What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Pennsylvania
My situation is as follows. In September of last year, my wife and I took in a young man from California who was suffering from bipolar depression (it turned out he also has Aspergers, borderline, and more) because he had been mostly abandoned by his family and we felt that he would die if we didn’t do something immediately. We tried to get him set up with social security benefits, etc. In December, after months of escalating emotional and physical abuse from him, he attacked my wife and locked her in his room, not allowing her to leave. The police were called and they were able to get my wife out safely and he was taken to a mental health hospital and then arrested for simple assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment, and harassment and is currently in jail awaiting arraignment. At this point, whenever he is released, he has nowhere to go, so would be homeless; because of this, we have nowhere to send his stuff to get it out of our house and ensure that he has no reason to come back here. We have moved since then, so he has no legal right to occupy our home.
My question is; what is our legal obligation regarding his belongings? He came with a computer and a few clothes. Everything else, we purchased for him, including a bike and more clothes. Can we discard the things that we bought? Can we discard all of it? Is there somewhere we can take it so that he will receive it and we will not be held accountable? Our best case scenario is that we get his stuff out of our house and we never have to see him again, what are the options to have those two conditions met? (this is only regarding his belongings and excludes the possibility of having to see him at a trial, etc)
Any help will be very appreciated, thank you.
My situation is as follows. In September of last year, my wife and I took in a young man from California who was suffering from bipolar depression (it turned out he also has Aspergers, borderline, and more) because he had been mostly abandoned by his family and we felt that he would die if we didn’t do something immediately. We tried to get him set up with social security benefits, etc. In December, after months of escalating emotional and physical abuse from him, he attacked my wife and locked her in his room, not allowing her to leave. The police were called and they were able to get my wife out safely and he was taken to a mental health hospital and then arrested for simple assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment, and harassment and is currently in jail awaiting arraignment. At this point, whenever he is released, he has nowhere to go, so would be homeless; because of this, we have nowhere to send his stuff to get it out of our house and ensure that he has no reason to come back here. We have moved since then, so he has no legal right to occupy our home.
My question is; what is our legal obligation regarding his belongings? He came with a computer and a few clothes. Everything else, we purchased for him, including a bike and more clothes. Can we discard the things that we bought? Can we discard all of it? Is there somewhere we can take it so that he will receive it and we will not be held accountable? Our best case scenario is that we get his stuff out of our house and we never have to see him again, what are the options to have those two conditions met? (this is only regarding his belongings and excludes the possibility of having to see him at a trial, etc)
Any help will be very appreciated, thank you.