I am currently being taken to court on charges of harassment, however I am actually the victim in this case. Petitioner is explicitly seeking to have me incarcerated, presumably because she wishes to punish me for “ghosting” her 20 years ago. She is also seeking to silence my online voice in an effort to cover up her crimes against me since August 2024.
Twenty years ago, the Petitioner and I were literally engaged in the most beautiful, sincere, loving, and respectful relationship I have ever known. We were together twice in high school, in two “acts” – Sophomore Year and Senior Year.
Petitioner ended our first act, right before Junior Year, since my quarrelsome mother was meddling in our relationship and affecting her peace. We would later reconcile in our Senior Year, but only after declaring separate colleges during our intermission in couplehood. Thus, due to circumstances beyond our control, we were once again forced apart. Petitioner came to New York to attend St. John’s, and I went to the University of Texas at Austin. Without her by my side, I spiraled into a funk. Sensing failure in my life, I made the worst decision of my life. I did not want to ever lie to the Petitioner, nor did I want her to ever reject me again. So, I made the choice to ghost her. We did not speak again until 2019.
Roughly around 2017, I sent the Petitioner a friend request on Facebook. She accepted, and I started following her posts. Then, in 2019, while working for a hotel in Times Square, I sought her assistance with a technical project. We spoke for the first time in roughly 15 years, and I apologized for my cruel & misguided behavior in the past. I thought it strange that a Vice President of Technology for a home renovation company would send me to “Angie’s List” when I asked for local I.T. referrals, but didn’t think much of it at the time. I figured she was blowing me off.
In late August 2023, I began hearing the Petitioner’s voice in my head. On October 9, 2023, it sounded like I was being summoned out to the Merillon Avenue train station. From there, I called her and asked her to pick me up, explaining that I was having a crisis. I made no mention of the voices. We had not seen each other in 19 years, and our reunion was hastened. Ultimately, I asked her to drop me off at the Emergency Room of Long Island Jewish Hospital-Northwell in Lake Success. When we arrived, we said goodbye, but I did not go inside the ER. Instead, I rode my scooter through the hills of New Hyde Park, feeling as though I was being chased by spirits playing a game called “Witches and Warlocks,” (but it was more like “Simon Says”) …with the Petitioner’s heart as the prize. I eventually laid motionless on the ground to comply with the voices. Emergency services responded, and I was held inside Zucker Hillside Psychiatric Hospital for 8 days.
While in the hospital, I contacted Petitioner to rescue/feed my pet cat. She collected my keys from the hospital, retrieved Cali from my home in South Jamaica and found a foster home for her. On October 17, 2023, I was released from the hospital. On that day, Petitioner met me at Mineola Station and returned my keys. We hugged briefly.
I would continue hearing Petitioner’s voice in my head into the new year. I made repeated trips out to Long Island that winter, where I wept for her. In my mind, I felt as though she could actually see me on my journey.
Still haunted by voices (mostly the Petitioner’s) for which I could not determine the source, I sought solace in the Bible. I found profound meaning in 2 verses: Genesis 2:24 and Ephesians 5:31, which both describe the second “act” Petitioner and I shared in our Senior Year. It would also suggest that we may have a preordained connection together. I believe the Petitioner currently has a misguided spiritual compass, and I frequently reference wanting to see her saved throughout our “anonymous” messages in the Fall/Winter of 2024.
In her recent motion, Petitioner states, “I returned home to find Respondent at my home. I was overcome with fear. Despite the sound of my car pulling into my driveway, Respondent proceeded to my front door and did not turn around. I exited my car and yelled at the Respondent to get off my property and to stay away from me. Disturbingly, through all of this, Respondent did not face me. He stared at the door, hung a loaf of bread, and turned no less than 10 seconds after the commotion.”
However, the white Toyota sedan she arrives in is not visible in the driveway through the foyer glass as I am seen hanging the bag of focaccia on her door (2nd photo.) The car is visible (together with her) in the 3rd photo, after I’ve already placed the bread.
In May 2024, I began receiving harassing, demeaning, perverse, and threatening e-mails and text messages. They were sporadic and seemingly unrelated to the Petitioner, until August 2024, days after I had collected my pet cat from the Petitioner’s veterinarian friend. During an exchange that spanned several days, it became abundantly clear to me that the “anonymous” party at the other end of the line was actually the Petitioner. Specific details about our earlier years (Acts I & II) were made that only the Petitioner could know. (For example, the termination of our pregnancy.) To this date, I have received menacing messages from no less than 10 unidentified (but real, 10-digit) phone numbers, in addition to anonymous “No Caller ID” calls, going back to August 4, 2024. Each time I pick up the phone, there is silence on the opposite end, until the calling party began dialing digits (often 9-1-1) before hanging up.
EXHIBIT A – 40-page text conversation between Petitioner & Respondent.
EXHIBIT B – Call records from Respondent’s cell phone showing 278 “No Caller ID” calls
On August 26, 2024, a close friend and confidant – who has been an ally throughout my recent psychiatric malaise – received libelous and damning allegations about me via text from 516.XXX.XXXX. This phone number belongs to the Petitioner. Although my friend states he also received doctored/”deepfake” images depicting me in compromising positions, I have not actually seen the images since my friend fears breaking any laws related to CSAM. He immediately informed me, and provided a signed affidavit outlining his text encounter with the Petitioner.
EXHIBIT C – Libelous messages sent to my confidant. Reverse-search on phone number, 516.XXX.XXXX. Written statement from Nathaniel Richardson.
Initially, I did not divulge Petitioner’s identity online. However, as the threats of killing me, or worse – framing me for possession of child pornography – intensified, I simultaneously revealed the Petitioner’s name in a Facebook post and began filing police reports in Queens & Nassau Counties, whenever & wherever the messages intensified to suggest impending doom. I was fired from my job at The Garden City Hotel specifically for contacting the police to document these credible threats on my life & liberty. I was told that I should have waited until after my shift to call the police. However, it was crucial for the officers to witness the inbound messages/threats & No Caller ID calls appearing in real-time, as Petitioner has falsely suggested these communications were actually coming from me.
Suspecting Petitioner to possibly be involved with a Federal agency, I also filed complaints with the FBI and the DOJ Office of the Inspector General, but never heard back from anyone. I came to believe the petitioner is a federal employee, after I conducted a reverse lookup on her actual phone number of 20+ years (210.XXX.XXXX) only to find phony identities and no record of her name. Additionally, in our (“anonymous”) conversations, she stated that, “smoking weed in public is illegal.” Under Federal Law, that might be true. After filing my complaints identifying her by name, Petitioner became angry, insisting, “I never fucking did anything to you.”
EXHIBIT D – More messages received from “anonymous” phone numbers
Between November 2, 2024 – December 20, 2024, I began receiving more threatening text messages from another unknown phone number. These included death threats and sexual propositions.
Exhibit E – 117 pages showing 1296 messages sent/received from an “anonymous” phone number.
Last Friday, January 3, 2025, I received a phone call from “Detective Whalen” at the Nassau County Police Department. He tried to discredit the extensive evidence I have that these threats were actually coming from the Petitioner, and he then suggested that my close friend (the one who previously wrote the affidavit implicating the Petitioner) was actually responsible for sending the threatening messages. My friend categorically denies this, and I believe him.
Although I did deliver focaccia to the Petitioner’s house on October 26, 2024, I did so after receiving 3x “No Caller ID” phone calls that afternoon, which I strongly feel came from the Petitioner herself. At the time, there was no protective order in effect. I have neither texted nor initiated calls to the Petitioner on any of her known contact numbers since our last court appearance. On the recent dates where Petitioner observed me walking down busy thoroughfares, I was more than 700 feet away from her places of residence & business. Excluding screenshots of texts with my “anonymous” attacker, I have not directly typed or uttered any form of Petitioner’s legal name in a public forum or online post since October 27, 2024.
Petitioner has asserted in her “anonymous” text messages that she wishes to render me homeless, if not banish me outright from the State of New York. She has made it clear through her ruthless actions, terroristic threats, and unholy deception that she wishes to punish me for my past transgressions & infidelity. While she may deny sending them, the content and duration of those messages can only be described as a prose manifestation of a woman’s scorn. Like a heartbroken wife exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband. I believe these disturbing messages (and possibly, phone calls) have all originated from the petitioner. No other party would have motive or knowledge of the intimate information contained therein.
Having reconnected with me via text for the past 7 months (or longer, spiritually) by her own choosing, I am left to suspect Petitioner does, in fact, want and need my loving attention. Following the subtext gained re-reading our volley of messages these past months, I interpret her lashing out as a cry for help. I have reached a milestone in my spiritual journey that could be beneficial to her relationship with God. If Petitioner disagrees, I will not make any further contact with her on her known phone numbers (210.XXX.XXXX and 516.XXX.XXXX) or e-mail addresses. I will never again visit her home or place of work uninvited. Perhaps most importantly, I will not allow my “psychoses” to convince me to do anything remotely illegal or contrary to this court’s rulings. Petitioner can always text me from one of her known numbers, if she wants to see me. Although roughly a dozen psychiatric and social professionals have implored me to change my phone number throughout these ordeals, it will stay the same: 332.XXX.XXXX.
I have never threatened the Petitioner in my words, writing, or actions, a fact she attested to at our previous hearing on October 23, 2024. Nothing has changed since then, and nothing will harm my eternal goodwill towards her. Furthermore, I have no intention of breaking my 2004 vow to always love her. In doing so, I intend to continue my ritual of leaving a single gerbera daisy in a public space (well outside any minimum distance directed by this court, to avoid further litigation.) Should I choose to document the journey online, I will not reference Petitioner or any related parties – without their permission – again.
I have not received any haunting text messages or unidentified phone calls since December 20, 2024. The final inbound texts that day only carried weak insults instead of terroristic threats. They seemed to come from a confused, scared, and hurt person who finally knows how important they are to someone but cannot see their way through the current situation.
I believe Petitioner is playing games with the legal system, and this protective order has been filed in order to divert the focus from her defamatory, harassing & terroristic actions against me in Summer-Fall of 2024.
I wrote and posted a version of this affidavit on my public Facebook page on January 7, 2025. After midnight, the morning before we were scheduled for court, Petitioner’s lawyer sent me a proposed agreement that would withdraw her petition to send me to jail. Unfortunately, that draft agreement mandated that I would remove any previous posts referencing the Petitioner, either indirectly or directly. This would leave me vulnerable, if she ever chose to make good on her threats to kill me or frame me for possession of CSAM. I respectfully declined, and sent a counterproposal. As of this writing, I have not heard back. Oh, and Petitioner’s lawyer called-out sick at the last minute, so we are rescheduled for February 18, 2025. Almost seems like they want to keep my testimony out of the court. Petitioner has submitted reams of evidence against me, some of which is grossly exaggerated or demonstrably false. I have not had an opportunity to submit anything before the court, as of yet.