Bad Mothers and Bad Neighbors

Words cannot describe how much I detest my neighbor that I have, along w/ others on our street, have dubbed the White Trash lady/house. She is cosntantly dragging her 2 youngest children in the house while they are screaming and she is constantly screaming at them so loud that we can hear it. It's just horrible and trashy. She's a single mother (and nothing against single parents) and has 4 children with 3 different men and she doesn't even have custody of her oldest son and just got her next to oldest back.

I have made it clear that Mackenzie is not suppose to knock on their door and ask her kids to play b/c the girl just turned 4 and the little boy just turned 2. They are not age appropriate for playing. She has done very well and doesn't go over there. Well yesterday I was inside and Mackenzie's friend Olivia came in the house and said that Mackenzie wanted me. I go over there and find out that the little girl and boy are in the yard and street playing and the little girl says that her mommy isn't home (and her car was gone) and they were left by themselves. The front door is opening and there isnt' a soul around. I ask her again and she says that her mommy got mad b/c Dean (the 2 year old) spilled chocolate milk and then her mommy left.

Now this is coming from a 4 year old and I understand that they don't always say things that happen or quite factually. But it is clear by me yelling into the house that no one is home. So I called the sherrif's office. I didn't know what else to do. I mean these kids are running around outside unsupervised and are only 4 and 2. The sherrifs come and talk to the little girl and she confirms to them what she said to me. They go in the house and don't find anyone but come back and ask the little girl what who's bedrooms are whose. Apparently 2 of the bedroom doors are locked. She says that one of the doors belongs to her 16 year old brother.

The sherrifs go back in and beat on the door and the no one answers it so they unlock the door, not sure how but they did. Guess what they find? The 16 year old boy who has long hit pink hair and a Godsmack shirt on. They talk to him for a bit inside and then come out. The sherrif is asking him if he knows where his mom is, he says no, they ask do you know how to reach her, he says no, they ask do you know where she might have gone, he says no, then they finally ask if she has a cell phone and the boys says yes. The sherrif exclaims "finally, we're getting somewhere". The boy was so rude and disrespectful. Okay, so I was wrong, there was someone home, but there wasn't anyone supervising the kids. The boy was upstairs in a locked room and didn't even answer the sherrif much less his little brother and sister.

The sherrifs tell him that the little sister told them that they were home by themselves. The brother gave her the evilest look I've ever seen. I am so scared about what he may have done to the kids. The sherrifs couldn't do anything b/c there was a 16 year old at home. They had him call his mom, etc. and after that I don't know what happened.

So last night I go over to her house so I could tell her that I was the one that called and why I did what I did. So she could get the entire story. She was so rude and such a bitch to me. She barely opened the door and just kept saying over me, "i knew it was you who called, i knew it was you". I told her it's b/c the little girl was crying outside that she wanted her mommy and that no one was at home. I also found out later Kenzie had gone inside to see if anyone was there and even she hadn't found anyone. I told a small fib and told her that I had knocked on her door and rang the doorbell b/c she went off on me about not trying hard enough to find out who was there. Which trust me, if it took the sherrifs breaking into his room then me knocking wouldn't have done anything.

I told her that I didn't know what to do but her kids were running around outside and in the street and they kept crying and saying they were home alone. I did what I thought was best, especially as a parent. She kept making smartass remarks and I can tell she hates me. You know I did what was the best thing to do. I would hope if my kids were in that situation that someone would call someone for me (although I'd never ever do that). She said she was going to deal w/ her oldest son but heck, he even admitted to the sherrifs that he didn't know she had left.

I did what I thought was right and I do stand by what I did. I just hate that she's such a lowlife white trash lady that she doesn't care enough about her kids to make sure they are taken care of. Oh yeah and she made a comment about "well if the 6 and 7 year olds didn't come knocking on my door to play w/ my 4 year old when they wouldn't even watch over her then she wouldn't go outside". I realized later she was accussing Kenzie and olivia of knocking on her door to entice the kids out. I can assure you that this is not the case. I grilled Kenzie and she said she didn't go over there and she is always honest w/ me and on top of that Kenzie only goes to see if her friends can play that are home and if the girls mom's car was gone why would she do it in the first place?

I'm so frustrated! I'm stuck living by this lady who hates my guts. I'm sorry I made her mad. I really am but I was just looking out for her kids.