Is talking smack about your ex on Facebook worth going to jail for? I guess we’re about to find out.
40-year-old Maureen Curoe of Belfast, Northern Ireland was in a long relationship with a guy named Adrian McAleese, but they broke up three years ago. And ever since then, she’s been blasting him and his new girlfriend on Facebook.
She would post lies about Adrian, she called his new girlfriend nasty things, and she even made up a fake Facebook account to send them obscene messages.
So Adrian finally called the police, and Maureen was in court this week.
The judge decided the posts weren’t a legitimate threat, but he did put a restraining order on Maureen’s Facebook use. If she mentions Adrian or contacts him on Facebook in the next two years, she’ll go to prison for five years.