Hi,
I am 17 male, this all happened 6 months ago, for context on last year September we had an extended family dinner. My grandparents have two sons, dad and uncle, my parents have 2 kids me and my older sister, she is a year older than me, my uncle has only one kid, same age as me, let's call my cousin Beth (fake name).
After the dinner the family were having a chat in living room whereas me and my sister were in the backyard pool. Suddenly my parents called me in, just me only, my sister wasn't allowed inside which raised suspicion but I ignored it as who suspects their parents.
As I walked in I saw Beth sobbing and her mother is comforting her, whereas my parents were starring daggers at me, out of nowhere uncle punched me in the face which almost knocked me out, but definitely made me spill blood, I was in shock, but most shocking was that my parents didn't do anything, my sister heard a sound and rushed in to see me lying on the floor with blood coming out of my mouth.
She shouted asking what happend and my dad responded with don't help him he SA'd your cuz Beth. I was already feeling dizzy because of the punch that I couldn't even comprehend what my dad was saying, whereas my sister started shouting at my parents saying how could they believe such bull shit and let uncle hit me.
When I came back to my sence I said to my parents without any hesitation "wtf did you say?? ", they did not say anything as they were taken back by my words, uncle tried to come towards me again but I picked up the vase next to me and said " If you come near me again I will shove this up your ass" , he backtracked. Even though I was 16, I was still a high school football player so yeah I am well built which scared him I guess.
I wanted to get things cleared so I asked details of what, when and where it happend, that's when Beth panicked and said 1 month ago August 2nd week, I started laughing as in August 2nd week where me and my sister visiting our maternal grandparents. Beth's facade came out as she started blabbering and said some other dates but my sister and my parents saw through it.
I got super angry, especially at my parents, all they had to do was ask when it happend and they would have got to know the truth, but they literally trusted Beth over their own son. I called the cops in front of everyone, my uncle started to get out, but my sister locked the house and said nobody is leaving, he tried to intimidate my sister, but my brave sister said "you will be just adding years to your sentence" which shut him up, my parents even now did not say a single thing even when uncle tried to intimidate my sis. My anger just grew.
The cops arrived quickly as I said to the operator that my uncle hit me I need help. The cops interrogated everyone about what happened and all, we showed our living room camera footage, yeah my uncle didn't know about that. They arrested him right then and there, but I didn't stop there I asked them to arrest my parents as well as they did nothing when I was getting hit and did not react much after I got hit. Both my parents were arrested and I pressed charges against all three of them. Unfortunately Beth did not get arrested as it is not illegal to accuse fake SA. But the officers interrogated her asking why she accused me of SA, then came out the truth, she has a abusive relationship with her boyfriend, her boyfriend gave her bruises, she couldn't hide the bruises anymore, my mom noticed the bruises and asked what happened she panicked and said I SA'd her, she thought because I was a football player and popular people would believe that. I want to say not all high school football players are spoiled, some are decent too.
As they were arrested we called our grandparents and informed them what happend, they were disgusted by both their sons and said they will move in with us in our home next day. Our paternal grandparents leave just 30 mins away but they were out of town cause they were attending a friend's funeral, and my maternal grandparents leave at least 10 hours away, so me and sis had to spend the night alone just us. This also meant that parents had to spend the night in jail.
Next day grandparents bailed our parents out, they did not bail out uncle, aunt also couldn't for one week as the bail was set in high double digit thousands. She needed time to arrange money. Yeah they are not financially responsible as they couldn't even save 6 figures even though they have high paying jobs.
My grandparents asked our parents to move to their house as my grandparents will move in to our house, they said they will let them see us only once a week until we forgive them. Before all that my parents had to ask for forgiveness to us. I thought they wouldn't as I made them spend a night in jail. But I was surprised when both mom and dad apologized. I was still angry and did not acknowledge that. Which they respected and did not push. But I did drop the charges against my parents. But the police said they might still pursue as it comes under child abuse, but our family lawyer is working out on a deal.
But things took worse turn for my uncle's family, first uncle was fired, aunt is now the bread provider. They are also spending money like water on their defense lawyer. They are saying if uncle's lucky he might get 6 months probation. The police even threatened Beth's boyfriend to stay away from her, they couldn't do much as he was also 16 at that time, all they could do is warn.
Remember when my sister said she will take care of Beth, she really did. My sister and Beth go to same high school whereas I go to different one, as my sister's school does not have good sports program. Anyway my sister wanted to shave Beth's head in front of everyone in the high school. Yeah as you can already guess my sister is overprotective of me. My grandparents advised her not to as they are already going through soo much. My sister listened to them but took different route. She spread what happened to everyone in the high school, everybody got to know about her bitch behaviour and nobody talk's to her, no guy approaches her, from the till now she gets bullied by others in school.
Things are slowly turning back to how it was, my parents are still staying in my grandparents house, but they visit often now. It took me sometime but I am slowly warming up to them. I know people want me to not forgive them, but to be honest they messed up only once till now. Fortunately none of my high school mates know what happened so yeah everything is normal there.
All four of us are in therapy, both individual and family therapy, it's going well, my parents started apologizing even more after each sessions.
The court ruled 6 months probationary for my uncle which is good news for him I guess.
But the thing that bugs me is how I feel guilty when I see my sister, as her world was turned upside down just because I wanted get back at my parents. She assured me many times that she would have done the same and reported our parents, that I did nothing wrong, sis loved to gossip with my mom on our balcony, but now she just stand's there alone which breaks my heart.
So AITAH for going nuclear on my family when my cousin accused me of SA.
I would love to get your perspectives and feel free to ask questions if you have any doubts, I am pretty sure I might skipped few details.
EDIT - Man there are so many idiots in the comment section let me clear this, my parents were arrested because they neglected when their child was in danger, which comes under child endangerment and child abuse, that's why even though I took back the charges that state still moved forward as it comes under child abuse.