A man was charged with cyber bullying and stalking and is awaiting sentencing. A man has been charged with cyberstalking and stalking for allegedly calling his ex-girlfriend 815 times and sending her thousands of messages in 48 hours. If he is convicted he could face up to 5 years in prison . According to a March 27 United States Department of Justice press release, Derik Wayne Bowers , a 44-year-old Maryland resident, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Martinsburg.
According to a March 27 United States Department of Justice press release,
Derik Wayne Bowers
, a 44-year-old Maryland resident, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Martinsburg.
The storm of calls and text messages and on Facebook would have been triggered in December 2022. In addition, it was said that Bowers had been harassing her for months by sending her messages and that he constantly embarrassed her with posts on her networks.
Derik Bowers is 44 years old.
He could face up to 5 years in prison. Derik Wayne Bowers, 44, of Hagerstown, was charged on Monday with one count of cyberstalking for allegedly harassing his former partner through text messages, phone calls and via Facebook, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia said.
He also reportedly sent her thousands of text messages over several months, and “used social media posts to embarrass her and interfere with her livelihood.”
If convicted, Bowers faces up to five years in prison.
“Cyberstalking is a pervasive problem that we treat very seriously in West Virginia,” US Attorney William Ihlenfeld said in the official statement.
“I encourage those who are being intimidated online and who suffer substantial emotional distress as a result to file a police report so that wrongdoers may be investigated and held to account.”
The charges come after a man in the UK earlier this month was sentenced to 17 weeks’ imprisonment for harassing a BBC presenter over Facebook.
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