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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI just watched a really disturbing episode of "Stalked" on the ID channel.
It was called "The Girl Next Door" and was about this preteen that assaulted 2 sisters, threatened their dogs and basically kept them prisoners in their own home for 5 years.
She would stand outside their house for hours at a time in the pouring rain, snow and make animal noises at them. She was seriously disturbed.
The police couldn't do anything until she finally did verbally threaten to kill one of them. I felt so bad for them.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Seriously. thank you. I don't need anymore nightmares.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)And I find it disturbing that at the end of the program, the host says a million people are stalked a year. Stalking is serious business.
My granddaughter was stalked by a 16-year old boy when she was about 10. He lived near the school she went to. It got so bad that she had an adult escort from the bus to the building and when she entered the building, the school went on lock-down. No one in or out except through the office and with proper documentation. She never went in the halls without an adult escort. She had an adult escort her to her bus and stay with her until the bus left the property. Fortunately, the boy didn't drive and wasn't able to follow her home. After a few weeks of this, we withdrew her from that school and enrolled her in another. Her parents had to prove a written reason for changing schools. Once she started at the new school, we never had any indication that the boy was around. It was an intense few weeks -- I don't know how people put up with it for years.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I am so sorry.
The parents tried talking to the girl's father and he blew her off; the parents tried to move but it was when the market crashed.
She moved to another school but the girl still stood outside the house.
I really like the psychology expert on that show---but she said if and when stalkers go to prison---they sometimes become even more obsessed with the person.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)The episode was really strange.
This person was crazy.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Laws need to be much stiffer. When you have documented evidence of someone who is perpetually after you, action should be taken. These people are having serious mental problems.
The psychological damage can be devastating. Unless they are dead, you can never feel safe. Even after many years in jail, some fixate still on that one person.
If you are stalked, document everything with as many details as possible. Save anything sent by that person. Save any messages in any form.