(ConservativeJournal.org) – A New Hampshire family has been terrorized by homeless vagrants living in the woods behind their family home. Robin Bach lives in Concord with her husband and two children, ages 8 and 11.
They purchased a 19th-century fixer-upper in 2018 as a restoration project but in the years that followed, they’ve been harassed and called the police 37 times after homeless people living in tents in the property behind their home fired off guns or were involved in assault incidents.
The additionally reported screaming and yelling at all hours of the night and a man who was found casually sitting in their backyard threatened Robin’s husband with death when he asked him to leave.
Bach told local press that she won’t allow her children to play in the backyard due to the potential harm that could come from the random people living back there. She also suggested the problem has only gotten worse over time, with the two tents ballooning to over a half dozen over the last few years. She complained that putting up fencing would cost their family tens of thousands of dollars.
The 37 calls to the cops have been for a variety of things like threats, trespassing, domestic violence, and other incidents including a dumpster fire just two houses down from theirs. Another major problem is that the property is adjacent to railroad tracks and that property has its own police force.
Bach says that despite arrests and attempted outreach by the local government on getting these people help, they remain and continue to cause problems. The trash is overwhelming; Bach said there’s so much garbage behind her house that she can’t physically clean it all up.
Part of the problem is homelessness springing up in New Hampshire in the aftermath of the pandemic. The state has had major increases over the years. A recent Supreme Court decision has made it easier for police to remove homeless vagrants impeding on public property, but even when police remove the vagrants, Bach says they simply come back days later.
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