advice.

[Poppetfish]

There is a house across the road from my house where there is a prostitute who deals drugs. She has 5 kids in her house. The kids get so hungry that they door knock for food and the youngest 2 didn't own shoes until i bought them some. I have called DOCS a few times and i have been told that if they get taken away, the kids will all be split up.

I am scared of the mums boyfriend. When i gave the kids shoes, he came over and threatened me with a cricket bat. They would know it was me who complained. I have my own kids to worry about.

What should i do?:confused:

[SuperGranny]

Hi, I would maybe contact the local charity people . lifeline or salvation army? that sort of group. If they can investgate the situation, and then also contact DOCS, noone would know it came from you. I would hate to be in your situation, but I think you have to do something , for the sake of the children, even if they get split up, surely that will be still better then starving for food, and going with out shoes. marie.

[c2p08]

thats really a sad situation, i was in one very similar when i was pregnant with my DD, the neighbours were quite nasty and even got to the point of threatenin to kill their own kids one night, i ended up calling docs and the police and they knew it was me, they came over drunk one night tryin to threatenin to kill me etc, and that they were going to kill my baby, we moved away from them, and docs got involved, the kids unfortunatly are still with the mother, but docs is keeping an eye on them now. i had my litle sister going out with one of the kids, who was 18 at the time, and she and the guy got the mother to back of slightly too. sorry i dont know what you can do!

[mumof2brats]

Well,
that is a terrible situation for the children to go door knocking for food:no:.i am happy that you got them shoes and its pretty sad that the father took it the wrong way and threatened you for doing something good for the children.

if i was in your situation i would not do any more as you have said that doc have already been notified so i would leave it at that,for the safety of your family as you have said you think they know that you complained.

even though it probably breaks you heart to see the children in this situation,hopefully someone else out there has taken notice of this situation and has notified docs to make them relies that there are children on your street that need help.

all the best

[ILOVEBRODY]

I'm sorry to hear about this situation. It both saddens and angers me that such people have children and treat them this way. I believe the children are at risk by being allowed to stay in that house, and yes, even if it means splitting them up, their safety should be of paramount importance and I would hope DOCS would realise this.

Bless you for buying them shoes and being concerned. It's never easy to get involved in such situations but I feel you have done the right thing. Are there any onther neighbours in your street you could talk to about this that would also be willing to lodge a complaint? If there is at least someone else willing to call DOCS, they might look into the situation a bit more, which I think they really should be doing. Otherwise, maybe try and call aother group such as Salvation Army to approach the family just as the previous post suggested.

Obviously the mother's boyfriend has aggressive tendencies if he's coming over and threatening you with a baseball bat. What a piece of work! I would report him to the police, as he has no right to do such a thing simply because you did a nice thing for those children. At least if you notify the police he will be known to them and they can keep an eye on him. He may already be known to them and if so, they will probably take your call more seriously.

That's all I can suggest for now. What Australia really needs is a number people can call anonymously to dob such people in so that concerned neighbours of such children are not scared to report such things, otherwise these people emmploy scare tactics and bullying to scare concerned citizens off. It's ridiculous!

All the best with this situation and I hope something gets done to help those poor children. It sounds as though the mother should stop having children because she clearly doesn't care about the ones she has. :(