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So? I know all about mandated reporting. What does this have to do with child abuse? Someone slurring their words over the phone is meaningless. Their children might not even be home with them at the time.
Slurred speech can be a symptom of a stroke. Whoever took the call might have been concerned about that whether or not there were children at home.
OP, do you remember speaking clearly into the phone even though you were whispering or speaking in a low tone?
Slurred speech can be a symptom of a stroke. Whoever took the call might have been concerned about that whether or not there were children at home.
OP, do you remember speaking clearly into the phone even though you were whispering or speaking in a low tone?
True but the police didn’t even make contact with the op until 5 hours after the call so if they were trluly worried that she was in imminent danger, they might have wanted to call her first to see where she was and if she was ok.
True but the police didn’t even make contact with the op until 5 hours after the call so if they were trluly worried that she was in imminent danger, they might have wanted to call her first to see where she was and if she was ok.
This is what is so revealing to me. If they were truly concerned it seems they would have called 911 right away, in fact. Rather than the police. And made that call very soon.
This is what is so revealing to me. If they were truly concerned it seems they would have called 911 right away, in fact. Rather than the police. And made that call very soon.
There you go again, reading all sorts of stuff into this. The police were called to do a welfare check, not to make an emergency visit. OP left her messages about 1 PM and the police stopped by some time that afternoon when no one was home, according to a neighbor who spoke to the police, which is more than any of us on here other than the OP have done, and then the OP encountered them at about 6 PM.
A welfare check is not the same as a 911 call, and yes, it's the police you call when you call 911. The office had concerns, hence they called for the welfare check. It would have been a lot worse for the OP if they had called CPS.
I didn't know police did welfare checks. I thought those were done by adult protective services or child protective services.
Police do welfare checks. This just doesn’t happen to be a very typical use of them.
For example, someone might call the police to do a welfare check if they can’t get a hold of someone and that person has also missed work and the person calling can’t go over and check on them themselves. Or someone might call and ask for a welfare check if they know someone might be in danger, for instance, someone threatens suicide.
In this scenario, the office didn’t even know where the op was (work? Home? Where?) yet they called the police to have them check on the op without trying to contact her first and only after hearing what they considered to be a strange voicemail message. It’s a pretty weird first course of action.
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True but the police didn’t even make contact with the op until 5 hours after the call so if they were trluly worried that she was in imminent danger, they might have wanted to call her first to see where she was and if she was ok.
According to the OP, cops did arrive at her home right away. But she was at work, so they came by in the early evening and found her at home at that time.
According to the OP, cops did arrive at her home right away. But she was at work, so they came by in the early evening and found her at home at that time.
So wouldn’t it have made more sense for the office to call the op first, and see if she was ok and then if they still had concerns ask the op where she was and then call for help?
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So wouldn’t it have made more sense for the office to call the op first, and see if she was ok and then if they still had concerns ask the op where she was and then call for help?
Well, I certainly agree with that. I think this was really odd of someone in the doc's office to take this extreme step.
Hoping the OP comes back with an update once the office manager finished figuring out what happened.
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