My Brother Wants To Tell People About Being Sexually Assaulted As A Child.

Hello everyone, I'm sorry if this is hard to understand but I'm shaking and really honestly so so angry and upset. I, 18(M) have a little brother 16(M) who we'll call brother for confidentiality. Location: PA, USA, and my question is about the legality of his confession, because we're currently being threatened with legal action. For context, and this is upsetting, but this happened when we were little kids. He was 8 and I was 10, and the one taking the lawsuit, our cousin (currently 18(F)) was also 10. For added context, my brother is trans at the time was a presenting female.

Our cousin has always been incredibly odd and toxic. We already had a rough life with an incredibly abusive and controlling father, who would hit us and threaten us constantly. For that reason, we lived with our mothers (we don't have the same mother). To meet our father we would have to go to my grandmother's house because that's where he would stay over with us when it was his weekend. Our cousin lived at our granmothers house, so we would see her anytime we had to stay over.

Our cousin is fucked up mentally. She is fully functioning, not mentally impaired in any way, she was just brutal, terrible, and disgusting. She was caught multiple times watching animals in inappropriate ways, she assaulted their family dog, and many other disgusting things, but the worst part was the attempted incest. She would constantly berate me and her other cousins and even siblings with sexual questions, comments, and try to encourage them to engage in those activities with her.

She flashed me and tried to get me to expose myself in multiple occasions, but I thought I was the only one she was doing it to. I was so so incredibly wrong. It turns out that once I made it clear I wasn't interested, she turned her attention to brother. She would make them watch porn, ask them to touch her, and other gross and sexual things. She would show them things she used to masturbate, attempt to masturbate with them next to her, and even encouraged zoophile. When brother told her no or tried to leave, she would hit him or shove him into the closet and lock the door. This all happened during sleepovers, when the boys were separated from the girls via locked bedrooms because our family is fucking mental.

This escalated very quickly to full rape and heavier forms of sexual torture. My brother has tried to commit suicide over 15 times since he was 10. He dropped out of school, locked himself away, starved himself, blamed himself, and refused to talk about this with anyone until he was around 12. After years of this nightmare. When he told me about it, completely melting down, I was lost. I knew cousin was weird and gross, but I had no idea just how terrible and fuckig disgusting she was to brother. It was around this time (2 years ago) that my siblings all decided to cut contact with that side of the family because of their abusive and manipulative tendencies, and we all have scars from it. We've fought them in court, Facebook, privately, through DM and through public slandering on social media many, many times. They call us sensitive and delusional and we tell people what they did to us. They always end up deleting their provoking and bashing when the people decide they're the bad ones.

Well, after finally starting to go back to school, going 6 months without SH relapse, and not shaking and vomiting at the emotion of cousins name, my brother decided he needed all of cousins friends and family to know why it was he hated cousin so much. So he tagged their account and publicly called them out for sexual assault and rape. He was too scared to talk to her directly, and asked us all if we thought it was a good idea. All four of our siblings supported the decision. It turns out she had tried similar things with all of us, from our 24 year old sister to my brother. This is where the legality comes into play.

Immidiately people began commenting, utterly horrified by the things brother described. I won't go into any detail whatsoever, but brother provided a link describing the sexual torture for anyone who wanted to know just how horrifying it truly was. And as soon as the post started gaining traction, a group appeared in the comments. 5-10 people went through each post and thoroughly insulted, blamed, and condemned brother for "talking like a baby ass bitch and blaming a kid for being curious". They said that because brother was 8 and cousin was 10 it wasn't serious, and there was no reason to "bring up the past"

The entire group began messaging my brother in private and making fun of him, telling him cousin has a bright future and telling him that he's selfish to try and take it away. They say that they were just kids and repeatedly threatened to report and call the police on my brother for harassment. They even went so far as to publicly shout out brothers private accounts online calling him a liar. Then cousin got involved directly. She left multiple comments on every post laughing at brother and saying things like "what are you gonna do about it, you have no proof ????" and threatening police and a lawsuit as well. Brother is 16, he has no legal backing or money to handle a lawsuit. He also has no physical proof because they were children. Since then the posts were removed on every platform for either harassment or misinformation.

I even personally DM'd multiple of these people shaming them for victim blaming and taking the side of someone who admits they raped another child when they were young, and they all responded with the same answers of no proof, so young, bright future, etc. They threaten to involve the side of the family we have no contact with, and have screenshotted all the posts (without their comments making fun of him), and since the posts are down there's no proof of their comments either. I feel like I'm going to throw up. I feel so fucking angry, angrier than I ever have before in my life. She raped my little brother, she caused him irreversible harm to his life and mental health and has the audacity to laugh in his face and threaten and pressure him into never revealing what she's done. I need to know what the fuck to do. Would police actually try to stop us from sharing this?? If they follow through with the lawsuit, is my brother safe?