 10-15 minutes? So she had no idea where the child was for 10-15 minutes. That girl should not be babysitting her sibling. She is not responsible enough. And you have no idea how long the child was gone the first time the complaint was filed.

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She may have checked around the house and yard first before going to the neighbors. That could be part of the 10-15 minute time frame that they are referring to in the article.[/quote]

Kids at that age  like to hide. There have been stories of parents who panicked and called for help only to find out that the kid was still in their house when help arrived.[/quote]

My little brother LOVED to hide from everyone at this age. It was a huge problem because it was impossible to know if he was actually missing or simply huddled in a hiding spot, listening to us look for him and laughing to himself. It cause several very stressful scares that absolutely involved the neighborhood looking for him. Everyone knew he liked to run off and hide and could be hard to find.

No one EVER called the cops on our family over this, whether it was my mom at home with him or one our older siblings, which was very common -- my mom would leave us with our teenage siblings all the time so that she could do things like go to parent-teacher conferences, take a part-time shift somewhere, etc. Our neighbors would help us look for him, or let us know they'd call if they saw him. They would never have called the cops. That would have been bizarre and made what was already a frustrating situation much worse. I can remember one situation where my mom called the cops herself because we couldn't find him after a certain amount of time and she was terrified. Very different situation.

This kid was never actually missing. He was next door. What in the hell.[/quote]

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