Mum’s horror as police barge into her bedroom after toddler sneaks out in middle of night

A mum whose toddler went wandering out of the house in the middle of the night was woken to three police officers barging into her bedroom and shining flashlights into her eyes

A mum has shared what she describes as “the horror story of the year” when she was woken up in the middle of the night by three police officers barging into her room after her two-year-old toddler escaped.

For many parents, the thought of their child going wandering out the house on their own is the stuff of nightmares – it’s something that might not cross your mind when your tot is all safe and sound in their bed.

Sadly for one mum, this is exactly what happened – and it left her feeling like “the sh****iest mum ever”.

Sharing the story through her TikTok account @mustangashley9, the toddler mum, who was holding back tears, is urging other parents to “childproof their lives” because “toddlers are savage”.

Retelling the frightening ordeal in a video, Ashley explained that she had put her children to bed at 8pm and checked on them at 10pm, before going to bed herself.

The distraught mum explained: “I open the door, I see him in his bed and he’s perfectly fine. So I go to bed.

“Then at about 1.45am, I am woken to three police officers coming into my bedroom. Not my front door, my bedroom. Thank god this is a night that I chose to sleep in pyjamas.”

The police, who were shining flashlights into the room, informed the parents that they had found her toddler “crying and screaming” in the cold, and that he was being kept safe in an ambulance.

She continued: “I, having just been woken up from a dead sleep, rush into my son’s room to find him not there and then proceed to run down the stairs, out the front door and down the block to find my son.

“They parked him a good distance away just so he would be safe, just in case we were drug addicts or, you know, horrible people.”

Ashley’s biggest surprise is that no one in the house, including her husband and mother-in-law, woke up to any of the commotion – including the front door opening, the baby monitor or police officers knocking. Even the dog didn’t bark.

Clearly devastated, she continued: “I don’t know how long he was out there. I feel like the s***tiest mom ever.”

Luckily, the mum assured her followers that her son was perfectly healthy and safe, but admitted that she wouldn’t be sleeping well for a long time.

In a bid to make the mum feel better, commenters reassured her that she is not a bad mother, and that similar things had happened to them.

One fellow mum said: “I think all parents have a scare with their little ones getting out. It happened to me. I got the locks for the top of my doors as a secondary measure.”

Another said: “I when my oldest was three he ran into a three-lane highway when I was buckling his little brother into the car seat. he was fine, I was not.”

Others offered helpful advice to the mother to avoid the same happening again.

One person said: “Do you have cameras? I have cameras inside and out. Also have alarms set for doors and windows for my toddler and child lock on front and back door.”

A second added: “This is the exact reason we have deadbolts at the top of our doors. Years ago My toddler got out front while I was asleep.”

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