(Public records will reflect all this information and more, but I’m redacting names and other identifying information anyway.)

Girl1 files a petition for a restraining order against Girl2, which was heard in my court this morning.

Girl1’s petition says she doesn’t know Girl2, but that Girl2 has been harassing her through the mail, Girl1’s work phone, home phone, and cell phone. Girl1 assumes that Girl2 got her address through a search and got her phone numbers through Girl2’s husband’s cell phone statements. (Hmm.) Girl1’s only actual contact with Girl2 was through phone calls made by Girl2 (allegedly 60+ calls), but Girl1 has a tape recording of some messages left by Girl2 (“slut” this and “slut” that, “your parents must hate you,” etc.) which she brought to court today, and a letter that Girl1 says Girl2 mailed to Girl1’s entire block of neighbors. She brought the letter with her today, too.

Girl2 filed a response, saying that Girl1 had conveniently failed to mention in her papers that Girl1 had initiated an affair with Girl2’s husband of 20 years, and that Girl1 knows of Girl2’s existence from that. I’ll now refer to Girl2 as “Wife,” to help make this less confusing. Wife admits to having contacted Girl by phone, saying after she found out about the affair, her husband had given her Girl’s phone number and “encouraged” her to call Girl with any questions. Wife admits to having called Girl obscenities in these phone calls, but claims she did not threaten Girl, nor call 60+ times, nor send any letters, nor did she know Girl’s address and other information. Wife said she doesn’t want to meet, learn anything about nor have anything to do with Girl, as Wife and her husband are reconciling and want to just put the affair behind them.

Wife did not come to court to defend herself today. Girl testified tearfully, saying she wants to apologize to Wife for the pain she cause in Wife’s marriage, but that the harassment has gone way above and beyond. The letter that Girl brought is apparently a folded bulk-mail type flyer with Girl’s address as the sender, and her neighbor’s address as the recipient, addressed to “RESIDENT”. Except this one letter, along with a few others, were returned by the post office as undeliverable, which is how Girl came to find out about these letters. It says:

Hi my name is [full name], I am your neighbor and I live at [street address]. I just want to let you know that I love having sex with married men, and I love giving head.
I am a desperate 38 year old home wrecker. Give me a call. Are you gonna come lay with me tonight?
Hm – [home #]
Cell – [cell #]
Are you gonna come lay with me tonight?

Girl describes, through her tears, how her phones ring off the hook with strange men calling, asking inappropriate personal questions, and she’d see strange men drive by her house, looking in her property, and she feels unsafe in her home. She doesn’t know if these are friends of Wife’s or if they’re people who’ve received the flyer, or both, but believes at least some of the rude and vile phone calls are from friends of Wife’s.

She did get the restraining order granted, but only for 1 year instead of the maximum 3, and it was just a no-contact order since there was no proof that Wife ever physically approached Girl.

Geez. Is this karma?