Do you ever think to yourself sometimes…WHERE ARE THIS KID’S PARENTS?!?!

If you do, I believe that you’re going to think that this is definitely one of those times.

Check out this story from Reddit’s “Am I the *******?” page and see if you think this person did anything wrong.

AITA for calling the police on a 2 year old child running around my neighborhood unsupervised?

“Some little kid was outside playing with my boys in a suburban neighborhood, he was 2 years old couldn’t even talk yet.

Where are these kids coming from?!?!

If I had to guess, he probably had only been walking for 8 months he was that young.

He was out there with his “cousin/sister” who was only 7 (she didn’t know how she was related to him when I asked “is that your brother?”).

I have no idea who either of these children are.

Time to make a call…

I’ve seen the sister/cousin before in the neighborhood but where she lived or what her name is I couldn’t tell you.

So I called the non emergency number and told them “hey, there’s this 2 year old little boy out here without an adult and his 7 year old sister, what do you want me to do?” and the dispatcher told me to keep them there and they would send an officer out.

She asked me to stay on the phone until the officer got there and while waiting they tried to leave so I told the dispatcher that and she said she wanted me to keep them there so the officer could talk to the kids parents.

So I asked if they would stay and they did.

The officer finally showed up and right when he did our neighbor came out and was like “why did you call the police? This isn’t a police matter”

(this child is NOT my neighbor’s child, I had until tonight a good rapport with my neighbor so I knew it wasn’t theirs).

This lady sounds pretty whacko.

I was like “ma’am this boy cant even talk yet he’s so young” and she started screaming at me saying I should have taken him into my house and kept him safe.

I said “I’m not taking some 2 year old kid into my home without the parents knowing”

(i’m a 32 year old male).

She kept screaming at me saying “we take care of the kids in our neighborhood, if it was your kids I would do the same! You let them run around without you out here what if you were miles away and you found out that someone called the police on your kids.”

Which isn’t true, because my kids don’t like that I only let them outside if I’m with them.

She said Im a bad person because I’m treating it “like he’s neglected.”

She told the officer that she will handle it and started walking the boy home.

Now what?

I’m dumbfounded and embarrassed.

Like what the hell was I supposed to do just let this little kid run around the neighborhood?

The cars use our street as a drag strip cause its so straight and long and this kid couldn’t even form words he was that young.

The officer just let her leave with the boy and didn’t even go talk to the parents.

The whole neighborhood came outside to see what was happening cause this lady was screaming at me.

AITA?”

Check out what Reddit users had to say about this.

This individual asked a good question.

Another person spoke up.

This Reddit user didn’t hold back.

Another reader said they’re NTA.

And this person had a lot to say.

I think a lot of people would’ve done the same thing!

What else can you do?

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