Genevieve Sabourin, a 41-year-old actress, has been sentenced to six months in prison for stalking and harassing Alec Baldwin, plus 30 days for contempt of court. Sabourin claims that she and Baldwin had a "brief romance," and she was simply trying to find out why he chose to hit it and then subsequently quit…
4chan, that bizarre cesspit of the Internet that most people know to avoid, recently celebrated its 10th birthday. And with the rise of the website came the rise of the Chan — a pantheon of 20 or so young women who gained a huge following for posting photos of themselves on the site's image boards.
A recent magazine feature on a man with Asperger syndrome who's currently in jail for pining after the girl of his dreams — who, in his mother's words, "became a nightmare" since he met her 20 years ago — implies that he's the real victim. The woman he's stalked since middle school feels differently.
When you become romantically interested in a guy you just met what's the first thing you do? Google him. Find him on Facebook. You gather intel (a series of photos in which he's seemingly very familiar with a pretty young woman?) which you then analyze (oh, OK, she's just his sister) to create a composite of his life…
Facebook is useful for so many things, and yet mostly what it is good for is providing you with new and technologically advanced ways to feel miserable. One of the most effective weapons Facebook offers in the quest to destroy your self-esteem is the ability of people to defriend each other. Nothing cuts deeper than…
After Foursquare cut off access on Saturday to the charming "Girls Around Me" app that made it possible to view
If you're a woman and you've been outside, chances are, someone has whistled, hollered, or muttered "daaaaaaaaaamn" — unsolicited — at you. Street harassment is so prevalent that Hollaback factions have sprung up around the world. Unwanted sexual attention is offensive, irritating, intimidating, depressing and violating. …
When I was in high school, I was raped. Last year my rapist found where I was, possibly thanks to the detailed information on the directory website Spokeo. The point of this article isn't to scare people, but to share my experience and help other people who have been found through these sites understand that they…
Part of me thinks it's too soon to be writing about this because I don't think I've completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I'm still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a…
A Minnesota investigation has found that police in the Land of 10,000 lakes are using the state's DMV database like non-cop internet perverts use Facebook — as their own stalking wonderland, a veritable cornucopia of pictures of unsuspecting hotties ripe for the gawking. One woman was horrified to discover that without …
It was adorable in Bridesmaids when the very charming Officer Nathan Rhodes met Kristin Wiig's character, Annie Walker, while pulling her over for a broken rear light. But things don't always turn out so nicely in real life, as one police officer in Stickney, Illinois, discovered the hard way.
Government officials are agog at the results of a survey that found that 1 in 5 women have been victims of rape or attempted rape, and that the number of rapes reported to authorities are dwarfed by the actual number of rapes that occur. Did none of the shocked attend a freshman anti-rape seminar in college?
Some outreach programs aim to help victims of stalking — but now one clinic is targeting the stalkers themselves. Can psychotherapy for stalkers keep their victims safe?
A woman in Houston is being charged with felony stalking after calling her ex boyfriend over 1,000 times in three months, breaking his kitchen window with a five-foot sword, and documenting her heartbreak on a rambling blog dedicated how she couldn't understand why that goddamn bastard didn't love her anymore.
Robert James Moore was simple American with a simple dream — to love and cherish Queen Elizabeth as providence intended. And when Queen Elizabeth wasn't receptive to his amorous overtures, hundreds of "strange and offensive" packages containing tokens of his affection in the form of 600-page letters and obscene…
In the most horrifying and bizarre story of relationship malfeasance we've heard in a long time, a man is charged with harassing his girlfriend under fake names and sending explicit pictures of her to her friends and family — all while they were still dating.
A 42-year-old Dutch woman was charged with stalking for allegedly calling her ex-boyfriend 65,000 times in the past year. At a hearing, she insisted that they were in a relationship, so the number of calls "wasn't excessive." Aside from the alleged victim, we feel bad for the best friend who had to come up with a tactful …
Former prosecutor Kenneth Kratz won't face criminal charges for repeatedly sexting an abuse victim while prosecuting her ex-boyfriend. However, investigation into his "misconduct" did turn up some other accusations.
Bobby Franklin, a (gasp!) Republican from Georgia, has introduced a bill to change the civil and criminal codes of the state so that victims of stalking, rape, and domestic violence must be called "accusers," not victims. Oh my fucking god.
On his self-professed stalking of a woman after one date: "She gave me some line of baloney, and I thought, 'well, she's fibbing to me.'" Not only does he sound like Ned Flanders, he may also be lying about it.
Florida Gator Wide Receiver Chris Rainey, known most recently for his September arrest for threatening a woman with a "TIME TO DIE, BITCH" text message, returns to the field today against the Georgia Bulldogs. You stay classy, Urban Meyer.
Here's a worst-case scenario for you.
Erin Andrews was on Capitol Hill yesterday to advocate for a bill that would include newer technologies in federal anti-stalking laws, as well as expand the definition of stalking. It just passed in the House. How badly is it needed?
"I saw that you checked in there on Foursquare," said the stranger calling the restaurant where Shea Sylvia was dining. He suggested they "hang out," adding, "You probably shouldn't be telling people where you are on Foursquare, should you?"
When one writer asked her parents how they met, the answer was basically "Daddy relentlessly stalked Mommy until she gave in and married him." A charming tale — and one we've heard a few too many times.
Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who was stalked and videotaped naked, appeared on GMA this morning to discuss the sentencing of her stalker (he got 30 months). Andrews admits she had a "meltdown" at the courthouse:
Clare Waxman's life was ruined by a stalker - she was plagued by anxiety and fears for her family's safety for seven years . So why is sixteen weeks of jail time considered a just punishment?
Neighbors are (predictably) shocked at the arrest of Michael David Barrett for stalking sportscaster Erin Andrews
A new survey claims that professors are more vulnerable to stalking than the general population, and that male professors suffer it nearly as often as women.
The NY Times' Elizabeth Olson had a great piece on stalking this weekend. Basically, not that many people report it, laws are inadequate and police can be apathetic. Tell me about it
