I have a close friend. My ex. She got involved with an ex con who one night (about 2 mos. ago) strangled her to the ground and then when she tried to get up, he head butted her and split her lip which required stitches. She went to ER and reported it as a household slip and fall. Soon after she broke up with him. Two months after that incident, he apparently has gotten into her email and either from her account... or using "spoofing" tools... sent out those personal and intimate emails to people on her contact list to embarrass her. The recipients included her 16 yr old son and a teacher.
The email fraud apparently tipped the scale and she now wants to press charges for both : the assault and the internet email fraud. Someone she knows suggested the FBI can get involved with the email fraud... I am not so sure about that myself. Essentially some personal and intimate emails were forwarded ... either from her account after he broke into it... or via spoofing once he copied the email. I don't think one can even approach the FBI on stuff like that. Since he is an ex con... she is hoping that just a report on file with the FBI might be sufficent to scare him. And if she can get him on the assault charge... maybe he goes back to prison. She is in CA. Not sure where to start with all of this. I am thinking two mos. since the assault might be a problem in reporting it. She doesn't think he is on parole or anything like that right now.
Any legal advice?
The email fraud apparently tipped the scale and she now wants to press charges for both : the assault and the internet email fraud. Someone she knows suggested the FBI can get involved with the email fraud... I am not so sure about that myself. Essentially some personal and intimate emails were forwarded ... either from her account after he broke into it... or via spoofing once he copied the email. I don't think one can even approach the FBI on stuff like that. Since he is an ex con... she is hoping that just a report on file with the FBI might be sufficent to scare him. And if she can get him on the assault charge... maybe he goes back to prison. She is in CA. Not sure where to start with all of this. I am thinking two mos. since the assault might be a problem in reporting it. She doesn't think he is on parole or anything like that right now.
Any legal advice?