I agree.......My neighbor and good friend was terrorized by an ex-girlfriend who worked in the same Ford plant as he did.
Following their break up, she stalked him continuously.
She vandalized his car numerous times, appeared in church behind him and started harrassing him during the service, broke into his house numerous times and even attempted to run over the responding officer who appeared on scene.
Most of the above occuring after he had obtained a useless restraining order against her...........
Unfortunately the courts and law enforcement did nothing to protect him from her and he finally snapped.
His original sentence was life in prison but after serving six years, his case was finally accepted by the State Supreme Court which ordered a new trial.
The original trying judge refused to allow all the exculpatory evidence against the deranged woman to be used as a defense.
The new trial resulted in the jury still finding him guilty but sentenced him to 8 years in prison with time served. So two years later he was finally a free man............
Knowing my friend and his wife as I do, the travesty is not what he did and which he ultimately has to live with for the rest of his life, but how the system failed both him and the deranged woman's family as she was allowed to continue her attacks unfettered...........
Oh my goodness, what a terribly sad situation!
The system, and society in general, just doesn’t seem to know what to do with crazy people anymore. And they seem to be everywhere. We see it every day in the headlines.
I can only imagine how your friend must’ve felt. I didn’t have it nearly that bad but I certainly felt my ex was holding all the cards. I felt alone and abandoned by “the system”. I was basically told there wasn’t much the law could do until he hurt or killed me. We’ll, that just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
Even things designed to help can make it worse. A friend moved back here from Florida because she was hiding from her ex who put her in the hospital more times than I can count. She moved out in the boonies to hide from him and had a nice, generic rural route address. Even if he somehow got her mailing address, he’d have to search miles and miles of county roads and isolated farms to find her. Then they switched to 911 addresses. She was terrified. Now, if he got her address, he would know exactly where she was.
Same with Google Street images. When I see that, what I think is “a crazy ex would be able to study your house, where the doors and windows are, how close the neighbors are, bushes to hide in, etc. all without you knowing it or ever leaving their house.”
My best wishes to your friend. I hope he got his life and happiness back!