My brother (M15) has been an ass for years. I (M17) knew a long time ago that he'd get into really big trouble some day and it's happening. When he was like 8 he started tormenting some of the kids in his class. It wasn't just bullying but harassment and even some stalking. He made their lives hell and my parents knew about it. The parents of one of the kids spoke to my parents directly and my parents didn't care what my brother was up to. They cared that he was being accused of something.

My brother was only 10 when he started telling other kids to kill themselves. And he used remote learning to be way more cruel and hide it easier. One day I caught him and told him to stop being suck an ass to those poor kids and he yelled at me to leave him alone. Mom and dad said I was overreacting and he wouldn't do something like that.

When school went back into our classrooms he would take off his mask and breathe on other kids. One time he even coughed and sneezed on a kid and this kid has an immunocompromised sibling and my brother taunted the kid that he'd kill his own sibling if he went near him.

Then he started getting physical with other kids. Shoving them, pushing them, kicking their feet out from under them.

My parents would always turn a blind eye to it.

And now it's caught up with him. A couple of seniors have siblings who were targeted by my brother and they jump him after school every day. My brother has started getting black eyes, busted lips, bruises all over his body. My parents are afraid to address it with the cops because my brother's behavior would be found out too and he'd be in trouble as well. Because he has assaulted kids. He went after a trans boy in our school and could probably be charged with a kind of SA based on stuff he's done, if what I heard is true. I've told him before he's sick and twisted and I told him once people would get payback on him.

I'll be honest I think he deserves it.

My parents are terrified the guys jumping him will kill him one day. They asked me why I'm not stepping in to help and protect my brother. I told them I'm not getting involved and he brought all this on himself. That he's an asshole and he doesn't deserve to be helped.

My parents told me he's still my brother and I'm his big brother and I should want to make sure he's okay. I asked if they ever considered that what's happening is other big brothers protecting their little brothers. They told me I should be ashamed of myself for not caring what happens. I said I could go to the cops for help and they told me I can't. They refused to answer why when pushed. Then they went back to saying they can't believe I won't help my brother and protect him. They said I'm a failure as a brother.

AITA?