SadMarxist

https://gogetfunding.com/BringSoraHome/

Note: donating to them on gogetfunding will result in 10% of donations not going to them due to how the website works. Also, be wary of donating too much all at once.

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Unfortunately, it seems that they lost the court case, but they will not give up and they will not stop until their son comes back to them. Please help in any way you can.

Content warning for child abuse mention in original post and title.

Edit: The original poster has deleted the post.

Direct PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

Content warning for a legal case involving their child being abused by another person.

Context: They have reached the goal and will be able to hire a solicitor (assuming all goes well), but they need additional funds for the costs after a solicitor is hired, so please donate and share if you can. Also, they have not updated their GoGetFunding to reflect the new goal reached above, so that is why the total amount donated is different.

This part is not from the update post but is important nonetheless and comes from the person in question (aeronmelon): "The GoGetFunding site was made so people outside of Lemmy could see and help (and also to show that our need is legitimate). But every donation made through them costs at least 10% to withdrawal. Which method you use to help us is, of course, up to you. Just FYI."

If you are able, please donate through PayPal.

Context: the original poster deleted their posts

Direct PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

Content warning for mention of child abuse in original post

Original post: https://lemmy.today/post/53128161

This part is not from the update post but is important nonetheless and comes from the person in question (aeronmelon): "The GoGetFunding site was made so people outside of Lemmy could see and help (and also to show that our need is legitimate). But every donation made through them costs at least 10% to withdrawal. Which method you use to help us is, of course, up to you. Just FYI." If you are able, please donate through PayPal.

Update post: "Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, we’re almost a third of the way there, but time has effectively run out and it becomes less and less of a possibility that the solicitor will even be willing to take the case with each passing day. We’re hoping for a miracle at this point.

Nothing much else has changed, my wife’s solicitor keeps demanding information from me while herself failing to communicate anything other than vague threats of having me arrested for prioritizing my son’s health and welfare above a deliberately tight court schedule. To my surprise, the people at the Irish Courts area actually very friendly and very helpful towards us because they know I’m not familiar with Irish law.

After living in America, then in Japan, living in a country where the people of law enforcement and government are kind and patient and understanding with us feels too good to be true.

There’s almost nothing else I can do at this point but wait and see what happens. Please keep sharing this post and the crowdfunding link with people you know, we extremely appreciate your support in this."

Direct PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

(Content Warning for abuse towards child)

Edit: It turns out that according to the fundraiser's creator, it takes 10% off of any donations given to "gogetfunding", and the money received does not immediately become theirs. The paypal link is https://www.paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

(€1083/€10,000 was the amount donated the last time I checked, though according to the father of the child victim, they received slightly more than that since then; they will add this amount to the fundraiser once they get the time to).

I have no job and I cannot stand my parents do to past actions, so I have to go homeless.

Content warning for child abuse mention. Also, everything below is from someone else.

Link to the the latter post: https://lemmy.zip/post/64352644

"Some of you may remember me. Back in October 2025, I was desperately seeking assistance to leave Japan due to the growing inability to care for my son after my wife was abusive towards both of us and then abandoned us in the hopes we would come crawling back to her.

To all of those people that helped me back them, thank you so very much. But now he’s in more danger than ever before.

Copied post from elsewhere:

My name is Aeron, and I had previously been an English teacher in Japan, which is also where my now four-year-old son was born. Despite my best efforts to prevent it, me and my wife began having marital trouble which led to every parent’s worst nightmare; my son was physically and emotionally abused at the age of seven months at the hands of my wife’s parents in an attempt to separate him from me inside my own apartment. He was abused again at the age of two at my wife’s hands. After this, me and my son lived separately from her, hoping to find some way to repair things and continue to be a family in spite of everything. But things only got worse from there. Instead of sitting down and working things out, my wife spent a year and a half threatening us with police and legal action, taking efforts to prevent me from providing medical care and schooling for my son, and being verbally abusive to me. Then she disappeared from our lives altogether. I tried going on alone but the Japanese government refused me any kind of assistance. Things reached a point where the only way to properly care for my then three-year-old son was to seek asylum in another country. We have been in Ireland for six month now. He now has proper medical coverage, goes to school, has made real friends, and we are both finally starting to recover from our prolonged trauma. However, once my wife found out, she began pursuing us in Irish court claiming child abduction. Because we’re still on financial support, I had to rely on free legal aid to represent myself. In spite of being shown evidence of abuse, abandonment, and my wife expressing mental instability and suicidal thoughts, the court is ruling in her favor and wasting no time preparing to forcibly deport my still recovering son back to Japan to be placed in the care of the woman who abused him in the first place. We need your help to secure proper legal representation to prevent this miscarriage of justice.

It is unreal how the people of Ireland have cared for us and helped us at a level that I was so not used to that it made me feel embarrassed to accept it, while at the same time the Irish Courts seem to be mimicking the Japanese authorities in condemning us for daring to escape domestic violence.

Please help us, please help him! We have finally gotten medical confirmation that both of us are suffering physical manifestations of our trauma. This evidence will be presented to the court, but only if I can pay for a private solicitor.

Additionally, as of this moment we have no representation in the courts, and I have to file a notice of appeal on my own. To do this, I have to perform a cartoonishly-bizarre dance of finding childcare for my son where we live and then traveling halfway across the country to appear in court in-person to present the notice on time. Even if I pull it off, there’s no guarantee that the judge will grant a hearing, so this is the closest to complete failure I’ve ever come as a father.

I immediately need ~€200 just to make the journey this coming Monday. Thank you!

After that, I will need upwards to €25,000 to cover the cost of legal fees. But that can be collected over time.

I will continue to update this post (and make new posts) as things progress. Thank you all again, for being there when we needed you and thank you all for helping us again to escape this living nightmare.

And if anyone reading this just so happens to know someone in Ireland who can help me with the urgent need for childcare and travel, please DM me. I need to arrange things THIS WEEKEND, despite it being a holiday weekend.

Direct PayPal link (The old Japanese PayPal account is dead): paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

If you want to make a Western Union transfer, please DM me for my contact details.

Please feel free to reply or DM me with questions or advice.

6/5 Update:

Thanks to some very quick help, I succeeded in filing the notice of appeal on time. It was something of a miracle that I managed to pull it off. The money I generously received was just enough to take care of everything. Thank you very much, you all know who. Now that that part is taken care of I can focus on getting a new solicitor.

I have no idea how much it will cost (or how much I will need up front) but the research I’ve done so far says that family law cases in Ireland can run up to €25,000. When I get a more accurate figure, I’ll update the post. For now, that’s the goal. Same for when I find out how much I need up front.

Please help us in any way you can. Please share this post with anyone you think can help out. We both appreciate it very much.

If you want more information about what is happening, I’ll share what I can. If you have any question or can offer help in another way, please DM me. Thank’s everyone. It still feels dire, but we’re making progress thanks to you. :)

Direct PayPal link (The old Japanese PayPal account is dead): paypal.me/TheGreenMelon"

(Update from the poster)

The good news is I’m finally getting some solicitors to call back with a yes. The bad news, the upfront costs is €10,000 at the lowest. With an expectation that it will be €30,000 when all is said and done.

I have received a few donations, thank you as always, but I need to raise at least €10,000 as soon as humanly possible because (whichever one it ends up being) needs to start working immediately. The hearing is only a month away, and there are smaller deadlines before then that need to be met.

I hope enough people can help me over the weekend so I can get someone to start on Monday. Please let me know if you can help. Thank you so very much.

Here is the link to their account: https://www.tumblr.com/moooome Also, the text below is from them (I could not repost it because it went into my inbox).

"moooome asked:

don’t know how to say this without feeling a weight in my chest.

We lost our home, our safety, and the life we once knew 🏠💔

Since then, every day has felt uncertain, like we’re trying to stand on something that could fall apart at any moment.

I’m still holding on to my dream of continuing my education, and at the same time trying to be strong for my family… but the truth is, it’s getting harder.

This campaign is not about comfort.

It’s about stability, dignity, and simply being able to breathe without constant fear 🤍

We are trying to reach £2,500, and we’re close… but not there yet.

This last step feels the hardest.

If you’re reading this, please don’t pass us by.

Even the smallest support can help us reach this point and keep going 🙏

Your kindness could truly make the difference for us 🤍"