
Help me and my family seek justice.
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Some years ago, my aunt had suffered a stroke that left her disabled. My adopted mom had invited her and her family over to America with the promise to provide care and US citizenship for them. Instead, my adopted mother stole the their life savings and used them as slave labor. Without money, they had no ability to return to Korea. She later abandoned them by dropping them off at my house, and I have been sheltering them ever since.
I'm opening this GoFundMe to raise money for legal representation for my relatives for them to get a T-visa, or failing that, get them enough funds to move back.
She complains about the family not wanting to work, but they had no business doing so. My aunt was disabled and elderly. One cousin had recently had heart surgery at the time. The other one is clinically mentally incapable of working. My niece was 4 at the time. The only one that was capable of working was my uncle.
This is my cousin's scar from heart surgery. It's old now, but it was recent when he arrived. He had multiple seizures while he was living with my adopted parents.
I tried to deal with this situation amicably with my adopted mother for years. One day, one of those family members, my uncle, had died, and this is what she had to say about it.
This is a man that she had forced to work on her 4 acre yard, planting, gardening, weeding, farming, rebuilding her property's sea wall, tending to whatever animals my adopted mother decided was going to be fashionable to have at any given notice, as well as cooking.
Soon after my uncle died, my aunt's condition began quickly deteriorating. That's when I went to my adopted mother's house to talk to her about taking responsibility for the people who she had stolen from and abandoned. I had asked when she was going to take responsibility for my aunt. My adopted mother had always said that her love for her was what compelled her to invite the family over from Korea, yet on this matter, this is what she had to say:
She complains about having to buy diapers for her disabled family member that she invited. She had very little else to do. Food, shelter, and basic necessities are the bare minimum when providing care, which is something that she had promised and agreed to. My uncle was taking care of everything else.
As I couldn't talk to her and ask her to take responsibility, I foolishly went to her church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and ask them to have her do the right thing. I met with some elders, and they agreed to talk to her and then refused to do anything helpful.
I had heard of the horror stories about that cult, but most of my negative experiences while growing up as a Jehovah's Witness were directly from my adoptive mother. I had thought that maybe they weren't actually that bad, that most of those stories were off of a few and that there had to be some that were good.
I was wrong.
Evidently, this cult doesn't care if their members lie and steal. They don't care about telling the truth or keeping promises or helping those in need. The god they worship punishes good acts, as the elders state that they risk losing their "everlasting life" by doing anything that would help these people.
I've looked at every option I could think of that were available to me. This is the last one.