Friends & Fans Stalking is a Crime now days. You cant even threaten a Potato Chip without getting delt with. Anyways Im having some serious Stalker issues & Im Publicly writing this because this person looks at my Page as well as Folks I know. They crossed the line several times, all on Cell Phone Messages. What is concerning me now this Person is threatening bodily harm. You wont deal with me directly & now I choose to deal with you. You are here by Publicly Announced @Margaret Jennett for threatening to do bodily injury. Letting you know I have ALL info I need on you including residential history. Once I return home, I will be getting in touch with Proper Authorities. I have enough Family & Friends as well as the other Person your threatening they have been made aware of the situation. You are now aware @Margaret Jennett I am proceeding counsel to press charges. Please Fans dont ask just be Prayful, I never take it lightly when someone threatens me harm. State and Federal Stalking Laws Although stalking has been a problem for many years, only in this decade has it received adequate attention from lawmakers, policy officials, and law enforcement agencies. In 1990, California became the first state to enact a specific stalking law. Since that time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have enacted stalking laws. The National Victim Center website provides the most recent text of all state stalking laws. Less than one third of the states have anti-stalking laws that explicitly cover stalking via the internet. California, for example, only recently amended its statute to cover cyberstalking in order to prosecute a 50-year-old former security guard who pleaded guilty on April 28, 1999 to using the Internet to solicit the rape of a woman who rejected his romantic advances. Federal law provides some tools to combat cyberstalking. Under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), it is a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Section 875(c) applies to any communication actually transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce - thus it includes threats transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce via the telephone, e-mail, beepers, or the Internet. This is the statute under which Jake Baker was charged. The shortcomings of 18 U.S.C. 875 are evident from the dismissal of the Baker case. It is construed to apply only to communications of actual threats; thus it does not apply in a situation where a cyberstalker engaged in a pattern of conduct intended to harass or annoy another (absent some threat). Also, it is not clear that it would apply to situations where a person harasses or terrorizes another by posting messages on a bulletin board or in a chat room encouraging others to harass or annoy another person. Certain forms of cyberstalking also may be prosecuted under 47 U.S.C. 223. One provision of this statute makes it a federal crime, punishable by up to two years in prison, to use a telephone or telecommunications device to annoy, abuse, harass, or threaten any person at the called number. The statute also requires that the perpetrator not reveal his or her name. See 47 U.S.C. 223(a)(1)(C). Although this statute is broader than 18 U.S.C. 875 -- in that it covers both threats and harassment -- Section 223 applies only to direct communications between the perpetrator and the victim. Thus, it would not reach a cyberstalking situation where a person harasses or terrorizes another person by posting messages on a bulletin board or in a chat room encouraging others to harass or annoy another person. Moreover, Section 223 is only a misdemeanor, punishable by not more than two years in prison. The Interstate Stalking Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, makes it a crime for any person to travel across state lines with the intent to injure or harass another person and, in the course thereof, places that person or a member of that persons family in a reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury. See 18 U.S.C. 2261A. Although a number of serious stalking cases have been prosecuted under Section 2261A, the requirement that the stalker physically travel across state lines makes it largely inapplicable to cyberstalking cases.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:30:00 +0000
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