Help Tyler

My brother, Tyler Haskett, has been emotionally abused for years by his father and step-family.  Tyler is a boy with terrible Bipolar, ADHD and ODD.  Despite all his mental disorders, however, he is a sweet and loving boy.  For years he's been judged by his medication and labeled by the lies his step mother and his father spread about him.  He's constantly taunted by his step-siblings: being called fat, gross, stupid, retarded, gay, etc.  To the normal person this seems like a harmless taunt, but to my brother it is like being his by a car every hour of everyday.  My step-siblings know the effect it takes on him but they continue with it because they laugh at his reactions.  My father is constantly locking himself in his bedroom so he doesn't have to deal with the children and spends his time playing games, ignoring his son's constant pleas of help.  The step-mother is not any better.  Because she believes that her children do no wrong, she constantly grounds Tyler, yells at him, and emotionally hurts him.

 

The other day my brother snapped.  When he snaps he does not know what he is doing.  He blacks out.  On the day in question, he finally snapped from his bad treatment and pulled a knife.  He has done this plenty of times before but has never physically harmed anyone with a knife.  To him it must have been a defense, but not to my step-mother.  To her it was finally an excuse.  She proceeded to call the police on him, having eighteen police officers come with assult rifles.  Assult rifles on a scared, scarred, fourteen year old boy.  He dropped his knife instantly and has been taken in under charges of a felony.  Despite my oldest step-sister doing drugs, stealing, actually harming people and drinking, Tyler was put under a felony.

 

Tyler's next court date isn't until April.  That means he'll be behind bars for a month or even longer, and no one is doing a thing to get him out.  He's scared, alone, and being more mentally scarred by every second.  We need to help him.  What he needs isn't lock up, but mental help that my father and step-mother do not provide him.  He needs therepy, better medicine that actually helps.  He needs moral support and no one is giving it to him.  We need to help Tyler and show that family that he is not a criminal.