She Called The Police And Reported The Couple She Was Babysitting For As Missing When She Didn’t Hear From Them
On Sunday evening, this 23-year-old girl was asked to babysit for a couple so they could attend a wedding as a date night.
She agreed to watch their two kids, a 13-week-old little boy and a 2-year-old little girl, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., and this wasn’t her first time watching them.
The night went well on her end, and she tucked both kids into bed at 7:30, then picked up the house as the kids slept.
At 10:15 that night, the couple texted her asking if she could stay longer, until midnight, and she said that was no problem at all.
15 minutes after midnight, she hadn’t heard from the couple, so she texted them to see if they were close, yet they never responded.
“I can be pretty anxious, so my mind started thinking they got into an accident or something bad happened,” she explained.
“I didn’t hear from them after 5 minutes and then decided to call, but got no answer. 1 a.m. rolls around, and the baby has already woken up to feed again, and I’m just overly anxious at this point. It’s 1 a.m., and I have no one to call to calm me down.”
“I would never assume that a late parent is just a late parent at 1 a.m. So I am just on our city’s Twitter page, where they’ll let you know road conditions and accidents, seeing if something happened within the last hour and a half but nothing.”
By 2 a.m., she had called the couple 15 times to check in, but they still were not responding to her.
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She thought about calling the police, but she knew that would wake up the kids, and she didn’t want them removed from the house either in those early morning hours.
So, she desperately hoped that the couple would come home at any moment, and while she was mad at them for failing to communicate, she wanted them to be ok.
They never came home, though, so she called the police at 5 a.m. to report the couple as missing. She informed the police she could no longer continue watching the kids at this rate.
22 minutes after she called, the police came to the couple’s house to take her statement. They asked her for the couple’s phone numbers, and they also wanted to see if she could stay with the kids a bit more while they figured out what their next steps should be.
When the police showed up, the neighbors of the couple began to gather outside, and one of them mentioned she could watch the kids. Since she didn’t know this woman at all, she declined and said she would keep staying with the kids. By 5:48 a.m., the couple showed up, and the police were still there.
“The mom ran into the house, thinking something had happened to the kids, and sighed when she saw they were there,” she said.
“Our phones died, and we didn’t know how to get home from the venue,” is what she said to me, and I was fuming! I called them irresponsible and the [worst] parents I’ve ever worked for. I demanded she pay me on the spot, and I left.”
“I got a super long message about how this is my job, and I’m a huge [jerk] for disrespecting them and calling the police. She felt like I could’ve left them with the neighbors or called the emergency contacts, not the police.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to call the police to report the couple as missing after she went hours without any communication from them.
What do you think?
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