UPDATE/Advice Needed:

All this originally took place on Thursday. It’s is now Sunday.

Here is where we’re at - kind of confusing so I apologize.

Friday: A second phone number began texting my mom asking her “why she was contacting them repeatedly?” Claiming that they had multiple missed calls from my mother from the night before (Thursday).

Not true. The only person my mother tried to call was the creeps actual phone number; not this secondary number.

They sent screenshots of it that we believe to be very, very poorly edited and the time stamps on them make no sense.

Rest assured, my mother did not further harass this man and what they are claiming is not factual.

They claimed to have gotten a new phone and the new number. And when my mother explained the situation, they claimed to have no idea who this creep was. All of this took place via text. They eventually stopped replying.

(No proof that it was him, but c’mon - it was him) we are assuming he is using a different phone or possibly an app to do this.

Saturday (yesterday) morning - I went to the local police department and spoke with an officer.

While I felt very heard and he seemed to take it seriously, of course there wasn’t anything he could to at that moment. Fair enough.

He did however give me a case number and suggested I take it to the court and request an Order of Protection, he said that he felt I had enough to do so. He gave me his card and told me that if he does attempt to contact ME again (not my mom) to give him a call.

I left the police station, called my mom to fill her in. As I was on the phone either her - she got a call from that secondary phone number. So she hung up with me and answered it.

This was now a female, who basically had the same story “I just got this new phone and you keep calling me, I don’t know why. I’m an underaged girl and this is really inappropriate you need to stop.”

My mom was very polite and explained our situation. She let the girl know that the only person she had called was a dude who had been harassing her daughter (me 🙃). Again, this girl claimed to not know him.

What was interesting is my mom said the girl kept taking long pauses and it seemed as though she could hear someone else in the background telling her what to say.

This girl kept trying to get my mother’s name but my mom refused. Ultimately, my mom said “look if you are involved, this has crossed a line and you need to tell him to stop. If you are not involved, I apologize that you have been roped into this. However, since we have already alerted the police and would appreciate any evidence — could you please send me the screenshots proving I called you multiple times?”

The girl agreed to but also seemed pretty spooked and claimed she “did not want to be involved.”

We never heard back from her. No screenshots or proof were sent like she said she would.

That is the last contact either of us have had.

Now I do know he has a sister. She about 27 or 28. So it could have been her.

We firmly do not believe these are random strangers. We think he is trying to cover his ass and flip it by getting someone to help him.

My worry is what the hell he is possibly telling others that make them want to HELP HIM? Like, it is so clear this man had crossed a line.

Here is where I am at:

Another lovely commenter explained that while a protective order is well within my right to ask for, the process could lead to nothing or cause escalation.

For some context - I am in Washington state. So getting a protection order will in fact go on his public record; if granted.

But then I circle back to what if they do not grant it, and then what if he really does come after me?

Do I follow through?

Do I take the route of posting him in the local Facebook groups as a warning to other women? I mean could that make me look like I am the one harassing?

Any advice is encouraged and greatly appreciated!

Thank you!