Protection Order A Must For Victims Of Stalking Or Domestic Violence
Have You Been Stalked And Require A Protection Order? How And Where To File Locally In The State Of Ohio
Statistics show that 8% of American women and 2% of American men will be stalked at some point in their lives. This means that 1.4 million Americans are stalked every year. And while some times the perpetrator is related to the victim, often times they are not.
A Civil Stalking or Sexually Oriented Offense Protection Order is very similar to a domestic violence civil protection order, however they seek to protect victims even if they are not a family or household member of the abuser. If a victim has been threated with physical harm or mental distress more than once and the incidents are closely related in time, then he or she may be entitled to a Stalking Civil Protection Order, and a victim of a sexual offense can seek a Sexually Oriented Offense Protection Order after the first threat according to Ohio Revised Code §2903.214.
In order to obtain either type of these protection orders, the victim must first file a petition for such in the general division … Read More... “Ohio Stalking and Sexually Oriented Civil Protection Orders”