Unbelievable

About ten years ago my daughter walked in on my house being robbed. Thank God she realized what was happening before she closed the door and came face to face with the intruder. She saw the back of someone in the kitchen and quietly turned leaving the house and calling the police from a neighbors phone. She didn't go unnoticed of course because before the police got there she returned to the house, with my ex husband, and they checked to see if the person was still in the house. I know, not smart, but then again, what can I say, that was my ex playing hero Dad. When I got home my Aunt was banging on the front door looking for my daughter as I parked the car. She was in a panic because she thought my daughter was still inside the house with the intruder. Someone had called her and told her my daughter had walked in on the house being robbed. One of my neighbors had wittnessed it. I paniced, opened the door, just as the police pulled up and stopped me from going in the house. They told me my daughter was across the street where she had called from. I looked up to see her coming across and started to cry. The police went through my house but no one was there. They talked to my daughter about what she saw since they had a suspect in mind. She was honest and could only indentify the back of the intruders coat. Yes, it matched that of the person they had but that didn't identify the person who robbed the house. She needed to have seen his face and she didn't. My neighbor, on the other hand, did see his face. As a matter of fact she knew exactly how long he was in my house because she told my sister all about it but refused to talk to the police. She said all I wanted was to collect the insurance money but all I wanted was to protect my family. Every thing taken in my house could be replaced but my daughter could never have been. She didn't understand that. The person who robbed my house lived only two doors away from me. The family moved off the block shortly after that and have been thrown out of one apartment after another since then. This past weekend neighbors have been calling me to tell me a good friend of mine rented his, soon to be empty apartment across the street from me, to the person who robbed my house. I couldn't believe it. I had spoken to him only the night before and he told me he did not rent the apartment. As a matter of fact he went on to tell us how hard it has been for him to rent. I really can't understand that since it's a 4 bedroom apartment and the rent is really reasonable for this area but I figured it was his business. I didn't know if he raised the rent for the new tennants or not and I wasn't going to ask. After I got my calls from the neighbors I spoke to one person I knew for sure would know if I should be concerned about it. My Aunt is the city councilwoman for our area so I stopped by and told her what I had heard and she filled me in a little more on the things this famiy had done since they were last living on my block. She asked me to talk to him and ask him to reconsider renting to someone like that because he was putting the neighborhood at risk. I did speak to him the following night and the thing that upset me more than anything else wasn't the fact that he knew their son was the one who robbed my house but he sounded upset because I knew who he rented the apartment to. He told me he didn't want anyone to know and he wanted to know who told me. I didn't tell him who the people were who called me but I did tell him to understand that the people in this neighborhood don't want this garbage here anymore and they are the ones that called me that was all he needed to know. He told me that he didn't care about his house or anything else. The man came to his house, he had the money, he told him he didn't want any problems in his house, and that was it. The man paid him the money and told him there was to be no problems in his house. I told him, "great did you tell him to make sure he left the rest of the neighborhood alone?" He said he didn't needed to worry about that. "Unbelievable." is all I can say.There are alot of seniors in this neighborhood and alot of single elderly woman who have no one to protect them. Now they have to worry about leaving their homes and being alone again because some one like this is in the neighborhood and the person who rented to him knew he what he is like. Amazing isn't it?