Location: Indiana
When I was a kid my sister sexually and physically abused me. The sexual abuse started around age 6. She is now stepmom and has partial custody of her husband’s child. I have witnessed the following occur between her and her stepson (who is 12 years old):
- she allows him to touch/slap her butt
-they wrestle and most of the time the little boy will be on top of her and they will just kind of sit there in a weird position and giggle and laugh about it.
-she seems to sexualize the child by telling stories about how he will notice her cleavage or if she is wearing revealing clothing how he will then instruct her to change into less revealing clothing because she is “showing too much”.
There have been other things that have made me uncomfortable but I don’t remember them in detail and don’t want to get anything wrong so I won’t list those.
Anyway, I have a child myself who is about to turn five. I don’t know what it is but suddenly my sister has started acting differently towards my child which I noticed when we would go visit (they live out of state) I have since stopped visiting because of something that happened between my sister and my son (not sexual but also not appropriate and was speaking to him in a very disrespectful way). I was around when it happened and heard it and I made her leave and haven’t spoken to her since.
I am getting harassing and threatening texts now from my mom, dad. I have spoken to a therapist and they suggest a protection order especially against my mom who has since called me a demon, a witch and has told me she will take action (?) idk what that means.
My sister, however, has not sent anything threatening or aggressive and because of this I don’t know if I can legally put an order of protection against her. Would I be able to put an order in because she sexually and physically abused me as a child or would that have to have occurred more recently?
What is a way I can legally protect myself and my child from her? Preferably through an order of protection.
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding your post, but it doesn’t sound like your sister is threatening you in any way. There is no basis for an order of protection.
>Preferably through an order of protection
If there has been no contact between you and your sister, it’s unlikely an order of protection would be granted. Especially since they live out of state, that always complicates things. Why is the order so important?
>I am getting harassing and threatening texts now from my mom, dad.
Step one is going to be to let them know you no longer with to communicate with them and block them.
NAL but you can’t get an order unless you can demonstrate there’s a current or recent threat. Past violence as children likely won’t count.
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It would be very hard to get an order of protection against someone if they have not made any threats or harmed you physically within the last year. It sounds like you think you can get an OOP because of what’s happening to someone else from her actions