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00:00I chose to barricade because I was afraid for my life.
00:05Basically, it was an impulse decision.
00:08Like, if we're doing it, we need to go now.
00:11I run downstairs, I go into our food stores, granola bars, ramen noodles.
00:15I brought in a lot of clothes, my Xbox, my guitar.
00:18I had an emergency ladder in that room, I had a fire extinguisher in that room.
00:22We ran downstairs, we grabbed boards.
00:25We had two by sixes, because I knew I needed barricading the door.
00:31Took the plank, and then we were in.
00:37At this point, the court is trying to force me and my sister to live with my father,
00:42and I just did not want to leave my mother's house.
00:44This is for real, guys.
00:49This is for real.
00:53I mean, I don't think I would cut a hole in this closet just to be able to get to
01:00the bathroom if it wasn't real.
01:02I came home, and when I went to take them up something, I realized they were barricaded.
01:10I remember her coming upstairs, knocking on the door, trying to open it, but then realizing it was locked.
01:15They basically told me they weren't coming out.
01:17I've been going through this court case since I was 10 years old, and I need to alert people, like,
01:23on the record that I'm calling out for help.
01:25And there we go.
01:26The court thought that this was my last opportunity to have a relationship with my biological father again,
01:31so they're putting me through this reunification process.
01:34This is the real reason I am terrified for my life, if they take me.
01:39Going to a reunification camp with no contact from my mom for 90 days.
01:44Me and him both were really, really scared.
01:47They were just in a complete state of panic.
02:00Holy crap, the police just arrived.
02:02They're upstairs, so...
02:03Are they in the same room together right now?
02:05Yep.
02:08Hello?
02:09This is Mom.
02:10The police are here.
02:12Hey, Mike, can you open the door so I can talk to you?
02:14Can we talk like this, please?
02:16Uh, it's easier to talk with the door open.
02:18Mr. Police, don't do anything to us. We're just very scared.
02:23I'm not going to do anything to hurt you guys, but I do have to take you to your dad.
02:28The judge did sign that order, so I need you guys to open the door and come with me.
02:33The order does let us use reasonable force unless you guys have a house.
02:37They were right there.
02:38They were just about to take us.
02:42And then they decided not to.
02:44Hey, Ty?
02:45Brittany?
02:45I talked to my lieutenant.
02:47They don't want us kicking in doors and dragging you guys out of the house because that's not really fair.
02:50Okay?
02:50Okay.
02:51Thank you guys for trying to dismiss.
02:54Thank you so much.
02:54No problem.
02:54You guys have a good night, okay?
02:56Hope you get stuff figured out.
02:58My emotional state was swinging.
02:59How long am I going to be in this room?
03:01How long am I going to last?
03:02We didn't know how long we were going to be in there.
03:05It just made us feel like we were alone.
03:07I knew the court wasn't going to listen.
03:10As long as if I was live streaming, I wouldn't be taken.
03:14That's when I started going live every single day.
03:17I would get up and then sit at my computer.
03:19The reason why we were barricaded in here is because they can force us to our father's house.
03:26I had, I think, a total of like 400 people the first day.
03:29This will now be day two of us just being locked in here.
03:32Me and my sister, us just trying to stay safe.
03:34I chopped a hole through the bathroom.
03:37It's small for me.
03:39And yeah, so in here we got our little cooking area right here and then our bathroom.
03:47Every day felt like a loop.
03:49Today is day three of me being locked in my bedroom.
03:52Taking pictures with my camera.
03:54I remember there was being a routine.
03:56I would do the dishes in our sink.
03:58And every morning I would make myself ramen.
04:01Brinley, flip the pancake.
04:03I'm alive again.
04:04I just reset my live stream, guys.
04:06Hello guys, welcome back.
04:07I'm alive again.
04:07It's now been day six, almost seven that they have not taken me to police.
04:13Nothing I could say or do was making them feel comfortable.
04:17Even to come out and just be in the living room.
04:20I eat when my parents bring me food and they put it outside the door.
04:26As far as food, fuck yeah, I sent my kids food.
04:29I wasn't going to let them starve.
04:31Food was just delivered to us.
04:33I would get them Subway.
04:35I would smash it down and I would shove it under the door.
04:39I streamed 24-7, never stopped it.
04:42I was up until like the 3 a.m.
04:44And about 50 people that were living in Australia and watched me during the night.
04:49And then the people that were in America would wake up and watch all the time.
04:53Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky.
04:55Thank you guys for all joining.
04:57Thank you for the 268 people in here.
05:002,000 people are watching right now.
05:03Hi.
05:04I just got my first little delivery.
05:06The only thing that could fit under the door was stickers.
05:10The school does know I'm not attending.
05:14They're pretty worried.
05:15They are worried.
05:16The hardest thing was for me hearing my mom's voice.
05:19And I'd stick my finger through the door.
05:21And I remember my mom would hold my fingers and she would just rub them.
05:24And that's how we would hug.
05:26I would just sit outside their door and just like talk to them.
05:29Try to get them to open their window.
05:30Try to get them to get some exercise.
05:33Life in the barricades, it's hard.
05:35I'll say that it's hard not seeing people and not leaving.
05:38Before that, I was never on TikTok.
05:41That is just, I'm way more of an introvert.
05:44That's just not my personality.
05:46For some reason, they don't want me to stay with my mom.
05:50They're trying to get my dad his rights because he never was convicted.
05:54I saw the comments pouring in like, is this real?
05:58Is this kid for real?
05:59If you guys don't believe me, I completely get it.
06:01The court isn't even believing me.
06:03It was a mixture of panic, but also mama bear.
06:08And so that's when I got on TikTok.
06:10Hey, everybody.
06:11I've promised I would be real with everybody.
06:15And this is real.
06:16I am still trying to be a mom and be there for Ty and Brynn.
06:25I have not left the house in four weeks.
06:28For like the first month, it was so incredibly hard.
06:31Ty and Brynn are on Twitch.
06:33If you don't know how to find them on Twitch, there is a video on my page.
06:39I stream nonstop.
06:41I had like 8,000 people watching or something.
06:44Thank you guys all for so many comments and they really help more than you'll ever know.
06:50I don't know when it clicked for Ty, but I remember sitting there one day and I was like,
06:54we have this set of people that are here for us.
06:58They watched every live stream, even through the night, just to make sure we were safe.
07:02I'm just one little voice.
07:04But then once it turns into 50,000 voices, 100,000 voices, that's where it changes.
07:10We kind of had almost a miracle.
07:14Our story just was one that people were interested in.
07:24For the last three years, I've been focusing on stories in family court.
07:30And those who have been silenced by systems that are bigger than they are.
07:34And frequently that is kids.
07:37I found Ty and Brinley's case on TikTok.
07:42When I first met Ty, he was desperate to speak for himself,
07:45to tell the world in his own voice what he was up against
07:49and why he felt the court system was silencing him.
07:52We have like a full barricade in front of our door.
07:54Like this, it's all boarded up.
07:57While the story that he was presenting to many people might have seemed unbelievable,
08:02I knew exactly what he was talking about.
08:06At that point in time, I had spent months reporting on how parental alienation
08:13was being used as an argument in courts to influence custody decisions.
08:19Now, when a child comes forward and says, I've been abused, you have a couple of options.
08:24You can either believe they're telling the truth or you can believe that there's somebody convincing them to not tell
08:29the truth.
08:30The hardest thing about it is just people not believing you and then thinking you're just going insane.
08:37The DCFS didn't believe us.
08:39Yeah, DCFS did.
08:40What stood out to me about Ty and Bryn's case was that there was a finding by Child Protective Services
08:47that abuse was chronic and severe.
08:51And then all of a sudden, the focus in the courtroom shifted from abuse to parental alienation.
08:57People are starting to kind of accuse our mom.
09:01But people just try to change the blame all the time.
09:03There was a ticking time bomb. The judge in Provo had given police permission to take these kids using reasonable
09:12force from their home
09:14and return them into their dad's care.
09:15These kids could only resist for so long.
09:18After Hannah Dreyfuss came in with ProPublica, it went all across the country.
09:24According to ProPublica, the Utah's Division of Child and Family Services, they found that in 2018, both siblings...
09:29And it just got crazy, crazy, really fast.
09:36At one point, one of our sons went in and said,
09:39you guys only know half of the story. You don't know the whole story.
09:42And they published his address and his name.
09:46Jessica started posting so many TikTok videos, one after another.
09:51And they were, in my view, horrific.
09:54Some of the TikToks are a little diabolical.
09:56I'll be honest, I probably could have, like, toned it down a little.
09:58But also, I was going through active trauma.
10:01Bitches ain't shit and they ain't saying nothing.
10:05A hundred motherfuckers can't tell me nothing.
10:07I'm sure I made mistakes. And for those, I can apologize.
10:11But I don't have regrets.
10:13Jessica was seen as responsible for the kids being barricaded in their room.
10:19Good morning, everybody. This morning, we've got muffins, pistachios, Ty's protein shake.
10:26Now, if you're thinking, I'm Wonder Mom and I got up this tired and made muffins.
10:31I did not. Make-ahead meals are the best thing.
10:34She was gathering a following. She put a TikTok shop together where she was selling products.
10:39This viral TikTok shop jumper is awesome.
10:45People threw heavy accusations at her for allowing her kids to publicize this court case in the way that she
10:54did.
10:55This legal bill I saw was $25,000.
10:59My mom has never been the type of person to beg or take help from anybody.
11:02Please go in my links and check the ways that you guys can support.
11:05The psychological abuse that was going on with those children in that home was horrible.
11:11Like, when I'd go to bed, I'd turn on the Twitch and see how the kids were.
11:15It was kind of nice to hear their voices and stuff.
11:18But there were times when they were fighting.
11:19Oh, my gosh. No way. You did push it under there.
11:22What? No.
11:24They were siblings locked in a room in a horrible situation,
11:26and they should not have to go through this.
11:28Why is life so cruel?
11:31We are doing a call for action.
11:33We have a protest coming up at the Utah State Capitol two weeks from today.
11:38Please come help us support Ty and Bryn's army.
11:42Jessica's followers were streaming protests at the Capitol at Michelle Jones' office.
11:47You know what they say about it on the internet?
11:50I used to watch it all the time, but then I just, like, I'm tired of this.
11:54Michelle Jones, are you watching this?
11:56We're coming for you next, sweet cheeks.
11:58I've had it with your shit. I've had it with your lies.
12:02They had rallied just kind of crazy people that were ready to fight and defend Ty and Bryn's army.
12:07Tell the truth.
12:09You know, it's really tempting to get into the battle.
12:12You know, it's just hard enough on my son that he didn't want to be in the fight.
12:17He's not a fighter.
12:18Unless you guys do something now to fix this situation, we are coming for you.
12:24Psychologically, it's taken its toll on him.
12:27And that's why I'm here, and he's not here.
12:30When somebody is attacking your child, that's when Mama Bear steps up and says, no, you're not going to do
12:37that.
12:37The protest of the fourth district court in American Fork happening today in support of two children fighting against the
12:43court ordered reunification with their father.
12:46The people of Utah were upset.
12:48Two years ago, my dad went to jail for domestic violence.
12:52Let me go back with my abusers.
12:54It's so obvious that he doesn't care about me or how I feel.
12:57What I saw happening was that kids were taking a TikTok to challenge an authority that many assumed could not
13:04be challenged.
13:05We need to let this court know that their actions are not okay.
13:08It was a moment of seeing how powerful could social media be.
13:13We at that time really thought that the court system would work, that they would see what was going on.
13:18But after the social media got involved, they cowered.
13:22The judge and the commissioner cowered.
13:24Fire, Judge Poland! Fire, Judge Poland!
13:53Fire, Judge Poland!
14:02When two kids feel strong enough to barricade in a bedroom, trial is what we will have to face.
14:09And that is what we will do.
14:13We're just getting here to court, terrified.
14:19Please pray for us.
14:26The Honorable Judge Poland presiding.
14:28Thank you very much.
14:29Mr. Wilkinson, you may call your first witness.
14:32Your honor would call Brent Larson for this act.
14:35Mr. Larson, if you would face the clerk, raise your right hand, take an oath to tell the truth.
14:42Do you state your name for the rector?
14:44My name is Brent Joel Larson.
14:46And why are you here at court?
14:48I'm here fighting for my friends.
14:53And why are you here for your children?
14:55I feel like they're in harm.
14:59How do you know Brent Larson?
15:01From seeing her in my office.
15:03What did Brent disclose to you?
15:05That he had repetitively placed his fingers inside her vagina to apply ointment in places inside her, not just on
15:14the outer portion of her.
15:16Sandra, where do you work?
15:17I work for the Department of Health and Human Services.
15:20Do you recall which findings were supported?
15:23I remember there was a lewdness finding that was supported.
15:28There was an emotional abuse finding that was supported.
15:33And I think the rest were unsupported.
15:37There's been a lot of talk about substantiated findings by DCFS, and I think that that's often misunderstood.
15:44When they have a forensic interview, they're asked to tell the truth, and that's the best that we can do.
15:49Even with supported DCFS findings, I needed proof of him doing it in the act.
15:55And that almost never exists.
15:58I'm innocent until proven guilty, and nobody has found me guilty.
16:02I've been innocent of everything.
16:04Who do you know?
16:06Brent Larson. I was his second wife, now ex-wife.
16:11The trial was really difficult for BJ, and it was especially difficult when Sandy had come in.
16:16He was very hard on Ty.
16:19His father would laugh at him if he cried a lot of times, and mock him, because he's a boy.
16:28Did he call him sissy?
16:31Sissy were similar names of that nature, yes.
16:36No. BJ was never emotionally abusive to Ty.
16:39You know, wanting to make him a man or whatever, you know.
16:42And it's like, no, he was a good dad.
16:45He was a good example of a dad for Ty.
16:48Who will we be hearing from first this morning?
16:51We'll hear from a child, Ty.
16:57You said that your father abused you when you were a child?
17:00Yes, physically, mentally, and sexually.
17:03And how did he physically abuse you?
17:05Touching me in my bed at nighttime.
17:07Ultimately, sometime in April of 2019, you confronted your father during an ATF's visit, correct?
17:13Correct.
17:14You said some pretty harsh things.
17:16Yes.
17:17He actually told me straight up, I am not scared of you anymore.
17:21My mom said, I can tell you whatever I want.
17:24Mr. Lilly reinforced that he was proud of you for doing that.
17:28He was proud that I was able to stand up for my feelings.
17:31The trial was brutal, and I was basically felt like I was interrogated.
17:35In sessions, Mr. Lilly would ask you to try to remember memories, correct?
17:40Yeah.
17:41To tell you there are more memories for you to remember.
17:43He never told me that there was more memories to remember.
17:46Okay.
17:47It's just, I would always tell him, I feel like there's something that I'm not remembering.
17:51And he would try to help me by like, by drawing, by listening to music, by just trying to work
17:59that side of the brain to try to get them out.
18:01Tell me what positive memories you have of your father.
18:04Not many.
18:05Well, then it should be easy for you to remember the few.
18:10This trial is for sure a game.
18:11It's a game being played with my life on the line.
18:15What consequences did you give Ty for refusing to participate in the therapeutic parent time?
18:21I didn't give Ty consequences at that time.
18:24Can I ever fully say I did not drive a wedge between the kids and Brent by reporting abuse?
18:29But that was never my intention.
18:32You want this case to trend, correct?
18:36To get awareness, sure.
18:38You've made negative comments about Brent in the TikTok, correct?
18:42I don't think they're negative.
18:43Because they're true?
18:45Truthful.
18:46So something, if it's truthful, it can't be negative in your mind.
18:50Sometimes the truth is unflattering, Mr. Wilkinson.
18:53Is that a yes?
18:54I don't know what he's talking about, so I can't...
18:57Can I ask the question again?
18:59Are your parents also paying your attorney's fees?
19:02Yes.
19:03In fact, if it wasn't for my parents, we wouldn't be here.
19:07In terms of meeting his financial needs, do you know how he is meeting those?
19:13We have been helping him with that.
19:14He struggles.
19:16He struggles really a lot.
19:17As far as him working and being able to function out, you know, where we live, it was not a
19:23possibility.
19:24And are you willing to continue to provide financially for the children if they're in his custody?
19:29Yes, we are.
19:30Mr. Larson, I know this has been a difficult process over the course of the last five years.
19:34Is there a reason you haven't just walked away?
19:37You know, there have been many times I've thought that, to be honest with you.
19:41But the real reason is, is these kids cannot, they cannot grow up thinking that their father abused them in
19:49all these horrific ways, and they're all untrue.
20:03Jessica?
20:04Hey, how are you?
20:06So, I'm sitting in front of the 124-page order, and it's granting you full custody.
20:15But Brent is still given visitation.
20:20Yeah.
20:22The judge has come to the conclusion that there wasn't enough evidence that Brent sexually abused Ty and Bryn, and
20:31you interfered with the reunification therapy and encouraged the barricade.
20:37I didn't even know the barricade was going to happen in the first place.
20:41Yeah.
20:44Today is rough.
20:48It's heavy.
20:50It feels like a punch in the gut.
20:55I do think it is worth noting to the kids that it's better than it could have been.
21:01Yeah.
21:19I think Bryn Lee is going to take it the hardest.
21:26Hey, packages!
21:27Did you have fun?
21:28Yeah.
21:29Have fun seeing Grandpa?
21:30I know.
21:31Well, we're Ty.
21:32I feel like it's going to be a huge blow, so I'm not sure how they're going to respond or
21:36take it.
21:40Sometimes I think the universe hits you with something because it has to, because it makes a bigger impact.
21:50I just have to hold on to faith for that.
21:52I have to.
21:54I have to.
22:01What are you going to tell me?
22:03I'm going to tell you.
22:07I'm going to tell you.
22:09Your dad did not get custody.
22:14I still have custody.
22:16Okay.
22:17Okay?
22:18But?
22:21Supervised visitation starts this Thursday.
22:23Nope.
22:25No.
22:26Let me continue.
22:27No.
22:28No, I know, but let me just...
22:29No, you are not.
22:30Just listen to Mother right now, okay?
22:32No, I can't.
22:35Bryn Lee, just be quiet.
22:36Can I just...
22:37I just have to...
22:37I have to at least tell you...
22:39No.
22:40Hey, hey, hey.
22:41Leave me alone.
22:42Hey, I know, but you can't run away.
22:44Yep.
22:44I need to go outside for a second.
22:46I know, listen.
22:46Just a second.
22:46I know, listen.
22:49No.
22:50No, I'm leaving right now.
22:51No, I'm leaving right now.
22:52Bryn Lee, you can't run away.
22:54Oh, okay.
22:54You can go into your room and have as much space as you need, okay?
23:09We should have ran away at the very beginning.
23:14This isn't something we can just run away from, though.
23:17You can.
23:27Today is when they are supposed to have their first supervised visit since the barricade with their dad.
23:35Ty has been very sick this week with anxiety and shaking and nausea.
23:43Right now, Ty is giving indications that he's not going to go.
23:50Bryn is on the fence.
23:56I'm proud of you for being willing to go.
23:58I don't really want to go.
24:00I'm still so proud of you.
24:03I'm doing it for Ty.
24:06No.
24:11People checked and thought I heard a card.
24:13Let me see.
24:26Okay, it looks like he's going to come here.
24:41Are you okay to get in with your grandma and grandpa?
24:44Hi.
24:45Hi, how are you?
24:46Hi, Bryn. Do you remember me?
24:48Yeah.
24:49So, we just try to figure out what's going on.
24:51My brother's not coming.
24:53Okay.
24:53Is he home?
24:54Yeah.
24:55He's home.
24:56He's also feeling sick.
24:57Completely.
24:58He locked himself in the bathroom, so.
25:01You would think trial would have improved the whole situation for everybody.
25:04And it just didn't.
25:07For several months, Bryn decided to cooperate with visitation.
25:11And, you know, some visits I think were okay.
25:16It was just up and down, roller coaster.
25:19One visit would be really good.
25:20And if it was really good, then the next visit was not.
25:22Do you want to walk up there with me, Mom?
25:24No.
25:25Just stay here.
25:26But if you cannot remove the child from the source that is causing the problems, you know,
25:32it turns out the same every time.
25:36Hello.
25:36Hi there.
25:38So, supposedly, she's saying she's not coming.
25:41Okay.
25:42I don't know what the answer is and how you get these children away from these toxic parents.
25:48I don't know.
25:53All I want to do is just get out of this and become a freaking adult and do my own
25:56thing.
26:09So, I just turned 17 two months ago now, which my emancipation hearing was on my birthday.
26:20Ty filed for emancipation, which means he's trying to essentially divorce his dad and I and be on his own.
26:31I'm currently in the process of moving out.
26:36He just packed up and announced he was leaving.
26:41I'm moving out of my house to save myself and to prove to the court that I can live on
26:47my own.
26:48I begged him, like ugly cry sobbing, but I knew there was nothing I could do to keep him here.
26:56Ty and I were like really best buddies and then he left.
26:59I started crying. I was so sad.
27:06Yeah, it's been really tough.
27:09What I saw in Utah was two battles being fought.
27:17One was the personal battle of Ty and Brinley.
27:22On the other hand, I saw the battle of larger systemic change.
27:31Our sincere intent is to recognize and prevent harm to children.
27:37The courts have been used as a weapon.
27:39Children have been leveraged and manipulated by parents on both sides.
27:42I'm representing myself and my little brother.
27:45This program required my sisters to be forced under great duress.
27:48They ordered my children immediately turned over to their abuser for an indefinite reunification.
27:54My name is Ty Larson.
27:56I actually have been a victim of this court system.
28:00I am currently still battling the court system today.
28:03Children are not responsible for this.
28:05No, the children love their dad.
28:07They've been taught not to love their dad.
28:10They're victims of it, just like BJ is a victim of it.
28:13And so many other people all around the world are victims of it.
28:16My name is Jolene Larson.
28:18It's horrible the stories that have been told here about true child abuse.
28:23We've been living this battle in the family court system.
28:26My son was falsely accused of sexually abusing his children in 2018.
28:31I want to speak for the falsely accused parents.
28:34I saw my ex-wife increasingly petting the children against me.
28:43What I really think is happening is you're having this situation where people are in the most vulnerable position they
28:51could ever be in in their life.
28:52You're breaking up a family.
28:55We were told early on that family law is a joke.
28:59They don't try to solve problems.
29:00They wait for you to either run out of money or age the children out.
29:05Sometimes winning means getting custody of the kids.
29:08Sometimes winning means just keeping your ex in court until they are so down and out that they can't defend
29:14themselves anymore, let alone pay the rent.
29:17We still owe over $300,000 in legal bills.
29:22I will be paying on that for probably the rest of my life.
29:29We still have legal bills.
29:31But we stayed in the fight because we love the children.
29:35But there's no easy out.
29:37Having children, getting married, having a job, buying a house, we do it all so I'm going to give my
29:44kids this.
29:45And you take away the kids and then you have to, like, what's my life worth?
29:48The best interest of kids is what you hear over and over again.
29:53Fighting for the kids.
29:56But the thing that can frequently get overlooked are the kids.
30:03So the same day I moved out, I filed emancipation papers.
30:06I graduated early.
30:08I got a job at a fast food restaurant.
30:10I could have supported myself with rent for, like, six months.
30:13But I felt really lonely, honestly.
30:17It was the loneliest I've ever been in my life.
30:20I started coming back home.
30:22And I just, like, never left.
30:24And this is where I stay.
30:27It's almost like a three-sectional room.
30:30My guitars here are my main guitars I play on a consistent basis on this side.
30:35He's a good student.
30:37He's a smart kid.
30:39But he wasn't ready to live on his own and be emancipated.
30:42So the judge ruled against it.
30:43But Ty never came to another visit.
30:45Still working through stuff.
30:47My therapist is amazing.
30:49He's awesome.
30:51He actually knew my old therapist, J.P. Lilly.
30:54I have his shelf pretty much dedicated to J.P. Lilly
30:58with all the stuff he's given me.
31:00He's the person that sparked confidence in me.
31:07Knowing you had somebody right there.
31:20He showed me the strength that I knew I never had.
31:35A lot of the other stuff I went through last year,
31:36like all the feelings, the emotions, the breakdowns, the panic attacks,
31:40even the trauma, the trauma itself, the key where we disclosed,
31:44I can recall two events and that's it.
31:48My brain has fogged that out.
31:53But I'm doing so much better.
31:56My psychologist now has a different mindset of,
31:59all right, let's start picking up these pieces
32:01and let's start realizing you're not as broken as you think.
32:05There are a lot of kids who will spend many years into their adulthood
32:10trying to make sense of what their parents put them through
32:14and what the court system put them through.
32:18But in the case of Ty and Brynn, it wasn't an ending
32:22that the family could have predicted.
32:25It wasn't an ending I predicted.
32:30Are you ready to do this, BJ?
32:39We ended up filing another petition for custody.
32:44And when we went to mediation, Brent voluntarily relinquished
32:49his parental rights to Ty and Brynn Lee.
32:51When we went to mediation, I was there.
32:54My husband was there.
32:56BJ said, I fought a good fight.
32:59It's done.
33:00It came from completely out of left field.
33:02I never saw it coming.
33:04You know, we love the kids.
33:05We want the kids to be a part of our lives.
33:07But this is torture for them along with us.
33:11I have seen people get driven into the ground
33:14and they're just like,
33:15I can't stand to watch my child be ripped apart anymore.
33:20And for their sake.
33:21So it's really Solomon's baby.
33:24It's like, don't cut him in half and I'll give them up.
33:27BJ signing away his children was because he loved him.
33:37It kind of reminds me of the scripture in Solomon.
33:40Where you can cut the child in half.
33:42You know, and we were splitting the kids in half.
33:45We're trying to get them.
33:46And it's like, no, at some point you love your child,
33:48you let them go.
33:52At least they live, you know.
33:55I can't imagine that that was easy for him.
34:05I hold gratitude and love in my heart for that.
34:16So Aaron wrote some letters to Ty and Brintley.
34:20And we're going to put together their little boxes
34:23before we go over and decorate at the park.
34:27Dear Ty,
34:29sitting here writing this letter to you,
34:31I am full of emotions.
34:33I am truly blessed
34:37to have been able to have been in your life
34:41these last 13 years.
34:43I would love nothing more in this life
34:45than have you as my son and to be your father.
34:48I would like to adopt you.
34:51I hope you are as excited as I am
34:54and your mother is about this.
34:55I'm so grateful that Aaron is there
34:58to support Brintley and Ty.
35:01You know, he's been a stable figure for them
35:03and has been a father to them.
35:06Hey guys.
35:07Hello.
35:08Can we go for a quick walk?
35:09Will you come with me?
35:15Dear Brintley,
35:16your heart is so big.
35:18It is so natural to you
35:19to want to help out
35:20and lift those that are down.
35:22You have grown into such an amazing
35:24and beautiful young woman.
35:26I love you with all of my heart
35:28and look forward to the future we have as of them.
35:30Do you remember when Brintley was in preschool?
35:33What she wanted to be when she grew up?
35:35She did want to be a caterpillar.
35:36That was great.
35:38Could have been great, you know?
35:39What do caterpillars do?
35:40They just sit there.
35:43Exactly.
35:43There's no point in it.
35:45Can you say you're a butterfly?
35:47I'm a butterfly.
35:47A butterfly?
35:54Hello.
35:55Hello.
35:56Hello.
35:57Fancy seeing you guys here.
35:59Oh, I hope Ty and Brintley are happy.
36:02Want to open up that?
36:03Ready?
36:05I got it up.
36:06So did I.
36:08I hope sometime in the future
36:10that they would see this
36:12and understand our love for them.
36:22Whether we're a part of their lives in the future or not,
36:25we just hope that they heal
36:26and they live a good, happy life.
36:34Are you ready to do this, BJ?
36:36Yes.
36:45Hi, my name is BJ Larson.
36:48I believe I speak for most fathers
36:50when I say we would go to any length
36:52to protect our children.
36:53Say hi.
36:54Hi.
36:56I fought with all my heart
36:58and with the thought of not being able
37:00to give my kids the childhood they deserve
37:03is often more than I can bear.
37:06I never could have imagined
37:08that signing a piece of paper
37:09would be the hardest thing I would ever do.
37:12But I did it for them.
37:14Spit him out, huh?
37:17I could no longer watch my children endure more pain
37:20for something they did not
37:22and could not control.
37:27If they ever hear these words,
37:29I need them to know
37:29that I never stopped fighting,
37:31I never stopped loving,
37:33and I never once stopped believing
37:34that they deserve more
37:35than what this broken system put us through.
37:38Not a single day passes
37:39that I do not think of my children
37:41and what should have been.
37:43My greatest hope is that one day
37:45we will have the opportunity
37:47to reconnect and continue writing new chapters
37:50in our family story.
37:52I love you, Diane Redd.
38:01I love you, Diane Redd.
38:21For the community,
38:22It's mouth just fell off.
38:27It's very cute.
38:31Let's get a little
38:33There's only two left
38:38Love you too
38:41Yeah
38:41Have fun, bye
38:58Thank you
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