Concord Man Arrested For Armed Robbery In Pleasant Hill

Brett Abril was a wonderful man and father for many years. Two years ago his twin passed away of an overdose, he lost his job as a French chef due to covid, and his step daughter that he raised since she was 4 months old started disrespecting him almost daily and had on multiple occasions punched him in the face for him simply doing what he has always done be her father. We would literally catch her in the act of sneaking out at 3 am and she’d yell and hit him saying you can’t tell me what to do your not my real dad. Catch her sexually chatting guys in their twenty’s on likee and Snapchat and take her phone and shed kick him. We have been getting her help for her anger issues for the last three years but she has bi polar disorder and major depressive disorder and often refuses help. Once he relapsed on drugs he wasn’t able to take HER anger anymore and did something he should have never done he hit her back. I called the police that night and he was arrested but they never pressed charges because there wasn’t enough evidence of a crime and that was with my video cameras catching the incident live. Due to his drug use and the fighting between Adrianna and him escalating he moved out. He doesn’t beat his children. At most he takes their tablets and electronics away in fact the kids adore him and are more traumatized that they lost their dad than witnessing the big fight between their sister and him. Even with Brett out of the home one would think things have calmed down but Adrianna has basically just turned her anger to me and has now started hitting me when she gets upset and yelling at me all the time. Things no longer escalate because I walk away until she’s calm again. I know better not to react poorly to her mood swings and am doing my part as her mother to get her the help she needs with therapy and wrap around program for teens. My husband and I got sober together in 2012. We are still married but I have told him we are separating because he won’t get clean again and I’m tired of waiting on him to change. Even so nothing excuses his actions and I’m in complete agreement he needs to be put away so he stops committing crimes. That doesnt take away from the fact He needs a drug treatment program and therapy. Without drug involvement he is a completely different person. The type of guy that brought groceries to our elderly neighbor during the pandemic and when he noticed the kids egged her house walked them over to apologize in person and then climed her roof and scrubbed it clean even though she said he didn’t have too. For years he took her trash cans out every week. He would take the kids and wash cars for twenty dollars and when they had earned 100 each he took them to target and let them buy whatever they wanted. He reads bedtime stories and makes smores over candles in the kitchen. Has scary movie marathons while eating kids choice junk food. Cooks dinner for his family after working a 12 hour shift exhausted because he knew even as a stay at home mom I needed a break too and kept me sane when my son died in my belly right before Christmas. When his twin died leaving three children and a heartbroken widow who couldn’t get out of bed he asked me if we could bring his niece and nephew to live with us for almost a year. He bought them clothes and backpacks for school and took the added expense of two more children on less than 4k a month and didn’t ask his sister in law for a dime of help. He was introduced to methamphetamines at the age of 11 and has always turned to them when his world got to painful. No one should be just judged for the worst things they’ve ever done. Brett is many things but filth and abuser is not one of them. I want his victims to be compensated for the trauma his actions have caused but I also want him to get the help he needs so he can return to the man I know he can be.