Dear Queenie,
Why do you keep telling people to go to the police when somebody is pestering them? Don’t the police have more than enough serious crimes to deal with, without having to bother with this kind of thing?
Queenie, why don’t you tell the people, or their parents if it is about children, how to deal with it themselves, instead of getting the police involved and making a mountain out of a molehill?—It’s no biggie
Dear It’s no biggie,
You’re wrong. What you call “pestering” is bullying and/or stalking, and that is definitely a “biggie.” Bullying is anti-social at best and abusive at worst. Stalking is also sick and anti-social behaviour, as well as being illegal; it is a form of mental and emotional rape.
Both are likely to escalate and should be nipped in the bud before the perpetrator does something that will “shock the entire community” and attract media reports.
The culprits must be made aware of the seriousness of their behaviour and should receive psychological treatment for the underlying causes. Also, the community must be protected from them.
The victims also need help, if only in dealing with the psychological effects of this kind of mental, emotional and often physical abuse.
