This, my friends, is sadly a true story. it continues on to this very day. a lady (in her 50s) that I have known for over fifteen years who lives in New York State is being severely abused. The timeline of this abuse is not for fifteen years. The timeline is actually for the past few years. A number of years ago she moved into her brother's house. She does not have any place else to go because of some disabilities. she's not able to make any money right now because of severe trauma. their mother also happens to live in the same house and she is suffering from some mental degradation. She suffers from Schizophrenia. many years ago she was diagnosed with the schizophrenia and has lived with it ever since and has been on disability benefits because of this. My friend, however, has just recently moved in with the family because she had no other choice and unfortunately she was not able to find a job because of her progressive blindness, which at first was mild, has now become severe. She used to be a technician who worked for companies who who dealt with computer problems. that is no longer possible because of her blindness, but she does use the computer with s particular settings of a black background with white text because that is the only way she can see the screen. Unfortunately the story gets much, much much much much much worse from here, so I would ask you to be cautious of reading this if you are hyper sensitive. She was living out in the northern mid-west with extended family. Unfortunately that's at the time where her blindness started to get a little bit worse than it was and at that time she had moved in with somebody who agreed to help her out while she tried to rebuild her life. But it turns out that that particular life was not going to happen because her extended family turned out to be very abusive verbally and made her life very, very difficult there. the details of it are not as important, but the abuse had started. I will say openly that it was involving guilt, insults, and demands for money. She then realized that it was time for her to move out, but she first had to find some place she could move to. At this time she did not have a license and in order for her to move to another location, she would have to have somebody drive her or take a bus, but she also had many personal things, not all of which would fit on a bus. Finally, her family, her brother and his wife, I guess, if I remember it correctly, came out to her, picked her up, and brought her back to their place. At the same time, the mother had also moved in with the brother and his wife, and by the way, they also have two teenage children. So now we have a sister, a brother and his wife, their two children, and the sister and brother's mother, who has schizophrenia, living in this house. that in itself is quite a bit of stress, granted. but she was invited to come there because she didn't have any place else, and she was told that she could stay as long as necessary. After an unknown amount of time, maybe a year, all of a sudden things started to slowly change. things like if she would go into the kitchen the wife would start to huff and puff in a frustrated tone, suggesting that her presence was not welcome. there would then be more and more complaints about her leaving a mess in the kitchen and being cruel to the children for whatever reason, but this never happened. Basically, in short, the wife began to lie quite a bit. Then one night things got very ugly. Her brother was outside on the back porch and he was having some type of celebration. I don't know if it was his birthday or something else, and they were drinking, and apparently the kids were also being served alcohol. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what I was told. My friend then w went outside and said, Could you please turn down the radio so I can get some sleep. Now it should be noted very importantly that her particular room was actually what you'd call a back porch room. So there was sliding glass doors and then an encapsulated room where you might step out and enjoy some sun coming from the large windows. Underneath the floor was the porch, so there was no foundation. It was just a couple of heating vents connected from the from the house. So on the side of the room that she stayed in, they were there enjoying the party and sh blasting the music. Obviously it was right next to her room and so it c clearly went through the sound went through the walls and it kept her awake very late into the night. So she went out and complained. Sadly this is where it gets nasty. So I would recommend it if you get sensitive. I would be reading this part with great caution. As soon as she said, Would you turn the music down, he turns around, and I wasn't there, so I'll make it look sound like a movie, but I don't know for fact. He turned around, grabbed her by the throat, slammed her against the house, and started to threaten her with her life. And saying, You caused me to do this, you caused me to behave this way. It was a vicious attack. Technically speaking, he could have been arrested right then and there, but the police were not called. Why? Fear of retaliation. She looked at him and just switched into automatic mode and I guess she said something along the lines of, If you're gonna do it, then do it And then she claimed that he said he'll even get his gun and kill her. That again is an arrestable abusive behavior. At that point, or somehow, the wife was shouting out of the window, supporting his behavior, saying something possibly to the lines of "She deserves it, get her, get her!" My friend then goes back into her room and everything goes quiet for a little bit. Then all of a sudden he comes into the room, picks up her computer, screaming at her some more, and smashes it on the floor, destroying its capability of operating it all. a a day or two later the wife comes in sees that the computer's not working she tells her that the computer's not working and within a week she has a brand new computer and the hard drive from the old computer was rescued and put onto the new computer so she is back online. but the actual crime itself was no longer discussed and the ironic twist is that the wife happens to work for a legal firm. I don't know what her job exactly is there, but I think she knew there was going to be trouble. So she paid for a brand new computer for my friend. And I think that was probably because she was nervous about things getting legally out of hand. each day thereafter she has not been able to leave the room out of being nervous for verbal attacks or possibly p physical violence. She has difficulty going into the kitchen without having massive anxiety attacks, let alone to the bathroom w without having anxiety attacks on a daily basis. And then just recently, within the last couple of weeks, we had another incident. I'm not too sure of the exact story, but what I was told is that the wife started to complain about some subject that I don't quite understand, and then the mother came into the room and apparently was in a mindset where she grabbed her daughter and slammed her head into the bed, saying all kinds of very, very nasty lies like you're useless, you're this, you're that, and unfortunately my friend cannot see what's coming because she because she's 90% blind. So she was viciously attacked by the wife and her own mother. And the children had been there and they were witnesses to it, but afterwards denied that anything happened when my friend asked them "Did you see what happened?" They apparently were quoted saying, "We didn't see anything." Which was a lie. My friend has now said that she has decided that she needs to move out now and she's decided to call all kinds of hotlines in the state of New York. And I mean everyone that you can think of, even using the artificial intelligence to ask which numbers to call. So far I believe she's called between somewhere between five and maybe ten or twelve different telephone number hotlines for abuse of different companies and state and federal levels. Every one of them has failed to be able to say we can help you, we can get you out of there. Or if they did not answer, they never returned the phone calls. I actually have an article about this saying that the New York State abusive hotline system has completely broken. I don't know what's going on with it, but she has not gotten any help whatsoever. No callbacks, and are also saying they've run out of money. They don't have enough people to help either. And if you call the police, they may not send you to a woman's shelter. They may send you to a psychiatric hospital because there's no place else to put the victims. So this particular podcast or post is including with it the A button to PayPal to send her donations directly to her PayPal account, not to anybody else. It's a verified email address, and if you send her a donation, you will be helping her to find an apartment someplace in Florida, which is where she wants to go, because she knows a number of people there that are willing to help out, but they cannot afford to pay for her to come down, and they cannot afford to give her any kind of shelter themselves. They just don't have that money. But if she does get down there, they can certainly support her in other ways. And apparently in the state of Florida, there's actually more help for people in her situation as far as she's aware. She hasn't looked at at too many other states because living up in the north is making things even worse for her because she stays inside during the winter time and that's very challenging for her. She wants to be able to get out into the sun, even though she can't see it. She wants to be able to go someplace and have support because she she cannot see and enjoy activities, she wants to learn how to live like a person who cannot see. She wants to get mentally healthy and start learning how to survive with blindness which are skills that she now needs. But where she is right now, the help for that is extremely limited . For some reason, there's just no money available. So as her friend and as this is a post that I use and hopefully people will see this and read it will be able to click on the PayPal button and send her a donation of some amount so that she can buy a moving van, she can get a deposit on an apartment or a house or something in Florida, perhaps in the northern part, and she can pay for her transportation, the truck, the deposit on the apartment, and maybe even a few months of rent while she's down there so that she can get started. But she is in desperate need of help and so far there's nobody and no government system available to help. The artificial intelligence that she has been talking to has been claiming that all of these different telephone numbers will connect her to somebody who can help. But on every single one of them that she's called, they've all said, Sorry, they cannot help. The artificial intelligence has been saying that they are lying, that they have mandates that they are required to help. But the human side of it says, No, there's nothing we can do. How ironic of a twist is that.

Now also keep in mind I have even looked into the GoFundMe website page, but unfortunately since I am not in the United States, I do not have access to bank accounts in the United States, and GoFundMe requires you to have a bank account in the country where the person who will receive the money for help. So this is a situation where options are very, very limited on ways that she can get help. 

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