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TRIGGER WARNING - I mention attempted suicide and alcohol use

I have posted on here a couple times about my fiancé’s adopted brother and the situation he is in, but I will do a brief summary of everything leading up to this point.

My MIL is a vile, disgusting woman. She was a foster. She took in four brothers a couple years ago. She mentally (no concrete proof of physical, although it has been mentioned by the boys) abused them. Once the oldest turned 18 (he was a year older than me) he left. The next brother attempted suicide to get away from her. The next acted out so she would send him away. The youngest, who was only 9 at the time, was adopted by her. She put thoughts in his head that nobody else would want him. She hasn’t allowed him to have any contact with his siblings, even though there isn’t anything ordered by the courts regarding it.

Fast forward to last December, that boy was 12 years old. He lost his temper and made a mess of MIL’s house, then locked himself in his room so he wouldn’t hurt her. Keep in mind he has been dealing with her completely alone for 2 years now, because my fiancé moved out and she wouldn’t let him go around us. We also had no contact with her at this point. She started calling my fiancé at 11pm, he didn’t answer so she started calling me. Left a voicemail that we needed to get over there right away and it was in regards to the child. We rushed over there. She told us and the officers that he choked her and trashed the house because she told him to get off the Xbox. She was talking perfectly fine for someone that was “choked out” less than 5 minutes prior. She also had no marks, not even a red spot on her neck. The officers were also skeptical that he choked her. The officers sent him home with us that night and told us a CPS report would be filed after my fiancé told them what has been going the past 3 years. We were told to keep him with us until CPS got ahold of us. In the car, he told us MIL was saying horrible things about his birth mother and he lost control and started throwing stuff around, but he never touched MIL.

A couple days later, New Year’s day, we got a text from MIL that she would be coming by later to get him. We told her no, we were told we had him until CPS called. She said she got off the phone with the sheriff’s department and that she would be over with an officer shortly to get him. He had to go. KEEP IN MIND SHE WORKS FOR THE COURTHOUSE/SHERIFF DEPT.

About a month later, we get a call from my little brother (that is my fiancé’s brother’s age, they are buddies) that called my brother, saying he couldn’t do it anymore he just couldn’t do it and he was going to hurt himself and asked if he could come over. He showed up at my parents’ house, stopped at the bottom of the porch and booked it into the woods behind my parents’ house. My dad chased after him but couldn’t catch him. My dad called us. We started searching for him. January. Dead winter. Just had a huge storm and it was still snowing. We start searching for him, and one of the other brothers calls my fiancé. The youngest got ahold of a phone and called him to pick him up and the brother wanted to know what was going on. My fiancé explained. My grandparents started searching with us, my parents stayed home in case he came back. My MIL got home from work and called the sheriff’s dept. and told them he was missing. My fiancé and I finally found him on the side of the road - stopped by a car - with one shoe missing and clearly drunk. They were on the phone with the police because he was talking about hurting himself. The officers pulled up and he ran into the woods.

A few days later we are in the courthouse. He has two counts of resisting arrest and an MIP. My fiancé and I get emergency custody of him. He had to wear a tether. We had a 8 month old. He was with us for a couple months, he was told by the judge he would be getting evaluated to return to her custody so he ran again. This time he was sent to a juvenile center.

It has been about 6 months since this happened. For the past few months he has been in the custody of a family we know very well, they have boys his age and things have been going well. They tried filing for guardianship of him. He had a court hearing yesterday. MIL presented papers revoking their guardianship request and demanded he be in her custody immediately. He told the judge if he had to go back there, he’d either kill himself or run. The judge said fine, you’ll be put in a juvenile facility until you’re 17. His lawyer spoke up stating he hasn’t broken his probation and can’t be placed in juvy for no reason. The family that has him asked that he stay with them. The judge ordered he get a COVID test, and he will be placed in a juvenile center on November 5th when the judge gets back from vacation, if his results are negative.

He is Native American and the judge has claimed the tribe can’t do anything to help him, my fiancé got in touch with them back in February and they got involved.

I should also add that CPS was involved back in February as well, the worker only spoke with Mil and never talked with the child or my fiancé and I, who he was living with at the time.

Everyone is failing this boy. He is a sweetheart that has been mentally tortured to the point he is willing to die in place of going back to live with her. This is not a teenager being rebellious. This is not the typical “My mom is mean”. That is what the judge and CPS believe, because she is a master manipulator. The counselor he spoke with appeared at one of his court hearings and was told his evaluation did not matter. This disgusting woman (MIL) is destroying this kid’s life.

I know this is all over the place, I left a LOT of stuff out because this is already extremely long as is. We are at a loss here. We have been fighting for this boy for almost a year and he is being failed by the system. Please, please give us prayers and advice if you have any.