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RI don’t know where else to turn, and I really need advice. For the past two years, my husband’s relative (his grandmother’s nephew) has been verbally abusing his grandmother and her sister. He curses at them everyday, tells my husband’s grandmother to unalive herself, calls her horrible names, and even threatens to beat the almost 90 year old lady. He also taunts her sister (80 year old) for being infertile.
His main issue? My hus’s grandmother has respiratory issues and coughs a lot. That’s literally his problem with her. Whenever she coughs he starts yelling and cursing. Mind you, these women took care of him and fed him at different points in his life.
When he was younger, my hus’s grandmother would feed this ungrateful guy along with her son’s while starving herself to sleep because they were too poor to afford enough food. And now, this same man is telling her to kill herself or that he’s going to beat her up.
It gets even worse. Some years ago, he suffered a stroke, and the woman he now mocks for being infertile was the one who took care of him in the hospital and fed him with her own hands. And this is how he repays them.
He also curses and threatens my husband, my father in law, mother in law, me and even the younger kids in the family.
The stress from his constant abuse has been unbearable. I’ve personally struggled with depression because of this.
The younger grandmother, who has a weak heart, has started having panic attacks due to the emotional toll. Today was especially bad—he yelled and cursed almost all day, and she completely broke down.
I have proof of his abuse, but no one—not even our neighbors—cares. Noone in the family is willing to file a police complaint because:
He has a history of mental illness. He has no issues now.
They believe nothing will happen even if we report him. Even if we file a complaint, officials will just warn him, and everyone fears that could trigger him and bring out the worst, especially since he has some notorious friends. They’re scared he might harm me, or the younger kids in the family.
We all live in close quarters, so there’s no escaping this. I am scared for my safety, for his grandmothers, and for the rest of the family. But since no one is willing to take action, I feel completely stuck.
I thought about calling the elderly helpline, but I don’t know much about how it works. I’m also scared that if he finds out I made the call, he might retaliate against me.
Please, if anyone has any advice on what I can do, legally or otherwise, to protect myself and my husband’s family, I would truly appreciate it. I feel so helpless, and I don’t want this to go on any longer.
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DA lot of this depends on your location and your connections.
If the entire family is standing together then best to file a complaint, infertility and stuff around that is under SH and insulting the modesty of a woman, you can in the same breath ask the police to give some protection to the family from this beast. Outside of this you can get the guy beaten to a pulp
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