Child Protective Services
6:58A CPS worker calls a father about reports of child neglect, but the father gets angry and denies everything, leading to a confrontation.
Transcript
171 linesHello.
Hello.
Uh I'm trying to speak to the man of the house, please.
It's me.
Uh Mr.
Mr.
Jason.
You got him?
All right.
How you doing, sir?
All right.
Who's this?
My name is Mark.
Mark's giving you a call actually from uh Child Protective Services.
Uh how's your day going today so far?
Oh, I'm good, but you you sure you call in the right place?
Yeah, definitely.
You you you you're you're Mr.
Jason, correct?
Correct.
All right.
Now your your your girlfriend or your wife, I'm not sure if you guys are married or not, is Miss Stephanie, uh I presume.
Right.
But uh that's it's my girl, but um saying her last name, but um um now you said you call him from where again?
Uh Child Protective Services, sir.
And uh really what's going on here, uh uh Jason is that you um you guys have five children, am I correct?
Okay.
Okay.
Now, what we're having is we're getting uh we we've been getting, sir, a few reports that these kids aren't being taken care of properly.
Nah, nah.
Nah nah nah nah nah report from where?
I I you know we we take care of these kids that ain't and shouldn't nobody be feeding y'all no garbage like that that we ain't taking care of no kids.
Nah.
We got five kids.
It's hard out here, but we take care of them kids.
I don't I don't even know, sir.
So we're getting, sir, uh we're getting reports that uh you guys are uh not feeding them properly, that some nights and some days these kids actually go without eating.
Uh that they don't have proper uh clothing attire or nah that ain't true.
All them kids, uh every last one of the kids, they wear designer, they uh you know, uh fashionable.
It's nah.
Ain't nobody not taking care of the kids.
I don't even know where you're getting that from.
Are you guys actually are you combing their hair and brushing their teeth in the morning?
Come on, man.
Like like you
gotta be b.
You you you gotta be playing.
No, no, no, no, I'm not actually.
That leads me to something else.
Uh I've actually had a visit with the uh at the school today.
And I visit with uh a couple of the children.
Now the younger son, uh I met with him today, and we talked and and I asked him a few questions.
Uh I I said uh I told him I said I have a few more questions I want you to answer.
And to be honest with you, Mr.
Jason, he he he stood up and looked me in the eye and said, that
and I and I I just I was blown away by it.
And I said, wait a minute, excuse me, what did you say?
You hear what I said.
I said, F that.
Yeah, but but now now I'm the from my understanding.
I asked him, I said, where did you hear that kind of language being said?
Where did you hear that from?
And he said he heard it from his father at home.
That's like I don't talk like that around my kids.
That's that's a bunch of like that ain't you you're you're you're you here you are saying it now.
You're cursing now.
I'm cussing to you, but I don't cuss to my kids like that.
I don't talk to my kids like that, man.
Sir, if you're talking like this in front of me, then nine times out of ten you're doing it in front of the kids.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Listen, I'm a grown man.
You can't you calling me, telling me about my kids, and you gonna tell me how I can't talk to you.
I don't talk around my kids like that.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Well look, sir, let me let me let me bring this to a nutshell for you.
We're what we're doing today is we are coming by there, and we're gonna have to bring we're we're we're gonna have to bring all five kids in.
Uh uh, hold on, hold on, listen.
You coming a
to get who?
Five kids?
You're not coming.
Listen to this.
Now I'm gonna keep it real with you.
Now I've been trying to hold my composure since you got on the phone.
First of all, I don't appreciate you calling me like this with no like this.
Now, the first three, those ain't mine.
They dad live up the street.
You might go find him in the pool hall somewhere.
You're not coming to get them last two.
Sir, I'm coming to get all five children, sir.
Yeah, listen to this, sir.
You will not be coming to get those last two.
I can guarantee you you won't be coming to get those last two.
I guarantee you have to get I have to bring all five children in.
That's just uh that those are that's my assignment.
That's what has to be done.
Okay, well, check this out.
Assignment, my if you step foot up here, look, I'm not gonna even keep playing myself.
Man, I do what I'm supposed to do by all those kids.
You not taking those last two out of here.
I'm taking all five children.
Are you hearing me?
Hey, check this out.
Are you listening to me?
Yo, man, who the f you talking to?
I'm like, yo, who you keep raising your voice at like that?
I'm a grown man.
You better slow it up.
I don't give a f who you are.
You better not be calling me with that, sir.
I'm bringing a van in there at four o'clock, and we're hauling these kids in the protective services.
Do you understand that?
Hold on, let me tell you something.
See, that's where you're f up at.
And you won't tell me what time you coming down here.
That's some real gangster sh.
Bring your
Down here at 4 o'clock.
I swear to God, I will be waiting on your ass, sir.
I don't want any problems.
I'm letting you know.
No problems, my ass.
Four o'clock.
Show up at 4 o'clock.
Uh-huh.
Just 4 o'clock.
Ain't nothing else to talk about.
I want you to have all the kids' things packed in a bag.
Listen, don't talk about it.
Be about it.
Okay?
Don't talk about this no more.
Be about it.
Four o'clock.
You're gonna have a life skin all over your ass.
Four o'clock.
So I got I got one more thing I need to say to you before I get before I get there today, okay?
I don't want to hear that.
Four o'clock.
So I got one more thing I want to say to you.
Four o'clock.
Say it, man.
Four o'clock.
That's what I got to say to you.
But I got one more thing to say to you.
Can I say it?
Say it.
Say it.
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.
You just got pranked, baby.
You just got pranked by your sister.
Who?
Jason, this is Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.
Man, listen.
Hey, listen, I'ma tell you something.
Hey, man, your sister Regina put me up to this, man.
And look, Regina need a s with.
That's what need to happen.
Man, y'all playing games with me.
Got these kids over here struggling and sh like.
Excuse me.
I mean, you better be glad you said you you you was uh nephew Tommy, because somebody pulled up here at four o'clock.
They was getting a mu stomped in the top of their damn hood.
For real.
I wasn't playing that shit.
You know, damn.
That that you scared the hell out of me.
That's just point blank, man.
Hey man, I gotta ask you, man.
What is the baddest radio show in the land?
Oh man, Steve Harvey morning show, man.