Kansas Focuses On Stalking?

Yes, you read the question correctly. WIBW has reported that Kansas is (ahem, cough, cough, cough, smirk, giggle, cough) focused, because January is National Stalking Awareness Month, on reducing the number of stalking incidents in Kansas! Where's the eye-rolley when I need it?

In March of last year, a woman whose son's romantic overtures had been consistently rebuffed by a young girl at Frankfort High School, in Marshall County, Kansas, decided to stalk the girl's mother by following her through Frankfort one evening and getting out of her car when the girl's mother parked at her home. Instead of using the principal's office as a place to promote her son's wild oats and desirability as a prom date, the woman wanted to use the front lawn of the girl's family. She also wanted to blame the girl for her son's obesity and the resulting medical and self image problems. The magistrate judge in Marshall County denied the family a no-stalking order.

Later on, during the summer, the son of the Marshall County prosecutor took a drive through the cornfield of a Marshall County farmer. He used a vehicle belonging to his parents, the same vehicle he has used on mailboxes in Marysville, Kansas, in the past. (information courtesy of neighbors and victims) No protective orders, as of yet, have been issued against this particular hoodlum to ensure his arrest should he revisit the homes and properties where his tire tracks have been found in the past; yet, a random citizen was almost blamed for damage to county attorney's vehicle, damage which most likely incurred while her own child was using the vehicle to vandalize the property of others! The Marshall County magistrate judge thought that this was proper, until the random citizen consulted an attorney. When the Marshall County prosecutor realized that she was going to have to begin to pay out of her own pocket for her frivolous legal actions and accusations against innocent citizens, she ceased her false accusations of the random citizen, yet did nothing to warn others to protect themselves and their cornfields, gardens, and mailboxes from the real threat and the vehicle used for damaging property. So much for stalking awareness in Marshall County. Any anti-stalking laws in Kansas are only used in Marshall County as a form of harassment, not as a form of protection. Those who truly need protection are denied.

Fast forward through a couple of seasons of threats and harassment to stalking victims in Marshall County, followed by denials of protection orders from the magistrate judge. The day after Christmas, the lawn of the family of the above mentioned Frankfort stalking victim had a drive-through visit by a vehicle belonging to the family of the stalker that they had in March. The sidewalk was also used as a street for vehicular traffic. Law enforcement declined to make an immediate report about the incident. Very early the next morning, the same vehicle plowed, once again, through the victim's lawn, grazed her front porch, and proceeded through the neighbor's front lawn. Had Angela Hecke, magistrate judge of Marshall County, Kansas, seen orders against trespassing and stalking as anything besides political tools to be used against Jews, and other non-christians, perhaps the family experiencing the threat of getting run over by vehicles could have had an order in place, ensuring attention from law enforcement at the onset. It's hard to imagine that Kansas is focused on stalking when a magistrate judge encourages repeat instances of drunk children driving on sidewalks, into lawns, and up to the front porches of victims.