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In reply to the discussion: What makes you decide to make a big life change? [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I was targeted by a registered sex offender and his gang of thugs for 24x7 harassment because I wasn't interested in any sort of relationship. The harassment escalated for 3 years, during which time the condominium manager (whom I've come to believe was from his family) what little physical evidence of his harassment there was.
It was hard to get the police involved. The town where I lived had ~15 years earlier been named by Fortune magazine as the safest small city in the US and was now named as one of the 3 most dangerous small cities in the US due to an influx of ethnic gangs. And in Massachusetts, at the time, sex offenders were a protected species.
When I finally was able to get them involved they told me they had a file on him an inch thick and a mile long. That was all they were able to tell me about him. But they said I needed to get out of town because they couldn't protect me.
So I sold my condo and moved to Maine. I lost my career and much of my life savings. I've been hanging by a thread ever since.