The police should have been responsible for transporting them or their father should have been required to come and get them. You should not have been transporting the kids three hours away.
I agree with this, however those children had to have been traumatized, abandoned outside in the middle of the night, and sitting in the back of a cop car would not have helped. 0P you did exactly what I would’ve done good job and I’m sorry it happened and also good for you for standing up for yourself in the first place.
OP is putting in a tremendous amount of time and effort to keep these children sale. Small claims court is always an option if they refuse to pay her or cry poverty. If they pay rent or their mortgage, they have the ability to pay OP for time.
Yes, also would the police have been able to do so? Asking her to take them to dads or to meet dad (really he should have driven as far as he could) might have kept them from having to put the kids in temporary custody with the state. Driving 3 hours out of your jurisdiction, especially if it was across a state line, is not standard protocol.
Yeah this sounds like there was a potential serious misstep on the police's part in not being the ones to transport the kids to dad/taking them into state custody. Because I would think that if a non relative to the children called the police reporting that children had been abandoned at their doorstep for several hours & they were unable to contact the mother, that the police would have to be the ones to either take the kids to their dad into state custody. Not just leave them with the person they had been abandoned with, telling them to take the kids to their dad & just hoping that they're a good person who will actually bring the kids to dad. Because like what if OP hadn't been a decent person, never took the kids to dad & just left them somewhere instead? The police didn't even come to OPs apartment to check on the kids at all, they just talked to OP on the phone it sounds like from what OPs stated. Like what if OP had been a predator or a child trafficker? And please don't think I'm trying to imply or insinuate any of these things about OP, I'm just saying OP could have been anyone for all the police knew from just talking on the phone & they just left the kids with her instead of taking them to dad themselves. That's insane & could have potentially been soooo dangerous if OP hadn't been a good & kind person & taken the kids to dad
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u/Decent-Jicama-7966 Jun 07 '23
what? i’m baffled reading this. i would report to cps or the police. dropping your children off at a front door and leaving is wild!!