AITA for yelling at my neighbour because she called CPS on my husband?

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A little background; I (32f) live with my husband (33m), and our two children, Jake (6m) and Amy(3f). A young couple, probably in their early twenties, are our next door neighbours.

Two weeks back, my husband took Jake and Amy to a park nearby. Ideally I would’ve gone too, as it’s easier to manage the kids when we’re both there, but I had important office work that day and husband had a day off. Jake wanted to use the swing but husband forbade it since he was alone with the two of them and said that they’d just walk around. Sometime later, Amy got a pebble in her shoe or something and he sat her down on a bench to check it. He specifically asked Jake to stay beside him, but Jake, I guess really wanted to swing and seeing his dad’s attention elsewhere, decided to run for it. He was trying to go too fast, lost his balance and fell. All this happened in a matter of seconds.

That was it. They came back home, we talked to Jake about it and told him why he was wrong and we all moved the fuck on. Imagine our surprise when CPS (or the equivalent to CPS in our country; we don’t live in the US ) pulls up at our door and says that they’ve been given reports about how my husband was a negligent parent and how he put Jake’s life in danger. They mentioned the park incident where according to their version, my husband totally forgot about Jake and that led to Jake seriously hurting himself. (There were no serious injuries. He had minor scratches on his hands and knees).

Obviously they did not find anything wrong ; Didn’t tell us about the identity of the reporter though. Husband mentioned that our neighbours were present that day in the park and later when I asked, the woman confessed. She even went on to say that my husband was almost abusive and that she was just looking out for Jake.

Why do I believe my husband’s version and not hers? Well, firstly, he’s my husband and I trust him, and also because Jake confessed he disobeyed his dad.

I was super mad at this, and I generally don’t get that angry, but she was accusing my husband of being abusive and she called CPS on him. I yelled at her that she didn’t know shit about anything and she was just trivialising abuse and parental negligence. She cried and I told her to fuck off. Her boyfriend thinks that she was just mistaken and I should forgive mistakes.

AITA?