Or long-term incarcerated.
BTW, it wasn’t a dating thing, not at all. It was a bullying situation.
With all respect, you’re wrong.
What you suffered was extremely bad, far worse than the typical case of stalking. It had a lot of other crimes mixed into it: vandalism, assault, etc.
But other, lesser cases, are still stalking too.
That’s the problem. That word shouldn’t be used for trifles like the case in the OP or my hypo with Bricker.
Maybe… But I don’t want to see words either diluted or restricted to only severe cases.
Say one guy gets the shit kicked out of him, breaks eighteen bones, loses the sight in one eye, never regains the use of his left hand. Another guy comes along with a black eye. Does the first guy get to say, “That isn’t assault and battery. I’m offended.” Of course it’s assault and battery: it’s just a much lesser case.
I seriously doubt that the mother in this case felt any fear for her own or her daughter’s safety.
If were called something like ‘third degree stalking’, I would have no problem with that.