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    Default Mutual Battery

    My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: Utah

    I have a cousin (14) who constantly attacks me here and there and every once in a while I play along back. (I'm 18) We never have the ultimate goal of injuring one another but one time someone did get hurt and it was him. It was an accident and he accepted my apologies and such.

    Well, lately, he's being a real jerk. He constantly defaces my property, verbally assaults me constantly and also hits me if just minorly. I ask him to stop on several occasions and my parents just tell me to deal with it.

    Recently, he keeps threatening to press charges against me because I accidentally hurt him a while ago (Four Months Ago). He constantly says, "If you even just make a scratch on me, I'll press charges and you'll go to jail." Is there nothing I can do to stop him from destroying my property and attacking me? He never attacks me to the extent to where I need to hit him back in self defense but he constantly does it because he knows he can get away with it. The accident was 4 months ago and there were no other witnesses though he constantly claims that there is a dent in his ribs which I am positive was already there.

    He told me a while ago that he's gotten in some fights at school so I have a hard time believing him when he says I did it, but irregardless, it not only worries me to no end, but it aggravates me equally.

    I want to know if I'm safe from being charged.
    I also want to know what the best course of action is to get him to stop.

    I don't want to file charges against him, but I fear if he does press charges that countersuing seems bad in a way. What's worse is he's a minor and I'm not and I know that courts like to favor the minor.

    I need help ;__;

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    Default Re: Mutual Battery

    You're a grown-up. He's a child. If he's not much fun to be around any more, stop hanging out with him.

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