What is the name of your state? iowa
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My 16 yr old son's girlfriend of 3 years broke up with him about 3 weeks ago. First week, he took it hard - then starting accepting it a little more each day. A lot of teenagers in this small town hang out at one certain house each night. At this house, Son & ex have a heated conversation amongst other teens (& a mom) - decide to take it to a personal level in ex's car. After much arguing, son gets out of car, ex takes off.....son yells for her to stop and runs after car....ex slows down as son lunges on trunk of car - one foot on ground, one on bumper, reaching over trunk, grabbing on to part where trunk meets window.......ex stops by now, son lets go of car and proceeds to tell her that he didn't want it to end on a bad note and didn't want any hard feelings between the two of them. Ex says ok and leaves. Over the next 2 days, Son and one of the girls who live at this house start playing games when ex is around - making ex extremely jealous. So, 2 days later, ex presses charges of harrassment and criminal mischieve for scratching her car! These scratches are not even where he was by and the only part that touched the trunk was his outstretched arm (witnesses to this).
Over the last 2-3 days, 4 different times, at this hangout house, ex has come over (even though she has no direct friends that live there), knowing my son is there. She has purposely started negative conversations with him - screaming at him and calling him names - in front of other teens (witnesses) - twice he was in the basement, and she called for him to come upstairs to talk to her. Even after son talked to police about the charges, she stopped at this house, yelled for son to come up to talk to her - thank God he refused!!
I believe these scratches are not from my son - especially since it took her days to report them.....and he wasn't harrassing her - she was ready, willing & able to talk to him. It's not like he physically stopped her car to talk when she didn't want to.
Would you say, by her stopping at this house and provoking a heated conversation, that this is harrassment?? The police in this uppity little town don't seem to think so.....
Here's the foundation:
My 16 yr old son's girlfriend of 3 years broke up with him about 3 weeks ago. First week, he took it hard - then starting accepting it a little more each day. A lot of teenagers in this small town hang out at one certain house each night. At this house, Son & ex have a heated conversation amongst other teens (& a mom) - decide to take it to a personal level in ex's car. After much arguing, son gets out of car, ex takes off.....son yells for her to stop and runs after car....ex slows down as son lunges on trunk of car - one foot on ground, one on bumper, reaching over trunk, grabbing on to part where trunk meets window.......ex stops by now, son lets go of car and proceeds to tell her that he didn't want it to end on a bad note and didn't want any hard feelings between the two of them. Ex says ok and leaves. Over the next 2 days, Son and one of the girls who live at this house start playing games when ex is around - making ex extremely jealous. So, 2 days later, ex presses charges of harrassment and criminal mischieve for scratching her car! These scratches are not even where he was by and the only part that touched the trunk was his outstretched arm (witnesses to this).
Over the last 2-3 days, 4 different times, at this hangout house, ex has come over (even though she has no direct friends that live there), knowing my son is there. She has purposely started negative conversations with him - screaming at him and calling him names - in front of other teens (witnesses) - twice he was in the basement, and she called for him to come upstairs to talk to her. Even after son talked to police about the charges, she stopped at this house, yelled for son to come up to talk to her - thank God he refused!!
I believe these scratches are not from my son - especially since it took her days to report them.....and he wasn't harrassing her - she was ready, willing & able to talk to him. It's not like he physically stopped her car to talk when she didn't want to.
Would you say, by her stopping at this house and provoking a heated conversation, that this is harrassment?? The police in this uppity little town don't seem to think so.....