unsigned statement

[charmed1966]

hi my daughter awas recently questioned by police over some abusive texts sent from her phone by a friend. however she cant prove her friend sent them and of course the friend is denying all knowledge but when the police interviewed my daughter they forgto to get us to sign the statement does this have any effect on the case if it goes to court?? thanks

[ummmm]

exdc - I said 'more' seriously.

I find people are quite dismissive of cyber abuse. Like if it's written down then it's only words.

[woofgang]

Can you not close down your account to friends only?

[boxtops]

Some friend, charmed - how did they get hold of her phone?

[exdc]

**Ummm

Report thefacebook problem to the police who will assess the facts and inform you what can be done etc. If the offender is an ex-parner then it will classed as domestic related incident, a aggravating feature.

[ummmm]

My account is friends only. This person opens a new FB account to send these messages. He doesn't add me as a friend...just sends a message.

exdc - It's not an ex partner...it's a banned user from AB.

[exdc]

Ummm, thats just terrible. If this situation continues to escalate then save screen shots of the messages etc which can be shown to the police for initial assessment if you decide to report the matter to them. Just for your info, this has beyond the tele-comms offences as mentioned and amounts more to criminal harassment. Threats to kill is also an offence.

I dont use Facebook but do they not have an effective reporting system?.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry to hear this ummmm and I hope you get it satisfactorily resolved and thereby avoid the stress and hassle involved. It is not nice ving your "space" and integrity questioned.

Not amiss though to some of the hassle that has come through on AB and then resulted in the situations that Salla and others have recently faced..............

[ummmm]

I got an equally disgusting one today....and another new name...

[Eve]

I'm sure I had it for a while that I could prevent myself from coming up in search results and could stop anyone who wasn't on my friends list from sending me a message. Not sure if that's still possible though but could be worth looking into.

[Eve]

Found it, go into "Account", "Privacy Settings" then click on:

Connecting on Facebook
Control basic information your friends will use to find you on Facebook. "View settings"

You can then set it for your messages to be received from friends only.

[roxie_09]

it's definately worth reporting to the police ummm, especially if the threats are becoming increasingly worse. even if the messages have been deleted, they are able to contact facebook and have a history of all messages sent to you bought up, so the evidence increases.. x

[ummmm]

I still have all the messages....

[woofgang]

lock your FB account down to friends only...simples

[roxie_09]

i would contact the police, make them aware of the situation. they may not do anything specific at this time (depending on what their views on the seriousness), but if anyhing else is then sent through, it can all be added together as a larger case, if that makes sense, rather than being one singled out complaint. it will be a series etc, not sure if im making much sense, i do opologise if i dont! xx