Pieta

I remember calling him and telling him the situation and he just did not believe me. This is Pieta, a stalking victim who met a brick wall when telling her manager that a colleague was stalking her. I was getting message requests on Facebook from accounts that at the time I didn't realise were fake but...

They were fake profiles and they were of my boyfriend at the time's friends. He was in Europe at the time and it was a pretty fresh relationship. So all the messages were basically saying that he was cheating on me with all these people that he knew. Pieta never made a formal complaint about her stalker. Hers was considered a minor case. He ended up...

it was just flooded with pictures of him on google images like photos of him in court it was just everywhere and my heart sank because I was just confused as to how this man got a job

um especially being in and out of prison so many times and it's quite a big company so you'd expect them to do a good background check on people like this but I was living with my parents at the time because I was still quite young and they basically said you're not going back to that job because like they didn't feel safe with me there so I was really excited about that job as well and I

I had to leave, sadly. Did you actually go to the police? The most I did was get my policeman friend to file reports, but the reports was it. So it was on file, like all the information, all the screenshots, all the letters that had written me were all on file, but that was all really.

Honestly I did not get any other help except for like the friends and family around me just like that helped me like reassure me that it would all be okay but I just sort of let it like let him because I was just ignoring his messages the whole time maybe he thought that I

Was it that or what kind of prevailed from that situation? More the fact that it wouldn't be worth the stress to go to court, especially just because they thought the situation wasn't that bad. But it's only bad until you get hurt, you know. So thankfully, I didn't get hurt physically, but, you know.

anything could happen and i just couldn't believe that this sort of stuff wasn't illegal there's certain levels to stalking and like his is like a pretty severe case like this man's face is plastered all over google images when you search him up so you'd think that they just leave him in there

I found, yeah, I was very disappointed that I couldn't just easily go to the police and they'd just take him away. Like I said before, I knew a police officer and he basically just told me it wouldn't be worth going to court with him because it would be years of just stress of going in and out and especially at the age I was, like, it just wouldn't be worth it. But it did start...

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He was getting locked up or going to court because he'd done it to eight other women after me. I really do not wish it upon anyone. It's just not, you never know what they can do.

I thankfully had a very minor case from him, like he didn't do anything extreme but it could get worse. Katie Hogan says New Zealand has been lagging on legislation like this. All the overseas jurisdictions that we compare ourselves to have lagged.