Salem, Mass. mother calls 911 on her own children

SALEM, MA — Operator, “911 what’s your emergency?”

“Hi, I have two teenaged children who will not stop beating each other up…”

That was a mother of five in Salem Massachusetts who called 911 … on her kids.

“I’m scared it’s not gonna stop,” she tells the 911 dispatcher.

According to police, the 41-year-old single mom told officers who rushed to her house she was sick of the kids fighting and wanted police to arrest them.

The dispatcher asks, “Any weapons or anything?” She hesitates, “Well, ummm, there’s things I guess that could be used as weapons, they’re throwing things at each other, toys, games.

The family lives in an apartment in a house on Lafayette Street. Police say Monday, the mom went out to run errands leaving her kids aged 16 down to two alone. Apparently, her 14-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter started bickering and the boy punched his little sister in the arm. The 16-year-old daughter stepped in to defend the little one and mom walked in on the scuffle. She called the cops and and now her son has been summoned to court to answer charges of domestic assault and battery.

We asked Salem Police Lt. Conrad Prosniewski if anyone needed medical attention. He said, “No, it didn’t rise to that level.”

Asked if he thought mom calling 911 was overkill, Prosniewski again said no. “There was an assault, a physical assault that occurred, he said. “Our job as police officers is to help anyone who needs help when things get out of control.”

No one was home when we knocked, but neighbors had plenty to say.

Said Tabitha Arsenault, “To have your kids arrested is something personally, I know my mom would never do to me.”

She lives below the family and said there is often fighting — that something’s gotta give. “It’s very frustrating as a neighbor, very frustrating,” she said.

Read the story here.

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