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03-04-2008, 10:37 AM | #1 |
Out to Spoil the World! Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Palm Springs, California
Posts: 2,709
| Hey everyone! 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!
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03-04-2008, 11:05 AM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: CA
Posts: 62
| wow and very true. |
03-04-2008, 11:14 AM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anaheim
Posts: 588
| I'm so sorry that happened. But it seems like you are in better spirits, and I hope you are doing better now! Its horrible how defendants have more rights than victims, been there and unfortunately, done that.
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03-04-2008, 11:16 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: texas
Posts: 5,272
| Kathryn, I have missed you and wondered how you were doing. I am so glad that you are back. Hope you are doing much better. You have been in my prayers.
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03-04-2008, 11:21 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southern Maryland
Posts: 1,739
| Welcome back...with open arms!!!! You sound like you handled yourself well given the situation you were in and I pray you will continue to heal from this point on.... hugs to you!
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03-04-2008, 11:22 AM | #6 |
No Longer A Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW YORK
Posts: 16,218
| Welcome back Kathryn. I read that you were going threw some rough times but hopefully that's behind you now and all good things ahead. |
03-04-2008, 11:27 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Glad to see you back and thanks for the great warning. Hope everything is looking up for you.
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03-04-2008, 11:39 AM | #8 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Glad to see you back, I know a lot of people were wondering what happened - but we knew there was a lot going on in private. I hope things are getting better. I hope you are able to heal now too, after such a long ordeal. Hugs.
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03-04-2008, 11:47 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Long Island
Posts: 6,095
| Nice to have you back!
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03-04-2008, 12:18 PM | #10 |
Tiny Dog Big Heart Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Texas
Posts: 6,205
| So glad to have you back, Kathryn!
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03-04-2008, 12:39 PM | #11 |
Lil' CoCo, Lotta Coffee. Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Africa
Posts: 3,115
| Welcome back. It's good to hear from you. I hope hope life is treating you well. Sheilagh
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03-04-2008, 12:42 PM | #12 |
Izzy's Momma Too! Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stuart, Florida
Posts: 8,799
| Welcome back sweetie!!! You've sure been through some major sh#t and from now on things can only get better, right?!?! I hate that they were able to drag your posts into court, holy moly~!
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03-04-2008, 12:43 PM | #13 |
Love My Li'l Lucy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California
Posts: 6,700
| I'm so happy you are back. I hope life is on the upswing for you at this time
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03-04-2008, 12:47 PM | #14 |
Lovin' to the MAX!! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkieville
Posts: 2,774
| Holy crap! HOW did they even think, or KNOW to come HERE? That's really really SCARY! I hate to say it, but I guess my hubby is right about some things; he's warned me about putting too much out there...anywhere on the internet. Geeze, I hate it when he's right . But it IS scary...esp when you think about blogging on myspace or even like dogster. UGH...one more thing to worry about .
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03-04-2008, 12:55 PM | #15 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
Posts: 5,056
| Hello Kathryn, nice to see your back!......It is so true what you are saying, I always think about that when I see someone post their personal issues on here....it's to bad but we live in a whole different world now, what's posted on here lives forever.......I hope you are one of the regulars again and stick around!.....
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