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At 1145 am my cell went off. It was a BPD officer who had just got done paying Nickolas a visit. It seems that someone decided to call CPS. This annonymous caller said that he has been running all over the neighborhood unsupervised all summer, that he is filthy (and living in filth), that he had no food, that the house was so dirty there were rats ****ting all over the house, that there was no running water and that the electriciy was turned off.
The cop showed up, Nickolas and Bladen were playing video games. Bladen's brother saw the cop at the door and went home to get their dad. Nickolas said the frist thing the cop did was look at the girls (in their cage) and say, "oh, they're pets." Nickolas then showed him that there was running water and that we had plenty of food, and that he was more than capable of feeding himself. By then Andrew was outside to talk to the cop. He told him that Nickolas spent his days with his kids and that his 13 yr old daughter is the babysitter.
The cop then called me. He told me what was going on and that in his mind Nickolas was mature enough to be alone.
I called Nick and he was heading to the boy's house for the afternoon.
Then the cop called back. After reporting his findings to the supervisor, the supervisor nixed him and said that Nick needed to be with a caregiver. Basically they wanted to see how long it took me to get home and then if I had somewhere to take him. Not a problem. I was there within 10 minutes and took him to The Old People's, and that is where he will be tomorrow too.
Grrrr!! It just sucks not knowing who called. We have a verrrrry good idea of a couple of people (kids) who could have done this. I know it wasn't a neighbor. whoever did it knew enough about us to know about the rats, but not enough to know that I have only been working for a week.
Luckily it is only a short term temp position and I will be home again next week. Unluckily, I now have to prepare for a CPS followup to happen within the next 10 days.
Mean people suck.
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