Matty Burroughs

New Zealand please help us.

Help me help our brother, he is special needs, living in Wellington, in a flat with two other special needs lads. They have jobs & go about their lives in the best way they can with the cards they have been dealt in life. They mean no harm to anyone.

Unfortunately, our brother has become friendly with some skater guys. They have been taking our brother to the ATM & emptying his bank account, taking thousands from him over a few months before the family found out what had been happening. He just wants friends, he just wants to be accepted.

Now that he won’t give these guys money anymore they have broken into his house, on numerous occasions, stealing phones, kicking in doors, stealing his playstation & so on. The police have been involved, many times. But there is nothing they can do.

We have put up security cameras on their flat. Last night they returned, masked. Knocking on the door, telling his flatmate that he has a courier delivery so he opens the door. This guy kicks in doors looking for things to steal. The boys are traumatized. The police are involved again, but what can they do? Where do we go from here? The boys are too scared to return home, the flat will probably disperse, where do they live now? Where is their safety? Their independence? Is this the country we now accept that we live in? These boys should be admired for what they have overcome in their lives & the independence they have. Now it’s all gone. Because of our own people.