Um, life in the barricades, it's hard.

I'll say that it's hard not seeing people and not leaving.

15 year old Ty Larson updates his TikTok followers every day from inside of his bedroom.

The room is full of teenage boy stuff, computer, guitar, board games.

Also his little sister, 12 year old Bryn Lee.

Bryn Lee's doing good.

She is sleeping.

She sleeps nonstop.

It's a way to cope.

If you learn about psychology.

Ty and Bryn Lee have been barricaded inside of that bedroom since last December.

They're refusing to leave it because a judge says they must reunite with their father

and they say their father abuse them.

Now the judge believes the kids are victims of parental alienation.

That Ty and Bryn Lee's mom has poisoned them against their father.

Coming up on today explained what the story of these two children exposes about family

courts.

It's today explained I'm Newell King.

Hannah Dreyfus is an Abrams reporting fellow for ProPublica.

Hannah investigates abuses of power in many places, including in family court.

And that's how she ended up looking into the story of these two kids Ty and Bryn Lee.

Here's Hannah.

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