[Kathryn_V]

How have you all been??

Missed ya!

Sorry for bailing on ya so suddenly!

A quick note... Please take me as an example and be VERY CAREFUL what you post!!! The reason I left was over my time in Criminal court, where I, as a victim, testified against my attacker. The lawyer for the man who attacked me showed up in court with page after page of threads printed off of Yorkie Talk. Posts make by me and by many of you! They were entered into evidence and read aloud. Snippets of the truth were used. Not even full sentences, but only the words that they thought would help their case. My life was exposed, bits of it that I had shared with my YT family was exploited in a court of law and twisted to suit the defense's needs. It was sad, shameless and totally their right. This is, after all, a public forum. Anyone and everyone has access to it! There is no privacy here, and no amount of trust in the friends you have here can protect you from everything, every last word posted here, being used against you someday. I found that out the hard way. I was blind sided by my own words while sitting in a courtroom in front of a jury!

I am very happy to say that I was not ashamed of anything I said nor do I feel that anything I have said was inappropriate, but if anything I said had cast even the slightest bit of doubt in a jurors mind and had set that man free I would have been devastated.

I just want to educate everyone, as I come back to YT, of the dangers associated with sharing personal information. I'm not talking about your address, your phone number, your birth date. Those are facts. I'm talking about rants, about your PERSONAL information. About your life, your financial state, your happiness, your health, your whatever... If you post that your sick, THEN you get insurance.. you could be prosecuted for fraud! And your post is PROOF! Just THINK before you POST! you may never have your posts used against you... but that's what I thought! I also thought I was safe in my hospital bed! That I would never be attacked. That I would never be sitting in a courtroom being question and accused in front of my attacker! But I was!

You never know!


All of that aside.... I am happy to be back and I look forward to posting about everything else!!! Pets and food and clothes... LOL There is so much to tell! LOL I really have missed you all!