If somebody says they would kill their child if it turns out a certain way could that be grounds for a DCFS (or similar) investigation?
I see and hear a lot of folks openly making these statements, and most of the time I take it with a grain of salt because I know there are miserable hateful people in this world and that they say things maybe they don't mean for the sake of a reaction or to express frustration. Recently though, I heard it from one of my peers, a young expecting mother. Somebody who is currently pregnant, in her third trimester, and fully plans to carry this child to term and raise it as a single mother (She is 17 with no parental support.)
Now this girl has a slew of other issues including alcoholism, gang affiliation, and overall really poor life choices, which I obviously have no say in, if she wants to ruin her life that's her choice and her consequence. The prospect of having this child seems to have motivated her to seek safer environments to an extent, and I do think she has every intention to care for it (with conditions, more on that), so I'm not so concerned about the other aspects of her lifestyle seeing as she is recieving financial/mental health support from the government and her situation wouldn't allow most of her activities to continue in the presence of a child in supported housing.
My real concern, and this might be a nothing burger to a lot of you, but I know this girl and I know when she is just talking shit vs when she really believes something.
Last week, she had a really long (20+) snapchat story thread/rant basically talking about how everybody in her life is a snake and cannot be trusted, that she "isn't afraid" of them and wants to see what happens when they "try to step up to me" on her parenting plans and lifestyle in general, Posting screenshots of conversations with long paragraphs over them about "This person tries to say this but y'all don't know about this tea"—just pages and pages of honestly kind of frightening rambling. I worried she might be having some sort of psychosis, and I did call it in to the non-emergency line out of concern for her mental and physical health (I know pregnancy and especially the final trimester can be extremely tolling on the body and mind, I don't care if you think this was an overreaction, the things she was saying were absolutely justification for a welfare check.)
She was silent on all social media for a couple days, then this sunday another slew of posts. In these ones, she starts talking about how she is disgusted by the "pedophelic rhetoric" that is being pushed in public schools, and that she will absolutely not allow her child to be indoctrinated by the "SOGI cult movement" and "turned into a faggot". The post obviously prompted a lot of replies, people both respectfully asking why she held this stance/to educate them more on it, and some just ridiculing her (one talking about how she can't homeschool if her brain has been fried by pills, fair point imo)—which prompted another slideshow of screenshots from her dm's, all calling the people who messaged her about it (even the chill ones lol) pedophiles, creeps, sickos, saying that they wanted to eat her daughter and other totally insane shit–Then the last post, the one that prompted me to make this:
"If my daughter somehow turns out like one of you faggot freaks I'll kill her myself."
^Word for word her post. Among the context of all the other craziness coming from her account, it doesn't feel as damning as if it were to come up out of the blue in conversation, but it still feels like a very serious and direct statement to make. Would it be totally insane to report this? How would I report this? I live in Canada, we are entitled to freedom of the press, but our free speech is limited by legal boundaries such as uttering threats, much like in America. Could this be considered something to bring to the attention of local law enforcement or her support program? I am concerned both for her mental health and the safety of this child, who is due to be born any day now.
Thanks in advance for any advice or opinions. I really just don't know if its any of my business but I would feel really shitty knowing I didn't do anything that could possibly prevent a tragedy