Would this be considered a criminal offense?

[anonymous]

This is a bit stupid, it's on the issue of bullying I guess but also harassment, stalking, and breaking a no-contact order, to sum it up. We are seniors in high school, so it's pathetic that it's escalating this much, but there's not much we can do.

My best friend has been getting harassed relentlessly by her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend for the last 6-7 months. Once it escalated to death threats and destruction of property by the girls friends, my friend got a no-contact order on her and her ex, about 3-4 months ago. The conditions of the contract were that they are not allowed to directly contact each other, they aren't allowed to park by each other in the school parking lot, and they can't have any access to each other on social networking sites. It's only being enforced by our schools police officer.

So my friend has the girl and everyone else involved blocked on Facebook and Twitter. They still constantly talk about her on the sites (which I have access to, because I am not part of the contract so I can still view their pages) and they still harass her in person too- usually yelling things at her in the hall. It hasn't been a big deal and she's mostly ignored it.

But recently, the other girl caused a car accident, and my friend found out about it. She made an immature joke about it (admittedly a bad idea) on Twitter, but did not mention the girl by name, so it didn't actually violate her contract. Somehow the girl and her sister found out about it, so she and her sister made new twitter accounts (which, stupidly, they used their real emails on them so we could trace who they were) and for the last hour or so they have been attacking her personally on Twitter, using her name, giving out personal information, and sending her hundreds upon hundreds of tweets threatening her and ridiculing her publicly. I know what they are doing is considered cyberstalking, but I'm not sure if they can actually get in trouble for it.

We have screenshots of most of the tweets they have sent so far, and we plan to take them to the police tomorrow. I was just wondering what kind of trouble these girls could get in for all of this harassment?

[thecharleslloyd]

Yes you can do something about this, take everything you have to a police station.