article_snippet.sent: In March, CPS found the Meitivs guilty of neglect for letting the children walk home from school alone.
article_snippet.sent: It meant the agency would start a file on the family's activities and whereabouts for at least five years.
article_snippet.sent: Unsubstantiated child neglect is not a criminal charge, but is in most cases a prelude to such charges.
article_snippet.sent: It usually comes when CPS has deemed parents to have neglected parents children, but has insufficient information or witnesses to press charges or take action.
article_snippet.sent: We don’t feel the decision was appropriate for an investigation to start, much less conclude that We are responsible for some form of child neglect,' Danielle Meitiv told the Washington Post. '
highlights_snippet.sent: The Meitivs were found guilty of neglect in March.