Obviously stalking is a much bigger problem then most people believe. I point to the circulation of this blog – which deals with stalking. As of yesterday this blog is now being viewed in over 100 countries, and has had over 60,000 views per day.
It’s important to remember as we search globally for an answer to the not so easy to solve problem of stalking, that those hardest hit by stalking are the VICTIMS of stalking. Just as obviously there are so many victims both in this country and around the world, our daughter Morgan herself was a VICTIM of stalking, victims rights is becoming a huge issue, and it is well past the time for this to happen! In fact this year a constitutional amendment will most likely be passed dealing with victims rights on a national level.
Having been a victim of stalking as a parent, and watching my daughter be a stalking victim, and forced to pay the ultimate price, the one thing I can tell you without doubt is how her right to decency and fairness has been repeatedly trashed. Even after her death, the Forensic Pathologist, after repeated threats to me, changed Morgan’s manner of death from natural to suicide – he did this while completely ignoring that the test he ran in complete secrecy, in hopes of justifying his reclassification of death, found not only amitriptyline, as anyone would logically think would show up if you did another test, since it showed up in the 1st test that was run, but the 2nd test also found 5 other date rape drugs in Morgan’s system – so now it’s called a suicide…am I missing something here? Is this a common occurrence that a girl would commit suicide with a date rape cocktail? If so the rapists of the world have little to fear…especially in Garfield County! And of course this is after she steals all her own jewelry, and gang stalks herself for 4 months, follows herself in her car twice, and I am not sure how she managed to get people to show up in the middle of the night on our video surveillance cameras, or show up in our backyard in the dark while she was putting her puppy out to go potty, or having me witness the stalker on our porch, in our front yard, etc., etc. The point I am really trying to make here is that we have to find room in our hearts for the VICTIMS of STALKING, my family has lived through it, and it is horrific in every sense of the word. And there is one simple truth that I wish for all of you to remember – one day we were not victims of stalking and the next day we were – it happens that fast, that completely, and it may take years to put your life back together, as I have heard from other victims.
Part of the solution for stalking will always be caring, and compassion for the victims. If you know anyone that is a victim of stalking give them any help you can, because they desperately need it, and always remember that one day it could easily be YOU that is suddenly the victim of a stalker.
Steve and I, in our personal fight against stalking, will hold every government official accountable for what they did, or did not do, to prevent a crime that affects so many.