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Date Posted: 09:18:20 03/30/10 Tue
Author: sandra johnson
Subject: Stop Cyber Bullies!!!

I have been a victim of cyberbullying by one of my sisters for over three years. My sister is a back yard dog breeder but several years ago I thought she had a legitimate business. I thought this because we had not contacted each other in over twenty years. I learned about her 'business' through other family members. One day I was searching the Internet just doing research on dog breeds and wasn't really seriously looking for a puppy but had tossed around the idea. I thought about my sister and decided to send her an email inquiring about what kind of dogs she had. She replied telling me she had a black male puppy left and wanted eight hundred dollars for it. She also told me that before we could discuss the matter any further I would have to go to her website, fill out the application and fax it to her. She also wanted me to read the 'rules and regulations, spay and neuter information. The application was forty pages long I kid you not. The puppy was a doodle which is a mixed breed dog. I told her I really didn't want a male dog and I was not about to print out and fill out a forty page long application for a dog. I thanked her politely and left it at that. Unbelievably, she started sending me nasty emails, one after the other. I was shocked because I was very nice when I declined to buy her puppy. Things went from bad to worse. She started calling my house at late hours of the night demanding my husband to put me on the phone. She then had several men call my house threatening me. After that stopped, this is when the "flame war" between us started.
My sister is addicted to blogging and her favorite place to blog is MySpace. I found many, many horrible, nasty, hate-filled and accusatory blogs about me there and saved them all to my computer. When this continued on for months, I contacted MySpace and after a month or so, they forced her to stop the nasty blogging. She still uses MySpace but doesn't post about me. Because she sells puppies on the Internet, her ads and links to her website are everywhere. She has been banned from most dog forums for posting garbage about me and other people. The blogging got worse and worse as she found websites where she could get away with bashing and trashing me. Not only did she trash me, she posted the most awful and disgusting things about our other sisters as well. I started trashing her back and started using my Photoshop software to manipulate her photos and posted them on photo sharing sites. This incensed her to no end. The more she bashed me, the more I did it right back. Pretty soon the whole thing became an obsession with both of us. Last year I decided to move my elderly mother into my home to take care of her because she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. I had to quit my job of nine years but none of my siblings would step up and help so it was up to me. When my sister found out about this she went ballistic. She started calling the department of children and families here filing false complaints against me so naturally they were forced to come out and investigate. They have never found any wrong doing. This didn't stop my sister. She then called the police and they came out to my home on several occasions to investigate her false allegations of abuse. No wrong doing was found by the authorities. My sister has filed numerous false complaints and filing false complaints is a felony. She knows this but continues to do it.
Last Summer I put my mother in an assisted living facility. When my sister found out, she sent her husband down here from where they live in North Carolina to Florida and he attempted to remove my mother from the facility. Luckily I learned about this in time and I removed my mother and brought her back here to my house. That same day my sister's husband began stalking my house. I happened to see him walking up and down on my sidewalk in front of my house and didn't recognize him so I called the police. Two officers arrived and found out why he was at my house. He stated that his wife told him to drive down here to pick up her mother and take her back to North Carolina. When the officers spoke to me and my mother, I made it clear that my sister never contacted me to even ask if our mom could go to her house. What her husband basically was attempting is kidnapping. My mother told the officer that she had never seen my sister's husband before and she wasn't about to get in his car and go anywhere with him! She told the officers that she did not tell my sister she wanted to go live with her and she wasn't leaving my house. The officers told my sister's husband to be on his way.
The cyber bullying got worse, the accusations got worse and this is when my son configured my router so I couldn't see what she was posting. The calls to the police from my sister haven't stopped. They still come out to my house and they never find anything wrong.
I have five siblings and not one of them have ever offered any help with our mother. Four sisters and one brother and they all have ignored our mother. Not a Christmas card, no birthday card, no letters no calls to our mother. They can hate me all they want but to ignore their own mother is a shame. The sister who bullies me on the Internet has done nothing to help me with our mom. All she does is cause chaos. They all believe our mom has a lot of money stashed away somewhere but she doesn't. My mom owns her house but it is so old that it isn't worth hardly anything especially now. All of my siblings are just waiting for our mom to die so they can get their 'share' from the sale of the house. I have removed all of them from our mom's Will and the house will not be sold. None of them deserve anything.
None of them know what it's like to care for someone with this horrible disease. They all believe it's a cake walk but it isn't. My mother's memory is completely gone and she is only capable of brushing her hair and feeding herself. I have to do everything else for her.
I have researched cyber bullying and I know there are laws against this sort of thing but the laws are weak at best. Even being stalked can't stop these people. A detective told me that my sister and/or her husband would have to literally do physical harm to me or my mother for the authorities to step in. I find this unbelievable but I realize it's true. I suppose if I had not removed my mother from the facility and let my sister's husband take my mother out of state, I could have charged him with kidnapping.

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