Mom shares Ring video of the moment a stranger snooped through her home for 16 minutes while four children were inside alone and she was in the backyard

Police are looking to identify a man who walked through a stranger's Massachusetts home for 16 minutes while children were alone inside
Tarah Martell Schweitzer, 38, shared Ring video footage on Facebook hoping to identify the unknown man who walked through her home
The Massachusetts mom was in the backyard with five other adults while the young man walked through her home passing her children and petting her dog
Video footage shows him wearing camo colored crocs with hot sauce, pizza, and meatball charms, baggy blue joggers, and a blue t-shirt
Nothing was taken from the house and the children were unfazed leading Schweitzer to believe that he was given the wrong address

Published: 21:04 BST, 13 July 2021 | Updated: 21:27 BST, 13 July 2021

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A Massachusetts mom shared Ring video on Facebook hoping to identify the stranger who walked around her home uninvited for 16 minutes while her children were inside alone on July 11.

Northbridge Police Department is asking the public to help identify the young man.

Tarah Martell Schweitzer, 38, felt sick to her stomach when she learned all three of her children were in her home alone with a stranger for 16 minutes without her knowledge.

The mother-of-three was in the backyard of her Presidential Farms Neighborhood home with five other adults building a swing set while her young children and their friends played in the house.

Northbridge Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying the unknown man who 'snooped' around her home for 16 minutes while her children were inside alone

The children eventually went into the backyard to tell the adults about the unknown guest. T

he adults didn't believe the children at first and Schweitzer even jokingly warned her daughter Layla, 7, that the police were coming for her for lying.

As the children got more upset and insistent that they were telling the truth the concerned mother immediately called the police.

The children's story was confirmed when they checked the Ring camera and saw that a stranger had walked into their home at 1:04 pm and walked out their front door at 1:20 pm.

The unknown man walked up stairs and stood at the landing outside of one-year-old Max's room while he was napping and looked out the palladium window.

Then Schweitzer's eldest, Layla, and her cousin came out of the bathroom where they were playing with makeup and headed into her mother's room to get more, passing the stranger twice.

Tarah Martell Schweitzer, 38, posted the footage to her Facebook saying it made her feel sick to her stomach

The mother of three was in the backyard with five other adults building a swing set while the man walked through her home

Blake, 5, stood at the bottom of the stairs making eye contact with the unknown guest as the intruder kneeled down to pet the dog. He eventually walked back out the front door without taking or saying anything.

Schweitzer says that she normally feels 'very safe in this neighborhood' and describes it as 'a community of families and people who we trust.' It's exactly because her neighborhood is normally so 'safe and inviting' that this 'incident is mind blowing.'

A neighboring house's alarm went off a few minutes later at 2:09 pm but the police have not connected it to Schweitzer's intruder.

Schweitzer has been given two names which she has passed off to law enforcement.

While she is adamant that she will be installing more security cameras in her house she does 'think that this was an issue of him being at the wrong house.'

'He didn't engage with my children and didn't take anything. I think he showed up to where he was told to go and it took him a bit to realize this wasn't where he was supposed to be.' She concludes, 'There really is no other explanation.'

The Northbridge Police Department was unable to reached for a comment.