04/17/2013 10-11 by CAD

There are certain days that start out good and get progressivle bad. Today was one of those days.

We get a call for a 4 year old girl running in the street naked. This was very close to a major roadway which at the time of the call is very congested with traffic at 45MPH. I have run radar on this raod and have at several times stopped people for doing 70MPH so it can get hairy.
Well we get there and sure enough there is a little girl naked on the side street. The person who called it in had provided a small towel to cover her up. This girl is dirty and it appeared that her hair hasn't been combed in a while. She is unable to tell us where she lives and wants to just keep on walking up and down the street. After about 5 minutes I get lucky when I knock on a door and a woman answers and I ask her, pointing to the little girl on the street if that is her daughter. Oh when she opened the door I was greeted with the smell of what I can only describe as one of the most horrible smells, other than a badly decomp, I have ever come across. The woman looks at the girl and says Oh my God that my daughter. I ask her if she knew that she was out here and she told me she is Autistic and has a habit of getting out. Well we get the girl back into the house and the mom explains to us that she has tried to secure the house as best as that could with locks and chains but this little girl, who happened to be 7 years old not 4 as it was originally reported, keeps figuring out how to defeat the locks. The mom lives there with her father and her 4 kids ranging in age form 3 years to 12 and when we ask why aren't they in school she tells me they are home schooled. We all of this doesn't add up so the log unit checks the interior of the house and determines that it is unfit to live in so he calls CPS (Child Pretection Services). At this point I cleared up and went back in service but I learned later that CPS responded and removed all 4 kids from the house and gave the mom 7 days to clean up the house so it is liveable.

Now I have kids so calls for kids always gets my adreniline up so about 10 minutes after I clear up I get a call for a 15 month old playing in the street on the other side of my sector. It seems like a lady driving on a street saw a child playing in the street and did not see an adult around so she call 911. I get there and as I'm turning onto the street I meet the caller who told me she had recall 911 and cancled the call because the childs mom came out of a house and took the child in. I asked her the address and she said" its ok the mom came out and got him" at which point I said "no its not ok I need to speak with her". Well I get there and the mom is outside watering plants and I ask her if her child was outside without supervision and she says "yea it was only for a second" and I explained that I talked to the caller and it was definitely not a second and asked if she frequently lets the child, who is only 15 months old, to play outside without her there. She says "no he must have sneaked outside" Well I told her that it's not a smart idea to not know where your child is. She seems a little upset that I said that but screw her, it could have ended a whole lot different. There was no need for any further action on my partand I think she got the message that I was a little pissed off.

The rest of the day was better with nothing other than BS calls.
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