A Little Girl Appeared Alone In Her Driveway, So She Let Her Come Inside, Only To Find Out The Girl Was Reported As A Runaway
A 22-year-old woman essentially lives by herself, since her dad is gone for work close to a month at a time.
In between work trips, her dad only spends several days at their home before heading off again.
Yesterday evening, right as the sun was going down, this young woman was home alone when she spotted a little girl walking down the street before appearing in her driveway.
She found it strange that the little girl only had on shorts and a sports bra, especially since it was very cold out. The little girl also had no shoes on her feet.
She went right outside and asked the little girl if she was alright.
“…She said she got kicked out of her house and that she was 11-years-old,” she explained. “I told her to come inside where it was warm and started trying to figure out what to do.”
“She told me that she got in an argument with her older (16) sister and that her sister grabbed her by the hair and threw her out the front door and told her to go away.”
“But she asked me over and over again not to call the police. She said her mom was yelling at her and taking her sister’s side.”
The little girl did call her 24-year-old brother while she was at his house, but her brother couldn’t be bothered to pick her up or care about the situation.
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This young woman also learned that the little girl’s dad was out of the picture and had not been in her life for multiple years, so that wasn’t an option for someone to come get her.
So, the little girl called her uncle next and her uncle agreed to drive to his house to pick her up. The problem is, her uncle was a couple of hours away, and could not get there until the next morning.
“I spoke to the uncle in English (they spoke in another language when they were talking, not sure what it was) and he asked me if she could stay with me tonight and he would get her in the morning,” she said.
“So I made her dinner and let her sleep on my couch.”
She then went to bed, and when she woke up, she noticed a local Facebook group was flooded with posts about a little 11-year-old girl that ran away from home.
“People were posting that cops were driving around all night with search lights on and someone said they were in the woods with dogs,” she continued.
Thoroughly freaked out, she picked up her phone and called the little girl’s uncle, who said it was just a couple of miles away.
Her uncle asked her to drive the little girl to a local gas station so he could get her there, and she said she would do that.
So, she got in her car, took the little girl to the gas station, and re-united her with her uncle. When the little girl saw her uncle, she greeted him with an enormous hug.
Then, her uncle thanked this young woman for caring for the little girl, before heading off. She basically went home and sobbed for how sad this little girl’s life is after the drop off.
She’s not sure if it was wrong of her to handle things the way that she did though.
On one hand, the little girl begged her not to bring her back to her house because she mentioned she did not feel like she was safe.
On the other hand, the little girl also insisted that she did not want her calling the police and getting the authorities involved.
She doesn’t believe anyone has a clue the little girl was at her home, but she noticed people on Facebook commenting that they witnessed the little girl walking along the street the other evening.
She really was just trying to help a little girl in need, who clearly had been in an abusive situation.
How would you feel in this situation?
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