This is really long, can I sue my father for Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress?

Question

I am 16 right now but i am looking to pay my father back for what he has done to my family and I as soon as i turn 18. These are my reasons.
Well for starters, my mother cant try to get custody for my two little sisters because he told her that if she did, he would kill her and she already has what I guess you can call a piece treaty against him. He has messed me up emotionally by abuse. verbal and physically. he has beat me with chairs, choked me against the wall, ripped an belly button ring out of my stomach, which ripped the skin. I was about ten and he used to wake me and all of my sibblings up and forced us to drink jack daniels. He would threatin to beat us if we refused. sold pot in front of me and my sibblings.(bagged it up, seperated it.) Had his friends smoke crack in front of me and my siblings. I have mental issues now. I have cut, faught with my mother, and start fights with other people. there is so much more.

There was one time that he thought that I had stopped eating, and forced me to eat three servings of dinner every night, and I was not allowed to go to the bathroom for four hours straight. The thing that has bothered me the most is that he left my mother for her neice that they adopted after he forced me to call her my sister, and forced her to call him daddy. I was not allowed to go to the guidence counselor. everytime i did, I would get hit. I had to keep my emotions in side of me. now when i get too stressed, I see huge bugs crawling around and loud noises terrify me.
what do you think?

I have dropped out of school due to not being able to concentrate. nobody would help me and I cant bear to see my mother get her five children tooken away from her.
I'm screwed. I have went to the guidence counselor, but my parents tend to turn things around and make me look like the bad person. my father is a verry sneeky man and is also very strong. he will kill my mother if we do anything to stop him. my mother has lots of cop friends, and yet she does nothing.

Answer 1

Is there a family friend or possibly the parent of a friend of yours that would be willing to contact Child Protective Services?? Do you have a Councellor at school you could talk to? They are required by law to report suspected abuse. You and your sisters need to be out of that house ASAP.

Please understand that your Mother may not back you up or be willing to get out herself. That is a part of her sickness. That happens sometimes when someone is physically or mentally abused. Sometimes women start to believe all the negative stuff they are told by their abusive husbands/boyfriends. I know you love her, but you need to do this for your sisters who are too young to do it for themselves, and for yourself.

Answer 2

You need to talk with a counselor at school who can help get you in touch with the state agency that handles the welfare of children in your state. With what you say all of you, not just you needs to be removed from that house. They'll set you up with a place to stay, or if there's a relative that's sane and won't hurt you they could also put you with them. I'm dobuting they'd put you with your mother, it sounds like she probably has problems of her own, and there's no way to make sure she wouldn't let your father come over to abuse you and/or come over and take you back to his place and totally beat the living daylights out of you.

Bottom line you and your sibblings need to get the heck out there as quickly as possible, forget any possesions you have there, just leave, goto the police or school counselor, and they'll protect you and get you into a loving and caring home.

If you can't get to a counselor, goto the police station. They'll get with the state department of child welfare, and might even get the DA for your area to issue arrest warrants, and protection orders the same day. The arrest warrant would be the best since he'd land in jail, and the DA would easily be able to show that he should be denied bail.

YOU have to do something, no one is going to know anything till you leave the house with siblings and tell them. It's a hard step, but it's one that will possibly even save your lifes.

Answer 3

This is an all too familiar story. I, too, had abuse issues that continued for about 30 years. While a law suit might cause him some damage, it wouldn't be much. He is most likely a sociopath -someone who cannot understand the feelings of others. They understand their own feelings well enough, but not anyone else's.
I myself think a law suit would just keep you down in the gutter with him. Retribution, by the law, or by the universe itself, is best left to others. To bring a law suit, you have to pay an attorney. If you run out of money, the law suit comes to a halt until you can come up with more money. Law suits take years to complete, and you are forced to keep those memories alive and fresh the entire time.

Now here's my recommendation: forgive him. Sounds shocking doesn't it? But it's not about him. You don't even have to tell him you have changed. Forgiveness is about allowing you to heal. You cannot heal when you are still looking for revenge. And you can't mature, either. So you are keeping yourself down, immature, unhealthy, stuck. That's an ugly place to be.
That's what I did. And something good came out of it. I got to know my younger brother, whom I would not have gotten to know if I had stayed in resentment and hatred. Also, an unusual thing happened to me many years later. Just 45 days before my father unexpectedly died, he apologized. He had never apologized to anyone for anything before (except if he stepped on their foot.) It made a huge difference to me. One I could not have predicted, and would not have believed if someone had told me would happen.
So I won't say that my experience will be your experience, just that forgiveness will allow you to grow as a human being. You will also be able to understand the pain of others, and offer them your experience. It's a healing experience. I'll be sending you love and wisdom and freedom from hateful feelings in my prayers.

Answer 4

Call Child Protective Services immediately.

Answer 5

omg, that is horrible. by the sounds of it, he's definitely not right in the head.
please just leave as soon as possible, before anything else happens. don't let anyone know, just convince your siblings and mam to move away. don't take anything with you, just get a load of money and get as far away as possible. if you're really worried, change your name.
after you get away from this maniac, get some therapy to get you back on your feet otherwise you'll turn into him later on in your life.
tell the police if you have to. show them all the evidence if you can, and if they don't believe you then get away from there. maybe even move country.
just remember, everyone is behind you and supports you in everything you do. good luck

Answer 6

as sad as it is.. with out police involvement you really have no proof. I'm not a professional but there should be police reports to back it up.. why would you mom stand by knowing her 2 other kids are going through this ? There are advocates out there to protect her and pd's that will help also.

Answer 7

I agree with the other posters. Get in touch with an agency that deals with domestic violence. Try to get yourself away from him, get help with the mental health issues, and have a successful life.

Answer 8

if what you say is true, then he has broken laws and you need to get in contact with police and have some real evidence. bring the civil suit later to a jury with evidence.