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I got these texts last night. I called and reported it and this morning I printed them and faxed them to the deputy that I spoke to. Tomorrow I go to court to make the order permenant as this is an emergency order right now. I know these are just texts, but if he is willing to violate the no communication rule and I ignore it, what's to stop him from just showing up?
I think I'm handling this correctly, I keep second-guessing myself.
You are absolutely correct in your thinking. I don't know the exact wording of your Protection Order but generally speaking there will be words to the effect of "having any contact whatsoever, in person or through others, by phone, mail, or any other means, directly or indirectly..." In short, he cannot contact you regardless of the type of contact. If he were to have a florist send you flowers and the card says: I love you and it's from him....he violated the PO.
In my experience, they will always "test" the PO by little things to see if you will follow through and to see what will happen. If he gets away with this, he will show up in person. VOP (violation of protection orders) almost always go through a progression and, if left unchecked, almost always gets worse. When it gets worse is when we read about it in the papers. I don't mean to scare you; just share my experience as a DV specialist in probation.
My daughters story is similar to yours and I helped her with an abusive boyfriend. I mamanged to get him charged with felony stalking. He was convicted and got 5 years probation after 6 months in jail. He is released now with a monitoring bracelet and the moron just threatended her again. Guess who is going back to jail.
Don't second guess yourself.....you are doing the right thing. The PO was designed to legally give you peace from harrassment of any kind.
When you go to court to make the emergency order permanent, tell the attorney for the State about the texts that occurred during the emergency order. Depending on your jurisdiction, they may charge him with VOP right then and there. Your emergency order is just as valid as the permanent one.
Take care.