Janet,
We have a neighbor who doesn't like my 16 yr old easy child. One day he called me, and proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs how he was going to come over here and rip his freaking arms off- I hung up, called husband, husband called the man back, but he didn't answer. Thinking he was on his way over here, I went to the police station. I told the cops what happened and they asked me if I wanted to press charges. There wasn't even a witness. This man was told lies by his own son what happened on the bus, easy child never did a thing to anyone. But his son is a true blue difficult child, while easy child has still never even had a detention. Anyway, the point is that you HAVE RIGHTS, you want to press charges, you want to go before a judge. Those cops handled the situation wrong, and they even heard the threat. You have to get to someone in charge, or just someone who cares. You would think the cops job is to help make sure people are safe in their own homes. (My neighbor was foung not guilty although the judge believed he did it, because he said he didn't think the man should lose his casino license for this-which is what would have happened. I do take comfort in knowing he had to pay thousands in legal fees)-If I could press charges for that, so can you for this, which is way worse!-Alyssa