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But midnight came and went, and the couple did not arrive home as promised. “I sent a text asking if they’re close and didn’t get a response,” she continued, explaining that she began to grow a bit concerned at that point.
“I can be pretty anxious, so my mind started thinking they got into an accident or something bad happened.”
“2 a.m. rolls around, and I kid you not, I have called around 15 times and received no answer from either parent,” the OP continued.
As dawn neared around 5 a.m., she finally decided to call the police and report the parents missing. “I told them I couldn’t keep [the kids] after having them all night,” she recalled. “The police showed up at 5:22 a.m. and took a statement from me.”
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Just before 6 a.m., however, the parentsfinallyshowed up.
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“You actually did the right and safest thing,” one person wrote. “Also it’s 2024, who in this day and age doesn’t have either a portable charger or car phone charger? They are parents. They should have been prepared for their phone dying.”
They added, “Wipe your hands of them. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Quite a few commenters even suggested that the parents' wedding night story seemed “fishy.”
Yet another Redditor commented, “They decided to have a date night and find a hotel. Then went to sleep — an uninterrupted sleep was a bonus with a newborn.”
source: people.com
