In the call, the hysterical-sounding father says: “I just need the police, I need the police. Please send an ambulance, my daughters are in the lake drowning. CPS was trying to take my kids away from me. All I did was try to go get help … because I was dealing with some [inaudible] things, OK?
“I was dealing with some sexual desires … I started to go get help with, but instead they turned their back on me, the whole system and tried to take my kids [cries, inaudible].
“Y’all take this and y'all left me. When somebody asks for help, really help them, OK? Really help them, because y'all didn't help me. You blame CPS for this. You blame CPS. These [expletive] are dumb.
“They try to take people's kids over dumb [expletive] and this is what you get! All I wanted was help! Ever since I tried to go get help, my problems got a hundred times worse … nobody was there for me!
“I need somebody to go and break the news to my wife; I need an ambulance out there. She's gonna be in shock, she's gonna be in shock.”
WARNING: SOME MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING RECORDING DISTRESSING
According to the News Observer, an off-duty sheriff named David Earp arrived at the scene in Durham County, USA, first and pulled the girls (aged 3 and 5) out of the lake.
“I dropped my radio and just went in there, went out to about chest deep, and grabbed both of them and brought them to dry land,” he said.
Other officers arrived and helped him perform CPR on the youngest child (the 5-year-old was awake and breathing) until an ambulance arrived.
“We worked on her, it felt like a good 15, 20 minutes or so,” he added to the News Observer.
“And they put her on the stretcher and took her off to the hospital. I just hope she has a positive outcome.”
The 3-year-old remained in critical condition Tuesday, while the 5-year-old’s status was good, a police spokeswoman said.
Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter, 29, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and is being held at the Durham County Jail on a $2,250,000 bond.