Facebook mom ordered to keep quiet about kids online

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NY Daily News

BY DOYLE MURPHY

A wacko New Jersey mom is under judge’s orders to shut her cyber mouth.

A Garden State appellate court ruled the chronic oversharer can no longer post rants on Facebook or other sites about her ex-husband or children.

The woman — identified as H.L.M. in court papers — referenced serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Satan and Hitler in “irrational, disturbing, bizarre statements” included in a series of online posts directed at her family, a judge said.

The woman, a former patent lawyer and electrical engineer diagnosed as bipolar, was apparently still upset after she was busted in 2011 for snatching her kids and fleeing for Canada following a custody battle. Authorities arrested her at the New York-Canadian border on kidnapping charges.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/facebook-mom-ordered-quiet-kids-online-article-1.1797104

[OKNancy]

1. Wonder what her DU screen name is?

[Omaha Steve]

2. Wait for it....

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Heh. +1 n/t

[Major Nikon]

12. DUzy!

[maddezmom]

14. ....

[toby jo]

3. I've got a neighbor who is bipolar.

Nothing but trouble for her husband when she's off her meds. I was told last week that 'we don't like people coming over at the house. ' Went there to pay for some straw I'd bought from them. Thirty years old and nobody can come up to the house. What a picnic that must be.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Unless the kids are famous, she isn't "the press" and she CAN libel them on Facebook

so her civil rights are not being jeopardized.

[Demeter]

6. I am trying to reconcile this with the First Amendment

I didn't think a judge could order someone not to libel...and Facebook isn't exactly like public news....could he order someone to stop sending personal letters, phone calls? Unless he charged her with stalking...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. She's on probation. I think that's a big factor.

[Demeter]

10. That would make sense. Good point.

[msanthrope]

16. In a custody situation, your 1st Amendment rights can be curtailled....more specifically,

you will face consequences for posting or doing things that violate a judge's order.

[salib]

7. One more "side-effect" of Reagan's "morning in America" for the mentally ill.

Attitudes (and more importantly realities) have changed so radically since then.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

Sympathy, on so many levels, are probably the better response to all of this story.

[DesertDiamond]

9. I've lived with bipolar people on more than one occasion. The most recent was a mother and daughter

team, both bipolar. No matter how much you love them, living with them is pure hell.

[Shrike47]

11. I suspect she won't comply with the judge's order when her MI is active.

The situation must be hell for the kids.

[840high]

13. She needs help.

[davidthegnome]

15. What a terribly written article.

Seriously? A "wacko New Jersey mom"? In the opening line? Interesting... if I were to compare the writer of this article to a steaming pile of dog shit in my opening line, could I write for Nydailynews too?

"Chronic oversharer" hehe. I mean, seriously, this is supposed to be journalism?

Does this "bi-polar chronically oversharing wacko" have the right to now sue this idiot journalist for libel? Will a judge order him to shut his cyber mouth? Cyber mouth? Seriously... who comes up with this shit?

Hell, maybe she is crazy, maybe she is bi-polar and chronically overshares - and says all kinds of crazy shit all the time. Regardless, this article is still shit.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

17. It got yer attention

in somewhat of an outlandish way didn't it? But isn't the article all about what is outlandish ?


The first line is also the bottom line and it's up to you the reader to make that connection.

Still though the shit's flying isn't it ? And isn't that the point ? Been going on for a few years hasn't it ?

So , where does it begin and where does it end ?

The shit I mean as in put a period end to it . LOL.