Get Christine and Emily to safety
Hello, internet. My name is Lee and my family is in dire need of assistance.
TLDR: My sister and mother have been dealing with an abusive man for thirteen years. He had always found ways to get back with them, and got steadily more violent. He tried to steal my sister away from my mother, despite being the better parent. I need help getting them closer to me and with any costs trying to help them while they're still where they are now.
It's a time sensitive and desperate situation. I am trying for only $2000 but in all reality, it's going to be a whole of a lot more.
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In 2005, my mother got together with another man after her and my father discovered that they have differences that they couldn't settle. He seemed like a pretty cool guy; he brought me to Florida for my seventh birthday (my nineteenth is approaching soon) and spoiled the heck out of me.
But after they had my sister, things slowly started to get sour. I would find that things I needed were going missing. I saw them argue on and off through my childhood over things that never mattered or things that my mother never did. At first it was simple things.. they would yell as some couple do to take out their anger. They would make up and buy each other things. But this slowly started to get worse.
Let us skip to about my early teen years. This is when this man started to get physical. He would throw chairs at her and accuse her of cheating when all she did was sit in the house like he wanted. He would call her a drug addict for taking prescribed medication. He would bring home four beers a day and get drunk just to have a reason to get angry. It even got so bad at one point that he was too drunk to comprehend urinating all over the floor. He would put his hands on me and hit my sister a lot harder than she should have been hit. He would leave the house for months when they broke up and somehow, he always wiggled back into her life. As a mother of a child who loved her father, I can understand.
In the past year, things have gotten a little more hectic. Around this very same time in 2018, I had called out of work due to a fever. He got in my face and threatened to punch me after defending myself and saying I was sick. He was drinking again and mom kicked him out. At this point he started giving her hell. He would look up numbers to her friend's jobs and get them fired. He called CPS for no reason and called my mom a crackhead. He would call me vulgar names and say how we made him miserable despite the fact that we did little to nothing to hurt him.
In September of last year, due unforeseen circumstances, it was in my best benefit to move to another state with my girlfriend of a year and a half. My mother lost all of her benefits; her housing, her bill assistance.. So he found a way into her life yet again.
Everything seemed fine as it always did when he came back, but they started their spats and the heat of their arguments started getting hotter. It always went to how mom was cheating, but we found out that he was with six different women.. He had been watching and recording her every move. He would pay rent, but despite having what could be tens of thousands of dollars saved up, he would never buy her necessities.
What really tipped it off this time was that my sister had gotten a call from a Florida apartment complex and he had gotten a SIM card to change his number. Not only was he intending to move there, but he planned on taking my sister away from her mom without legal reason to. Mind you this child had been told to say things to my mother. He had pried into her and myself to hold anything against her.
That being said, I am trying to help them raise money to move closer to me and away from him. My mother has only partial (but most) custody of my sister and she is fighting him in court in order to move. She is financially unable to pay for her rent next month and definitely unable to pay for the means of transportation to come here She has two dogs, three cats, and a bunch of personal belongings that she has to get halfway across the US when her court case is solved.
I need as much help as I can get. I may need a plane ticket to fly there to help her pack, due to her MS. She has no friends or family left to support her except for me.
. As a freelance artist who cannot currently work more than a few hours a week within a company (I have a major surgery coming up), I am unable to afford my journey as well as my mom's
Every dollar helps. They're scared to stay where they are and they have not a single dollar to their name.
TLDR: My sister and mother have been dealing with an abusive man for thirteen years. He had always found ways to get back with them, and got steadily more violent. He tried to steal my sister away from my mother, despite being the better parent. I need help getting them closer to me and with any costs trying to help them while they're still where they are now.
It's a time sensitive and desperate situation. I am trying for only $2000 but in all reality, it's going to be a whole of a lot more.
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In 2005, my mother got together with another man after her and my father discovered that they have differences that they couldn't settle. He seemed like a pretty cool guy; he brought me to Florida for my seventh birthday (my nineteenth is approaching soon) and spoiled the heck out of me.
But after they had my sister, things slowly started to get sour. I would find that things I needed were going missing. I saw them argue on and off through my childhood over things that never mattered or things that my mother never did. At first it was simple things.. they would yell as some couple do to take out their anger. They would make up and buy each other things. But this slowly started to get worse.
Let us skip to about my early teen years. This is when this man started to get physical. He would throw chairs at her and accuse her of cheating when all she did was sit in the house like he wanted. He would call her a drug addict for taking prescribed medication. He would bring home four beers a day and get drunk just to have a reason to get angry. It even got so bad at one point that he was too drunk to comprehend urinating all over the floor. He would put his hands on me and hit my sister a lot harder than she should have been hit. He would leave the house for months when they broke up and somehow, he always wiggled back into her life. As a mother of a child who loved her father, I can understand.
In the past year, things have gotten a little more hectic. Around this very same time in 2018, I had called out of work due to a fever. He got in my face and threatened to punch me after defending myself and saying I was sick. He was drinking again and mom kicked him out. At this point he started giving her hell. He would look up numbers to her friend's jobs and get them fired. He called CPS for no reason and called my mom a crackhead. He would call me vulgar names and say how we made him miserable despite the fact that we did little to nothing to hurt him.
In September of last year, due unforeseen circumstances, it was in my best benefit to move to another state with my girlfriend of a year and a half. My mother lost all of her benefits; her housing, her bill assistance.. So he found a way into her life yet again.
Everything seemed fine as it always did when he came back, but they started their spats and the heat of their arguments started getting hotter. It always went to how mom was cheating, but we found out that he was with six different women.. He had been watching and recording her every move. He would pay rent, but despite having what could be tens of thousands of dollars saved up, he would never buy her necessities.
What really tipped it off this time was that my sister had gotten a call from a Florida apartment complex and he had gotten a SIM card to change his number. Not only was he intending to move there, but he planned on taking my sister away from her mom without legal reason to. Mind you this child had been told to say things to my mother. He had pried into her and myself to hold anything against her.
That being said, I am trying to help them raise money to move closer to me and away from him. My mother has only partial (but most) custody of my sister and she is fighting him in court in order to move. She is financially unable to pay for her rent next month and definitely unable to pay for the means of transportation to come here She has two dogs, three cats, and a bunch of personal belongings that she has to get halfway across the US when her court case is solved.
I need as much help as I can get. I may need a plane ticket to fly there to help her pack, due to her MS. She has no friends or family left to support her except for me.
. As a freelance artist who cannot currently work more than a few hours a week within a company (I have a major surgery coming up), I am unable to afford my journey as well as my mom's
Every dollar helps. They're scared to stay where they are and they have not a single dollar to their name.
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Lee Correa
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Dyersburg, TN