Neighbours called the police on my son, 3, for being naked at the window – I felt like a criminal
A BOY of three who waved at neighbours from his window while naked after a bath was quizzed by police for flashing.
Toddler Marley Kempster-Fury was happily playing until two cops visited and warned: “Don’t hang in windows with no clothes on.”
Mum Alex Stockton said her terrified son — a fan of police pup Chase from telly cartoon PAW Patrol — thought he “would get arrested”.
Waitress Alex, 27, said: “He hid behind me and stared.
“He was totally afraid, which is ridiculous when you think all he did was get his bum out.
“Any tiny child with a police officer towering over them with handcuffs on their belt would be scared.”
Alex added: “You’d think neighbours would have better things to do than report toddlers for being naked — and you’d think police have got better things to do than look into it.
“There are thugs and murderers out there.
“Why are they wasting time on a naked three-year-old?”
Mum-of-five Alex had given Marley a bath and let him innocently play before putting his clothes on Monday afternoon.
She was at home, in Lichfield, Staffs, with her kids when cops arrived 30 minutes later.
Alex, who lives with Marley’s dad, builder Simon Fury, 31, said: “An officer said, ‘Can I come in and have a quick word?’.
“He said, ‘We’ve had a report of a naked child in the window’.
“He said he had to follow it up.
“I said, ‘Yes, it was this one’ and pointed to Marley.
“In fairness, the officer was really nice.
“He gave Marley a high five then said, ‘Don’t hang in the window with no clothes on’.
“When he left, I felt a bit like a criminal.
“Then I realised we had done nothing wrong — and it was everyone else who had gone mad.”
The Staffordshire force said: “We were called following concerns for the welfare of a child who reportedly was naked in a window of a property.
“Officers attended a short time later.
“The child was found in the company of its mother.”
In the most recent data, Staffordshire Police ranked eighth worst out of 44 forces for time taken to answer 999 calls — 13.4 seconds on average.
Freedom of Information data revealed that between 2021 and 2022, only eight out of 312 burglaries reported to cops in East Staffs were “solved”.
Last year, a police watchdog put the force into special measures after finding that it “was not carrying out effective investigations”.