Can My Ex be charged for harrassment of our daughter

YOUR STATE NAME - YOUR STATE NAME - Florida

My Ex husband has stalking and harrassing behavior with our children, namely our 18 year old right now as she has a boyfriend and is ready to leave home. He was always of that mentality with me however I felt when our children were old enough to flee the nest he would allow them to grow up peacefully without feeling they have to look over their shoulders. He had residential custody of the kids as I was the one who moved out to another town and the kids chose to stay in their school system and whatnot anyway.. My 18 year old told me the other day that he has been taking their mail, tapping their phone calls and has been doing this for nearly the entire time we have been apart. I left him for doing this to me and also doing things like cutting up all my credit cards, taking my bank card and check book and trying to make me totally dependent on him so I would stay. Now he is doing it to our daughter. Can she press charges against him? I wish I had, especially for the wire tapping. He has been harrassing her at work and harrassing her friends and boyfriends family. He won't let her go. She wants to move in with me now and I am scared not only for her but for myself and plan to get a restraining order so he can't come near the house.
I know he needs pschiatric help but refuses to stay with a counselor as soon as they say something he doesn't like. I want to protect my daughter and make her feel safer. Naturally she doesn't want to have to press charges against her dad but if she has to she has to. HELP

My wife's fathr ws abusive when they were growing up. When her parents seperated he and his family did the same things that your husband is doing. He even showed up dressed in all black at 2:30am one night with gloves on and a hat. They saw him and called the cops. One day he was drunk and ran over my wife's foot with the car ( I think this was accidental, but he was drunk) but my wife and her sister got a restraining order agianst him out of fear and when they went to court the judge told him that he was not alowed to drink around them anymore or he would serve time in jail. He never drank around them again, was never abusive again, never harrassed again,etc. They have a great relationship now believe it or not! I would have your daughter get a restrainging order as well IF she wants to. I would think it would be necessary considering his bizarre behavior.

If I were in your situation, I would have the boyfriend place a restraining order against him and yourself. That way if she's with either of you she is safer from his harrassments and she doesn't have to place one on her own father, which I am sure would bother her. I would make sure she has a cell phone with her at all times so the issue of wire tapping is gone to. Or she can learn how to remove a wire-tapping, with the concept that he'll quit doing it if he feels it ineffective. Good luck