Can I press charges against someone for communicating threats via facebook?

Yes, you can. It does not matter how or through what medium the threat is communicated.

You may also be able to get her either suspended or banned from Facebook. Email them with the details and see what type of action they’re willing to take.

If you also decide to pursue this legally through the police or DAs office, that’s probably the first thing they would be asking you about. I can’t imagine Facebook condoning this type of thing.

Get a restraining order immediately.

Contact your local police department and show them the threats. Tell them that you are pregnant.

I agree with the others that Facebook should be notified.

As for getting the police involved, how serious do you think the threats are? Does this person know where you live? Do you know if she lives near you? Does she have any motive whatsoever to cause you physical harm? These are questions the police would most likely ask. I am not sure what they can do unless you can convince them that you are in danger.

This person knows where I live, she knows where I work, and most of the places frequent. She has made multiple threats toward me in the past and now this again outta the blue…she has not life apparently…and the threat is toward me and my “fetus”. So Im personally taking this very personally…the threats have been made over and over and have several people to confirm this. The only physical evidence I have is the most recent post she made where she Literallyy uses my name as the header first and last. Honestly if i wasnt pregnant and she didnt mention the “fetus” (as she put it) I probably would just let it roll off my shoulders but shes very well know down here its a very small town and she has a violent record. I just want someone to force her to leave me alone…and hope this way if i do press charges against her if anything were to happen to me or my property Id have this to back me up.

Oh and as for motive, she claims she heard I was talking about her and her family. The woman is 40 years old and Im 25…its honestly really pathetic but she is crazy as hell. Ive heard stories about her stabbing her ex and throwing hot grits on another ex. So yea if she got the chance at me im sure she would.

You should be able to. You should also be able to get a restraining order against her.

Maybe a suit for slander or libel, depending what she posted, and if that was a reason she wanted to do you great harm.

I understand your concern, but if the woman has not contacted you directly by stalking, making phone calls or writing letters, I don’t think there is much that the police can do.

How have your friends answered her? Have they come to your defense? Have they pointed out that she is threatening criminal behavior that would result in her arrest? Have they told her that they would be willing to testify as witnesses at a trial? Or are they intimidated by her?

Yes, absolutely. Something similar happened with some acquaintences of mine. The husband of a female friend, who it turns out had been abusing her for years, went on FB and threatened another female friend of ours who was trying to help her get out of the abusive relationship. He threatened her, her newborn baby and her husband in great detail on FB. He even created a fake FB account just for the purpose of threatening our friend. My friend (the one that was trying to help our abused friend get away from her husband) contacted FB and gave them screen shots and time stamps of the offending FB pages and threats. FB took down his accounts. The offender lived in a different town, so she contacted the police in the offender’s town and her own town. The police in her town opened a report on this guy and she had to go down to the police station and give them all of the information about this man and how and where he threatened her. Then the police in the man’s town, opened a report (with the help of the police in my friend’s town, so that everyone is on the same page) and they actually went over to the man’s house and spoke with him and told him that if he didn’t stop threatening my friend, that he would be taken to jail. The “reports” are ongoing, so if the man does anything else, he will immediately be charged with a crime.

The unfortunate part of this situation, is that our friend who was/is being abused, decided to stay with him and hasn’t spoken to any of her former friends since this all started. She was angry that our other friend got the police involved even though her own life is in danger and her own husband threatened her former friend’s family mulitiple times. It’s really sick : (

Just make sure that you have all of the correct information at hand when you file your reports with FB and the police, including any part that you may have had in this mess too. You said that at first, you were talking back to the offender, so let the police know that, and make sure that you have screen shots and/or time stamps, and let them know the home address of the offender. You may want/need to get a restraining order too. If you live in a different town than the offender, you will need to contact the police in both your town and her town. Good luck with this and be safe.

Call the police.

Ive called the police they said I have to go down to the Magistrates office to press charges..we have 51 friends in common so yea i can get a few to say they saw it and know the situation but other than that this woman has slept with half of the police down in this town and has been here her whole life so shes got friends everywhere etc. But another incident happened yesterday where me and a friend of mine were in the dollar store and her closest friend was in there and caused a huge scene saying how the woman was gonna put her foot up my ass etc etc and she was gonna get me and that there was nothing i could do.. so now that her friends have started harassing me doesnt that help the situation of getting her with these charges?? This has been going on for months and normally I just ignore it bc its whatever but now that im pregnant and shes mentioning the child and all i feel like she needs to be put to a stop here is the exact status im going to star out my entire name for obvious reasons but know that the name was completely showing on her status to her 1038 friends :

S****a L****s

ok T******A C*****N u got one more time to post shit about me or my MAMA ON FACEBOOK and i promise u when u have that fetus your doctor is gonna be pulling my 10 SLIM NARROW ASS FOOT OUT YOUR ASS FIRST !! SAVE THE DRAMA FOR YOUR MAMA AND FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE THAN TO BE WRITING AND POSTING SHIT ABOUT ME BETTER YET U ARE FIXING TO BE A MOM WORRY ABOUT THAT AND NOT MY DAMN BUSINESS EVERYDAY U GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME U KNOW WHERE IM AT U WERE TOLD THIS 100 TIMES BEFORE WHY FACEBOOK ??

This is the funny part tho all 51 of our common friends are asking me what i said bc they dont or havent seen anything on facebook. Because i havent posted or said anything bc there just not worth it to me honestly. But this is her way of stirring it up trying to get a rise outta me and make all her friends think shes a bad ass bc thats what she does Im tired of being harassed by her and her friends and family and am not gonna be threatened by them publically like in the dollar store anymore or on facebook. Going to magistrates offince this morning with the girl that was with me yesterday in the dollar store ill let ya know how it goes

Go to the magistrate’s office. Print all of the comments off and take them with you. Better yet, take screen prints and print THOSE off.

Can’t you block her from your Facebook?

In addition go going to the magistrate’s office with the screen prints of the FB threats, make sure you document every incident where something else has happened in person, like with this woman’s friend at the dollar store. Be very specific: name of person who harrassed you, exactly what they said (not a summation, but exactly what they said) where the incident happened and the date and time. Keep a record of everything. Block or unfriend the harrasser immediately (and let the police know that you’ve done that). DO NOT reply back to the harrasser at all, but let the police know that you were still corresponding with her in the beginning.

Ok just got back from pressing charges….She will be served sometime this week im sure and im sure thatll just feed the fire giving me plenty more to use once we go to court in January just dont like the fact that i actually have to be there with her to do this is makes my stomach turn. Really dont wanna go but know thats what i will have to do and I mentioned the incident that occured at the dollar store on the actual complaint with the date and the girls name so thats already been documented. My paper says The State Of North Carolina vs ” womans name ” does that mean i need a lawyer or will the DA be on my side to help me dispute the incident?

Good question…I don’t know. Why don’t you call the DA?