My brother (22) is in jail for allegedly assaulting his gf (42) of two months. She was left with 6 broken ribs and a liver contusion. I don’t want my parents to bond him out, and I’ve taken steps to prevent them from doing so. BACKSTORY: I am one year older than my brother, growing up we had a good relationship until highschool. We went to separate highschools, but we lived in the same house and have the same parents. My brother began using drugs in highschool, “harmless” weed and drinking alcohol. He became apathetic towards school and eventually dropped out to pursue his GED. As a brother with only one more year of life experience, I’ve tried to help him out however I could with advice, but he never would take it seriously. Fast forward… after he (17 at the time) got in a physical altercation with my mother, who can be very verbally and physically abusive, my father (who is not 73) and him moved away to an apartment around his 18th birthday. I had briefly moved away to Georgia to pursue education and work in the music industry. That didn’t work out as I hoped but that’s beside the point. Weeks before I left for GA I had found out that he had run away from my dads place and somehow gotten ahold of my dads banking information and stole 3 grand from him, my mom, and even $1000 from my college account. The day I found out was my mother’s birthday, that day I tracked him down and beat the snot out of him and recovered a large chunk of the cash. He had already spent about $500. Fast forward, I’m living in GA for a year and during that year he had pushed my elderly father down in the street, fought my brother in law after slapping our older sister (my younger brother slapped her), and subsequently shot a rifle at my sisters home where my brother in law and niece and nephew were sitting in the living room watching TV. Luckily no one was hit, yet he denies this to this day… fast forward again. I came back to my home state and reenrolled in a state college, I found myself in my own legal troubles but in my case I was acting in self defense, the legal question was whether I had used too much force.. I don’t believe I did but I accepted a lesser charge plea deal for probation. My blood was boiling with resentment. How could my brother do all of these things to our own family no less, and not have once seen a day in court?! Anyways… over the past 4 years in addition to the terrible things he’s done, he has totaled over 6 cars and 4 of them happened to be cars that my father purchased. 1 as a gift for my brother and the subsequent 3 were my dads cars that he loaned to my brother. 3 of the 4 cars were paid off at the time of the crashes, and yes alcohol was usually involved. During all of this chaos, I had gotten married to a woman I thought was the one, yesss young and dumb I know… but after we split, I came to find out that my brother has been hitting on her relentlessly via Instagram messages. He’s always been a creep, you can’t trust him around girls and definitely not around your exes… I’ve even heard that he’s raped a few girls but I’m not sure about that as I wouldn’t know…. But I wouldn’t put it past him… PRESENT DAY: he is sitting in jail with enough charges to put him in prison for a minimum of 7 years because there was a deadly weapon involved. He claims he is innocent, and he has evidence to prove it on his social media and text messages, if he could “just get out to prove it”. I’ve helped my parents find him a good lawyer but this lawyer isn’t cheap, about 8 grand. My dad was going to bond him out, his bond is 100k 10% or $10,000, but after seeing a summary of the evidence against him, I advised my dad to hold off, my dad listened to my advice. Now I know there may be a chance that I will never see my brother again after this if he is sentenced to prison, 7 years minimum is a hell of a long time and I have a year long healthy relationship with a beautiful woman inside and out, and I doubt I’ll stick around this place much longer. Part of me understands how jail feels, it’s terrible, and I understand how bad he wants to get out, but when I got out of jail I was able to gather damming evidence in my defense disproving the “victims” lies. That’s because the evidence existed. I still keep a copy of the videos that helped me just incase I ever need it again… anyways, the list of evidence the prosecutors brought against my brother includes the text message chats that he claims could help him. I think that he’s lying like always. Part of me hates him, part of me feels bad for him because he has unmedicated schizophrenia and I believe he may have FAS because my mom drank with him, but hell, she drank with me too, and I don’t act anything like him. A part of me wants him to rot in jail for as long as possible to rid the world of such a destructive soul for as long as possible. The main issue is that I think he will run from the law, just long enough to have my dads money lost and taken by the court, and maybe even commit new offenses, I know he would get caught eventually because he’s just not the brightest bulb in the room. I don’t want him to hurt our family any more than he has, or anyone else for that matter. So Reddit, AMITAH for preventing my brother from being bonded out of jail?