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Yesterday my dog got loose and my stepuncle piced the dog up and punched and kikd him then grabed him by the neck and i told him to to put the dog down and called him a scumbag the i went home without the dog a because he let the dog run away and the dog was scared then when i went inside he came inside and was sreaming in my face saying thing like im gunna have my friend beat you up being im only 15 and he is 30.THen he started spitting in my face and i told him to get out of my face then i when he kept spiitng in my face a pushed him then he said hes pressing charges so then he gat a great idea to get back in my face to tell the police i hit him again ause he was spiting after that i walked away and he decides to spit and yell and get about 2 inches from my face so i spit in his then he left and said he was telling the cops which he nvr did during this he broke my front door What would happen if i repoted him to my school because i dnt want him living here. Could i get in troble?

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1. I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice. But I am an adult, and I am concerned for you. 30 year old men have no business acting like this towards 15 year old persons, and a person of that age, acting like that, regardless of the provocation he could cite, is not demonstrating appropriate self-control. Sure, talk to your school counselors about the situation. They have training in handling these kinds of problems, and will be familiar with local resources. You shouldn't get in trouble for talking about this to your school counselors. But in order for the situation to really change at home, his behavior is going to have to change, or he's going to have to leave. Change is harder for some families, or family members, than for "normal" families. So, I'd be kidding you, if I said there wasn't likely to be any kind of fall out in your home, from you discussing this with school personnel. But that is the price of changing the situation for the better, and feeling safe. If this step-uncle is a real danger to you, as I think he might be, then you may be faced with the choice of going into foster care, which I can't usually bring myself to recommend. But foster care is better than having a guy like that do to you, what he did to that dog. Talk to your school counselors. Or, talk to a minister at a local church (doesn't matter if you don't go that church, or if you know anyone there. Ministers in recognized churches often get training in family counseling, in their seminary studies. A good minister is going to be concerned for you, first, and is not going to try to convert you to his religion before helping you. Try the Episcopal, the Methodist, the Presbyterians, or the Unitarian churches in your area, for the least doctrinaire ministers in your area.) This is too big a problem to try to handle yourself.