This boy was threatened to burn our house, told us that was going to shoot us, and all types of material. We do not call the police when he made the police because around here doing nothing, and we were afraid if we would just call them complicate things. My husband was in him one day in the city and struck him 1 time. Charges pressed the boy, now my husband is facing jail time because he was defending his family. Anyone who has ideas as to what he should do when you go to court? We can not afford an attourney and we were told that we can not get a judge appointed attourney. Basically I feel screwed by our judicial system. We tried to tell why the police hit the boy and they said we could file charges against him for the things that he said, but when it went to court we would be accused of retaliation, which is a crime. Please help someone.