My Little Brother (Male, 13) Wants to Move out of my Abusive Dad's House (Male, 52). I'm Worried About his Safety and Would Like to Know What my Options are to Protect him.

I am a female, 23 years old. I do not live with my dad, and no longer speak with him for my own mental health.

Long story short, my dad is an abusive piece of shit who nearly strangled my mom to death, and gaslighted my brother to believe my mom was the abusive one after they divorced. 

Currently, my brother has been able to see through my dad's attempts to dissuade him from trusting mom, and my brother has been wanting to move into my mom's house for several months now. While my brother has never actually said anything to my dad about it, he's been able to pick up on the subtle hints, and it's caused my dad to either try to promise my brother the world or threaten him with violence to convince him to change his mind. My brother has told his school counselor several times that he doesn't feel safe living with his dad, and both the police and child protective services have come over to the house, looked around, saw that there was food in the pantry and that there were no visible signs that my dad beats my brother, and decided that there's no problem for them to solve.

Well, shit kind of hit the fan last night, and my dad, mom, and brother sat down in a counseling appointment together so that my brother could finally tell my dad that he doesn't want to live with him anymore. I wasn't there, but according to my mom, my dad blew up, said absolutely not, and stormed out of the room. He then came back and said "You know what? You can have him, but I'm not paying child support.", then left. A little while later he called my mom and said that he still was going to take my brother on the 6th of July since that is the court ordered visitation right.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this, but I'm incredibly anxious about my dad having my brother again after that just happened for reasons that I feel are pretty obvious. Is there anything I can do to prevent my brother from going back with my dad?

TL;DR: My dad is a violent, and manipulative asshole, and he doesn't like that my brother doesn't want to live with him anymore. I'm worried about my brother's safety, and I want to help him.

Submitted June 20, 2019 at 09:09AM by IggySparkleBooty http://bit.ly/2x60Xh9