It's All My Husband's Fault

  The first one was from February.  The Ex and Boyfriend had been living together for not quite seven months; she was four months pregnant with their daughter.  According to the call log, The Ex called the police and told dispatch that Boyfriend was drunk and called her several times; Boyfriend said if The Ex came home and parked behind his car, he would run it over.  Boyfriend was already talking to officers at their address.  The Ex called back about 15 minutes later and was told an officer would be sent when one was available.  Five minutes later, Boyfriend agreed to stop calling The Ex and would stay at his sister's house; Boyfriend's sister showed up and agreed to watch over him because he was drunk.  ( This happened on a Thursday night.  It wasn't even the weekend ) ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   The next report was from June and involved a bar; The Ex was also in this report, despite being 8 months pregnant.  Around ...

  Along with the report from 2006, we got a report from 2007.  Some underage kids had been busted with some of his friends smoking cigarettes.  One of them was The Ex's brother, who was 15 at the time.   One of the kids was interviewed and at some point, their mother ended up on the phone with the officer.  The mother said two of the kids were headed to The Ex's house to babysit for Son and Daughter while The Ex and someone else ( I'm assuming it was The Ex's cousin ) went to New City. ( The Ex had been dating Boyfriend for about 2 months now )  The officer then talked to the kid again; the kid said they were supposed to go to The Ex's apartment and babysit so that The Ex and her cousin ( Again, I'm assuming ) could go out with their boyfriends.  The officer said he knew The Ex had two young children ( They were 6 and 4 at the time of this report ) and he was surprised by how much he heard of The Ex leaving her kids with family members so she can go ...

  Unknown to us, there were lots of things going on in The Ex's house.  She always had a problem with Husband and/or me, but we assumed it was just sour grapes.  Not getting along with your ex-spouse doesn't necessarily make a bad parent ( Unless you're trying to turn the kids against the other person.  Then you suck as a parent )  We knew small things here and there - The Ex missed the kids' practices and/or games; The Ex would leave the kids with her parents for days while she was out with Boyfriend; The Ex was having her teen brother babysit since he dropped out of school and wasn't doing anything.  But it wasn't until after Husband had gotten the temporary order giving him physical custody of the kids that we realized just what a terrible parent The Ex had been.   Since the case was still ongoing, we sent a request to the Hometown Police asking for copies of any cases involving The Ex.  We got copies of two reports; one we had heard about,...