Man Jailed After Sending Facebook Friend Request to Estranged Wife

Absurd.

Not condoning the husband's behavior...no contact means no contact. The wife could have and should have blocked his name and set up her privacy so he could have never found her on FB. A very easy thing to do.

The idiot wasn't jailed for a facebook request, he was jailed for violating a protection order. He happened to use facebook to do it. Let's stop with the BS headlines.

So many people keep their facebooks open to anyone. You can check their photos, etc. This guy could check all the people that are her friends and just keep clicking until he finds someone who has his/her fb open. Then go in and click on that person's wall and hopefully, for him, his ex will be there chatting away with this friend. If you have a restraining order against a violent person, make sure that your friends have their FB on complete privacy.

He knew full well a facebook contact was indeed a contact. What a wacko. This woman is well rid of this psycho; I wish her all the best while the cyberstalker rots in jail, where he belongs!

It is amazing the hatred in the country.... take a look in the mirror... YOU?

Just the point of him trying to contact her is punishible, plus if you read carefully he friend requested her twice guess he couldnt get the hint. Thats what you call stalker

He can say what he wants, but you can't get a court ordered injunction without some sort of valid proof that there is a need for one. Therefore, he must have done something to warrant it and isn't all so innocent, regardless of what happened to her in the past.

He was wrong and that is that. Does he need to be wasting jail space for something this trivial? I doubt it. But then again, who knows what he might be capable of.

Pasco county fl is one of floridas nastiest places. Its full of hillbillies, inbred white trailor trash and meth heads. The average IQ in pasco is 50.

there has to be more to this story, i tried to involve the cops when someone was friend requesting me and sending me all kinds of messed up messages and they told me thee was nothin they could do because someone couldve stole their password, hence, there was no way to prove that it was that person who was actually doing this kind of fucked up shit ya know.... idk, maybe the laws are differentin florida...
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I find it very interesting on what each person has said and I think that everyone has a valid point but in the end there is nothing that we can do and it has already been done.

There has to be more to this.... because i once had this person who kept sending me friend request's and nasty msg's and i tried to get the cops involved, and they told me that there is no way to know if it's really him, hence his password might have been stolen and someone could just be makin it look like its coming from him so....... there definitly must be more to it, unless the laws are drastically different down in Florida ya know...

that's nothing new, my [estranged] nephew blocked my brother [his now-estranged dad] from his facebook so my brother can't contact him anymore. the young man was emotionally spent after his granfather's [on his mother's side] died. as a result his father, and his own aunt [me] was barred from the old man's funeral my nephew igored him at the wake, and was "tackled" bouncer style by his ex- brother-in law! who warned him that they are "gonna lock him out if he shows up at the church" that family had no right to do that to my brother! and he should've fought his ex-wife for custody of his 4 now grown up children! [and his ex showed up!] because it was HER dad! such hypercrates his ex-in law's family was! they let the dad's kids [ and his absent son's spouse] go to the funeral, yet they already shut out their dad, and disinvited their aunt!.....on their dad's side!

Unfortunately laws here in Florida aren't that much different. It's very hard to prove that the person is the one actually sending the messages. There is no way to prove that it's the person. Like the police told you, the passwords could have been stolen, they could have left the computer window open and someone came behind them and so forth..The only way you can maybe prove it's that person (and it's very slim chance) is that the person refers to something personal or known only to you and them..But like I said that is a very SLIM chance and it's hard to prove.

If you get a restraining order against someone, that person is not supposed to contact you in no way shape or form. That means no tweets, no facebook, no myspace, no texts or phone calls and definitely no 3rd party contact. Again, contact thru myspace, facebook or emails is very hard to prove because there is no way to know 100% that the person that sent the message is the person. This man violated the restraining order by sending the petitioner (ex wife) the friend request, regardless of whether she accepted or not. The contact was made and therefore the violation occurred. If he would have sent a text even if she doesn't respond he has already violated and the same goes with a phone call regardless of whether she responds or not. It's still considered a violation and depending on the state, can carry a jail term of 1 year.

What, hes such a jovial looking guy. I can't imagine anyone ever wondering just how far from the edge this guy is. Which then begs the question, what ledge is he close to? Free air or postal?

What part of "NO CONTACT" didn't he understand in that restraining order? No sympathy from me.

What is a facebook?

No contact means no contact. He violated the order and therefore showed no respect for the authority of the judge who signed the order nor the woman it was issued for.

JUDGES GIVE OUT R/O LIKE CANDY.....IT IS A COMMON TOOL USED BY PEOPLE JUST TO BUST CHOPS..QUITE A JOKE.....