TikTok users have been left divided by Ring doorbell footage showing a mother who managed to evade a pair of burglars but left her two children inside her home.
Leah Amberly Wittsche, from Dallas, Texas, shared Ring footage of herself outside the home she shares with her partner Jake and their two children in a frantic state.
Wittsche is seen wrapped in a towel after being forced to leave her home by two robbers as she frantically calls her husband for help.
She can be heard telling her husband: “Call the police. I was in the bathroom, I thought you were home. These two guys came in, I begged them not to hurt the kids.”
Wittsche can be seen holding onto her dog as she shakes, but TikTok users were quick to point out why she didn’t think to grab her children during the ordeal last July.
Wittsche can be seen holding onto her dog as it shakes itself off, but TikTok users were quick to point out why she didn’t think to grab her children during the ordeal last July.
One person commented on her video, which has since been viewed more than 32 million times, saying: “She was in the bathroom, begged them not to hurt the kids and then LEFT WITHOUT THE KIDS but grabbed her dog!”
Another added: ‘So he took the dog out of the house and left the kids?’
While another posted: ‘Sorry why does she have the dog and not her son?’
In another video, she explained how she managed to leave home without her children and what happened.
Wittsche said she thought the two men who broke into her home were going to kill her after they walked into the bathroom while she was in the toilet.
She said: ‘I had just put my children to bed and was upstairs in my house. I went into the upstairs bathroom, locked the door and went to have a shower.
“I heard a lot of people walking upstairs, like very loud footsteps. I thought it was my husband.
“I thought it was weird. He had just checked his location and it said he was still at work. I didn’t think much of it, I just thought his phone must not be working properly.”
Wittsche said she thought the two men who broke into her home were going to kill her after they entered her bathroom while she was in the bath.
Wittsche added that the two men left without anything and shared images of a smashed ground-floor door showing their entry point.
Leah then claims she heard banging and someone trying to open the bathroom door, as well as screaming coming from the hallway.
He said the door handle then broke and two men dressed in black burst into the bathroom.
Wittsche continued: ‘The guy closest to me looks me up and down and then smiles.
“I was in shock, I stood up and stared at them. Then I realized: ‘Oh my God, my children.'”
She claims the man began yelling at her and threatened to kill her if she moved before stealing her phone.
Leah later claims she heard banging and someone trying to open the bathroom door, as well as screams coming from the hallway.
After the two men fled the bathroom, she says she ran into both sons’ bedrooms and checked on them.
She claims she then managed to activate her home alarm, before running to the front door in an attempt to get the attention of her neighbours.
After no one answers, she uses her front doorbell to call her husband, who is seen in the original video asking for help.
In another video, Wittsche added that the two men left without anything and shared footage of a smashed door on the ground floor showing their entry point.
He also added that the thieves left his phone behind, hiding it under a pillow in his living room.