(With updates) The Truth about Emily Schooley in response to the Ralph Retort hit piece.
I have never told this story online before. I was told not to. This is the exact opposite of easy. This isn't my way. But serious public allegations of me and my husband being psychological abusers are now on the Ralph Retort. I have to respond before the cancer spreads.
Here's what it's like to have PTSD: You can be having a completely normal day. Then some sound, smell, spoken phrase or image makes you think about something really bad that happened to you.
I know this, because I spent a year in therapy for trauma, trying to get over the feeling that I was constantly under siege. I had trouble sleeping due to hypervigilence and nightmares. I had trouble concentrating because I was constantly afraid I was going to be attacked in my own home - that a brick or a rock would come crashing through my front window at any given moment, or that my dogs would be stolen from my backyard. I stopped going to social events because I was too afraid to leave the house. I had no sense that time had passed from the event. My brain kept periodically replaying it like it was still happening. But I could tell when 11:30 at night hit without looking at a clock. Because that's when I'd inexplicably start to feel afraid.
Because it was around that time that Emily Schooley and her now husband followed me to a Christmas party at the Brazen Head pub in Toronto on December 10th some years ago. I don't remember exactly what year. I think it was 2011. That's the thing about PTSD: it makes you forget critical pieces of information, which makes you a rotten witness. The police still aren't kind to people with PTSD unless you're the victim of a sexual assault. In my experience, when you're being menaced by another woman, York Regional Police will dismiss your complaint as a “catfight” based on an interview with the person perpetrating the harassment.
I remember it was December 10th though. Because for two years on that day, I wanted to die to escape reliving the fear.
It's really something, someone subtly menacing you in a crowded room. People knew what was happening, but everyone who knew was too afraid to do anything about it. I still have trouble talking to those people who played nice with her as she leaned over my lap, making me acutely aware of all the breakable objects that she could smash and embed in my cheek before anyone could react.
I don't even remember getting out of the building. I remember walking to the car with my husband and our friend, and sobbing in the back seat of my friend's car. It was humiliating: this friend was also a business acquaintance. He respected me. But I was broken and I couldn't hold it in any more. Because that in-person experience had been the straw that broke the camel's back after 9 months of online harassment, stalking, and defamation.
Of course, there were apologies from party organizers for the security lapse after the fact, and a lot of excuses. But the reality was that she could have done anything she wanted to me at that moment. I was too afraid to even breathe.
Emily liked knives, you see. She even posted a video on YouTube, talking about what she'd like to do to an anonymous person with them.
She also liked to cut herself. That's where this whole thing started.
The previous New Year's Eve, she had been flouncing around at a hotel party in her underwear. Nothing wrong with that, but she had pin straight marks on her chest that looked like they'd been made with a razor blade. It was making people uncomfortable.
So I pulled her aside and asked her about the marks. She said “Sometimes it just gets too much.” I responded “okay, this is me, letting you know that I know.”
See, I wanted Emily to succeed. I supported her. I thought she had a lot of potential.
Emily has always wanted to be an actress. She came into my life through her then-boyfriend, a guy named Declan Dennehy. Their relationship was a tumultuous one, punctuated by hotel room fights, smashed bottles, and jealousy-fueled impersonated status updates on facebook.
Some time later, Declan was mugged. Declan isn't the sort that talks about his emotions. He withdrew. Emily started spreading the story that he had a porn addiction that was ruining their relationship. Still, they talked about buying a townhouse together.
At some point, there was an altercation where Declan pinned Emily against a wall by the shoulders to reclaim his phone from her. She was using it to insult a woman named Jasmine through his facebook account. This version of the story came to me through a witness Emily provided to me when she made more serious allegations against Declan. She accused him of abuse.
(Edit: I have been told that there were actually two instances where there was a physical altercation over the phone. During the instance involving Jasmine Declan pinned Emily's arm over her head on the floor. The one against the wall was a previous incident.)
At first, she claimed he'd choked her. In a room full of people. I agreed to investigate the allegations. Witnesses she provided claimed it was consensual play. That Emily got off on it. (We all know now what a slippery slope that is.) But third parties were fairly adamant that there was no harm done by this event that happened at another room party, as well as the aforementioned incident with the phone, which witnesses described as an intent to restrain Emily because she was out of control, not choke her. (Edit: other witnesses to the event have now told me that in fact Emily was on the floor with her arm pinned over her head. So there are conflicting recollections)
Still, I watched the situation closely. I had a talk with Declan. I did follow up, counter to Emily's claims. Since Emily's own witnesses had refuted her story, there wasn't much more I could do.
A few months later, Declan and Emily celebrated Declan's birthday at a pub. (Edit: someone has told me that it was actually Saint Patrick's Day, which would fit the timeline.) I believe it was called McVeigh's. Emily apparently became jealous of two other women Declan struck up a conversation with, caused a scene, and spit on one of them. She was thrown out of the bar. Declan did not accompany her home.
My understanding, though I cannot confirm this, was that she was picked up by police on Bloor St after she verbally assaulted a stranger waiting for a bus. The police apparently determined she was drunk and took her home.
The next day, she claimed she'd been attacked in a home invasion, resulting in 14 stitches in her arm. I know this because she was supposed to work a booth I'd coordinated at a science fiction convention the next day. I found this out because I called her for a progress report that morning. She told me she'd been attacked.
My first response was “Oh my god are you okay?! You don't have to come in if you don't want to.”
She insisted she wanted to, showed up with a bandage on her arm, and spent more time fighting with Declan than actually doing work.
See, at this point, Emily's story was that it was a faceless attacker she did not know. She had apparently phoned Declan at his mother's house and told him she'd been injured. He'd met her at the hospital.
Emily seemed quite proud of the injury, even drawing a smiley face on it and posting pictures of that on facebook. The problem was, the wound was extremely straight and on the underside of her arm. It was a strange place for a defensive wound obtained while fighting off a home invader.
Furthermore, Emily claimed she'd been attacked while entering her apartment. However, March in Canada is still quite cool, and the coat she would have been wearing was not cut.
Emily later admitted to several people, including me, that the wound had been self-inflicted. So okay, she'd been embarrassed and made up a story to save face. We could accept that.
But things broke down in Declan and Emily's relationship from that point forward. Things blew up again on March 26, 2011. I only remember that day because it was world Epilepsy Awareness day, AKA Purple Day. We had organized a party in support of Epilepsy awareness.
Declan and Emily were fighting. It had been made clear to them that this party was optional to attend. If either of them felt they couldn't leave their issues at the door, they didn't have to attend. Emily initially said she would not come. She changed her mind last minute.
She showed up intoxicated and her behaviour was erratic. I ended up separating her and Declan twice from squabbles. I told them both that they needed to cut this nonsense out.
Late in the evening, I discovered Declan out in the hallway of the hotel frantically turning over things. He was looking for his cell phone. Then Emily forced a confrontation with me. I did not know at this point that she'd turned on me because she'd read text messages on Declan's phone where I referred to the “alleged choking incident”. She had stolen his phone. It was far from the first time she'd done this. It was completely in character.
Emily determined, based on the word “alleged”, that I did not believe her. She continues to claim this even though I explained to her that I use the word “alleged” when I am communicating regarding something of which I have no direct proof. She said “that's fair”, but to this day she claims I “protected an abuser”.
I became suspicious when a clearer picture of things emerged, however. I demanded she give Declan back his phone. She denied having it. She left the party eventually. Everyone was extremely upset.
Later, she texted my then second-in-command saying she'd “found” Declan's phone. She'd left it on his bed.
Emily had broken into Declan's house with his mother and sister sleeping inside.
Information started coming out then. She'd threatened and kicked Declan's dog Max. She'd been emotionally, physically and mentally abusing Declan. Whether it was one-sided or a codependency, I don't know. What I do know is that the situation was not as simple as Emily Schooley being an innocent victim.
The details between then and her following me to the Christmas party are outlined on the blog my husband wrote at the time. It can be found here. http://stevenjkerzner.wordpress.com/
Unfortunately, more continued. But the police advised me to not talk to Emily or about her, to avoid getting accused of harassment myself.
Unfortunately Emily has gotten a lot of traction and attention with this story. Because so few women lie about this stuff. I do not blame the people that believed her. I suppose it was inevitable that she'd try to jump onto the Jian Ghomeshi scandal to try to get more fans.
I don't deny that I'm a tough supervisor. I don't deny I've been too hard on people at times. But psychologically abusive? Protecting abusers? No. That is not me.
If I had protected an abuser, I would not have done two separate investigations at her insistence.
If I had protected an abuser, I would not have read Declan Dennehy the riot act before learning the truth.
If I had protected an abuser, I would not have spent two years of my life so frightened I contemplated suicide because it was the only scenario I could reasonably see as an end to this.
If I had protected an abuser I would not have withheld publicly mentioning Emily Schooley's name until today.
I did, at one point, believe her. But the facts were not in her favor.
To date, Emily Schooley has accused the following people of abuse in some shape or form:
Her ex-boyfriend in Kitchener
Her ex-boss, a video game developer she smeared with a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. I investigated these allegations too. I determined that the dev made some errors in judgement, but that Emily was overselling her story.
A former talent agent (this one may be true for all I know. She wasn't the only one making that accusation)
Her former landlord (She apparently defecated in the stairwell of the building. When he tried to evict her, she accused him of sexism)
A dental hygienist she went to with a Groupon
The TTC (Toronto's Transit Commission)
The Toronto Police Officer who arrested her on a charge of criminal mischief.
And then there's me and my husband.
Emily Schooley is the type of woman that makes other women afraid to come forward. She is that 2-8% of women who lie about being abused. She has, at this point, created a brand for herself as a victim. Her narrative, however, is far too simple and lacking in facts.
“Lie” is a harsh word, but hear me out. I believe Emily Schooley's campaign of terror against me is because she admitted to me that she hurt Declan's dog and cut her own arm. My character and credibility must be destroyed because I'm a loose end.
I think at this point, she believes what she's saying. She's had three years to repeat the story so often that she has convinced herself. But that doesn't make it true.
What is true is that I'm terrified of her, and people like her. Emily Schooley is a predator.
She knows what buttons to push, what tropes to exploit, and what stereotypes to leverage. She took over my charity organization's twitter, claiming that she was the owner – as a volunteer, she set up the account, so technically this is true. She has impersonated me on facebook. She has used sockpuppet accounts to threaten people on facebook and edit her own wikipedia page.
She has doxxed people and tried to get third parties to beat up Declan after putting both his home and work addresses online.
She even doxxed a pregnant woman who has stalkers because her job involves nudity. She put a woman and her unborn baby at risk.
I know all this because I hired a cybersecurity specialist to dig through all the anonymous online clutter to find out if it was the same person. I received a security report that confirmed my suspicions. I can make this report available to trusted parties to confirm its existence.
I'll also include the timeline I submitted to the police of the harassment that they determined was not criminal behaviour. I've removed people's names and addresses to protect their privacy. There's no denying that there are loopholes in our laws that prevent police from properly addressing cybercrime.
The worst part is, Emily Schooley still knows where I live. She has been to my house. So if I get doxxed now, she's a very likely source.
And she can get at me any time she wants, either directly, through third parties, (Edit: this has already begun. Various associates of hers have attempted to jump on the bandwagon, but fortunately far more people have come forward on facebook to confirm my version of events, including the self harm that Emily denies. I appreciate the support, including on unlikely places like the KotakuInAction subreddit which has periodically been quite nasty toward me. I'm glad that Reddit users know when to back off.)
or through press that does not properly investigate both sides of a complaint like the Ralph Retort, or political operatives with a grudge like Milo Yanninopolos, who linked to the Ralph Retort coverage on twitter and called me crazy.
I am not crazy. And I'm tired of being afraid.
I've lived with this for three years. I had to face the trauma over and over and over again, until it stopped terrifying me. I had to cut every indirect connection to Emily Schooley out of my life. I lost work opportunities because my security requirements were too “high maintenance”. I was accused of being a “drama queen”, an “attention whore” and a liar. I was attacked by feminist groups and people I considered friends made excuses for all this behaviour.
And every night at 11:30 for two years, I lived privately with the fear. I stopped myself from seriously hurting myself through late night calls to crisis lines. I've discovered that not all crisis lines are created equal. I actually called the St Elizabeth's Crisis Center so often that I got embarrassed at how much I was calling. I knew the crisis workers by name.
In part because of this stalking, in part because the television industry is full of bullies, I gave up on television. I couldn't share an industry with people who took delight in trying to destroy me. It was a good story. People believed her. People believed her because it was convenient.
And I found my safety in video games. No one knew the sordid details there, except for a few at that now-defunct studio who knew what she was really like. In the video game community, I've found people tend to favour direct confrontations over whisper campaigns. I prefer that.
But now she's found me here.
So I can't run anymore. So I'm making my stand here. I didn't start this fight. This fight started because I believed a woman who claimed she'd been harassed and attacked and investigated her allegations. I am being punished because I came to believe my eyes and ears over her account.
I can't be afraid anymore. I've lost too much of my life to this fear, to the anxiety, to never knowing when she'd be back, trying to take the life I've rebuilt from me yet again.
There comes a point in time when you just have to stand your ground. So that's what I'm doing.
So here's my stand. I don't know if the nightmares will come back. I don't know if I'll have to go back into therapy or if I can even afford it right now. But I believe there's a lot of good people who will read this and recognize the truth. I believe that people will rather know the truth than believe an opportunist trying to jump on modern headlines.
The abused can become abusers. Monsters come in many forms. I'd like to believe Emily Schooley is just sick, and so she can get help and stop this madness. But the part of me she tried to kill truly believes she's evil.
I'm done here. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Come at me, assholes. Tear me down, haters. This has to end.
Listen and believe is a complete crock of shit, if you ask me. Because listen and believe is just a popularity contest.
(Edit: She is now aware of these comments and is circulating misleading screencapped emails. One is, i believe, an email my husband sent about another woman who attacked Emily's character. The email showing we "tell people not to talk to other people" was an email that was sent after we defended Emily in an ugly altercation with another woman who did not conduct herself at all professionally or reasonably. This third party was demanding that I fire Emily to save a friendship, something I would not do as Emily had apologized for her part in the argument. It was an instance in which we took her side. The passages Emily blanked out make things seem different than they were. Furthermore, she did not release the complete email, only a portion. I could tell because I could make out the name of the person my husband was talking about in the very last line, which was only partially visible. Emily has this email because she was one of the people sent it. If I'm correct in my read of the highly edited email, it was an email sent to the entire charity organization committee. It's not unusual to alert volunteers to a troubling situation and tell them not to engage a disgruntled former colleague. It is not unusual when working with a charity to insist on separation from someone who is not behaving in a manner that reflects a charity's mandate. In this case (again if I'm reading it right) it was a warning about a person with a serious medical condition that was affecting their state of mind and behavior. This email was not a smear. It was an internal communication advising caution, perhaps not worded ideally since it was written in a moment of distress after witnessing disturbing behavior.
Needless to say, when someone does not release a complete email they say is proof of wrongdoing, the claims become highly suspect.
The second facebook conversation she released is authentic, but it's an instance of the party organizers telling me one thing and Emily another. This is what I meant when I said excuses were made.
The third screenshot is a message from a media personality and personal friend my husband did call on March 31st, 2011. We'd been told Emily was getting palsy with the guy's girlfriend, who is now famous in her own right. This was not an attempt to destroy anyone. This was an attempt to stop another media couple from falling into the same trap we had. It would not have been human to do otherwise. Contrary to media reports, some people in Canadian television actually do care if other people are at risk of being preyed on, and we do something about it. This causes us to become victims of accusations of "psychological abuse"... which is why most people aren't brave enough to do what we did. If more people took the risks required to stop other people from falling prey to a predator, the headlines of late would read very differently.)
Emily Schooley Harassment timeline
New Year’s Eve, 2010 – Notice self-cutting marks in numerous places on Emily’s body. Discuss this with Emily. Emily also talks about having a miscarriage.
At some point, Emily begins claiming Declan is abusive, looks at porn, claims he choked her. Talking to the witnesses Emily recommends results in no corroboration of her story. Declan had pinned Emily to a wall to get his phone back, which she had stolen to post nasty messages about another girl from his facebook account.
March 12th: self-cutting, fake attack incident occurs after Emily is thrown out of a bar for spitting on another patron. Emily claims she was attacked by an unknown man. At approximately this time, Emily admits to kicking Declan’s dog [REDACTED]. She also admits she threatened to kill [REDACTED] if Declan left her.
March 26th – Emily and Declan both attend Purple Day at [REDACTED]. Emily steals Declan’s phone again, breaks into his house. Causes altercation, wanting to “Say goodbye, because it’s better this way”. The look in her eyes and her refusal to drop it even after I told her that she needed to go home and sleep it off made me very afraid. She would not leave for quite some time. A second argument happened between us when we discovered Declan’s phone was missing and I demanded she give it back. She denied having it. Later, she texted [REDACTED] to tell him that she had left the phone on Declan’s bed. She had been told to stay away from his house, which he shares with his mother and sister. (filename: Emily text 001, 002)
I found this whole experience very scary, mainly because of the look in Emily’s eyes as the conflict escalated. She didn’t seem herself, and she seemed to be getting an almost sexual thrill from the mounting conflict. It left me deeply, deeply disturbed.
March 27th approx – Emily says that she is angry at me because she read that I used the word “alleged” in reference to the “choking” incident. I told her that I was not there, did not witness it, and I was not about to use definitive language in writing to describe an event I did not see. She said “that’s fair”, but is angry again a few days later. Eventually I told her to just go away, stop contacting me. (Discussions were via BBM and phone calls. When she blocked me from BBM, I lost that log of the conversation) She begins referring to me as a “shamer”, a form of abuser.
April 4th – Emily contacts again, because she was angry about a random facebook comment I made on [REDACTED]’s wall about crazy women. She insisted it was about her. She attempted to claim that this email (filename: Li “apology”) is an apology. She sends a second email to my husband Steven, saying “I want to be a good person, not a monster”. (Filename: CALogo.png)
April 5th. Steven and I both respond. We both repeat that we want to be left alone. (Filenames: Li response and CALogo.png) Emily is blocked on facebook, twitter, and email, but text messaging is left open as a possible form of communication at the advice of her disability advocate, [REDACTED]. He believes that a hope of forgiveness would be good for Emily. I comply, not wishing her harm. I just want the badmouthing to stop.
(At some point here on a Wednesday (new comic day), Emily showed up at Declan at [REDACTED] Comics, leading to a panicked phone call from [REDACTED]. I urged Declan very strongly that he needed to get a restraining order. He applied for one.)
April 7th – I resign from a job coordinating a fashion show at a convention called Anime North because I cannot concentrate on the job due in large part to the bullying of Emily and her friends. (Filename: Anime North Resign)
April 13th – After refusing to agree to stay away from the charity event [REDACTED] at a science fiction convention called [REDACTED] Emily is informed by convention organizers that she is must leave the hotel [REDACTED] I understand she became very angry.
Later that night, Emily sends a threatening message to Declan using an alias, Mirah Samui, targeting his female friends. (Filename: micahmessage01-1) I become afraid again upon seeing this a few days later, and call the police for the first time.
Also in April, I stopped attending pub nights that were get-togethers for geek girls after trying to negotiate with Emily that we would attend on alternating weekends to avoid conflict. She refused claiming they are HER friends, and I couldn’t keep her away from them.
Friday April 15th – After Emily finds out about our book club meeting [REDACTED]we have to pretend to cancel it to prevent her from showing up without making her enraged. She chastised my co-organizer, [REDACTED], the next day, and has since snubbed him noticeably at events.
April 18th – (It was the Thursday of Passover that year) I was told by the former organizer of the pub nights to stop “getting her caught up in drama”.
April 29th – 31st – had to have Emily banned from the [REDACTED].
May 1st – The anti-Futurecon blog Futurec0n is established, likely a collaborative effort between multiple parties. (Futurecon is the new year’s eve charity event I run in support of Epilepsy Toronto.)
May 13th – Court Date with Declan. Emily contests the peace bond, and publishes Declan’s address on the internet, attempting to incite violence against him.
May 16th – Emily makes her abuse allegations public on her blog, emilyschooley.com, referring to Declan by name.
July 1 – 9: The Futurec0n blog begins making the rounds on facebook through an account called “No Futurecon”.
July 8 – Emily follows [REDACTED] to Canada’s Wonderland because she saw on Facebook that they were attending. [REDACTED] Those photos caused my sister-in-law, [REDACTED], who lives walking distance from the theme park, to become frightened that [REDACTED]was going to show up at her house with Emily, and this was also communicated on Facebook. She called me crying. I wrote [REDACTED] to inform them that I was afraid of Emily. (Filename: Emily Terrifies Wonderland)
This close contact made me concerned that Emily was going to cause yet another incident at [REDACTED] science-fiction convention the following weekend. Due to that, and other circumstances, I limited my involvement with that event, and went nowhere alone when I was at the hotel. She was banned from the awards show that weekend, the [REDACTED], due to her poor conduct. I continue to avoid events, especially involving a group called [REDACTED], who has at least one event a month.
September 9 – After a brief period of relative quiet except for a few more threats from the Mirah Samui facebook account that did not involve me, Emily compares herself to Ed the Sock (my husband’s character) on twitter. She also begins contacting people I talk to through that service to spread her stories about me (email from [REDACTED] as proof)
September 12 – Blog post discusses “neurohacking” as her alternative to proper therapy, including discussions about being a “pretty big fan” of drugs and alcohol, and referencing that an ex-boyfriend told her she has a substance abuse problem, and criticizes mood stabilizers. (screencap of blog entry filename: drugs and alcohol)
Oct 2nd – Emily posts the video blog “Revenge”
Oct 28th – Emily texts me (filename: blackberry text), and accuses me on twitter by name of bullying her. (Filename: Oct 28th) I have had no contact with Emily that I can recall since the email of April 5th . She was apparently reacting to a tweet of mine from that day that mentioned “people”, not a single individual. Until that point I didn’t know that Emily had any knowledge of anything on my twitter feed, as she was blocked.
Oct 29th – Declan and I avoid the Silver Snail Halloween party because of my fear that Emily will show up. She does, and once again proceeds to zero in on [REDACTED], even though they have blocked her on facebook after the Wonderland incident.
Dec 2 – [REDACTED] twitter account appears. Publishes [REDACTED] real name and informs a stalker that this information is there. [REDACTED] is five months pregnant and is terrified. She works for the [REDACTED] under the stage name [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] posts on the blog for his internet radio program, [REDACTED], talking about the situation. The vast majority believes the only person capable of the twitter comments is Emily.
Dec 4 – Emily comments on [REDACTED]’ blog, denying she is responsible, and linking to her own blog, objecting strenuously to being accused without proof, although [REDACTED] himself did not accuse her. This causes a great deal of shock and disbelief at a meeting I was attempting to run for Futurecon, where there was internet access, and someone tried to check the page.
Avoided [REDACTED] Party at the Charlotte Room because Emily was listed as attending. Declan went, and Emily “accidentally” spilled a drink on [REDACTED]. This is far from the first time.
Dec 5th – Emily posts another video blog accusing Declan of causing the cut on her arm from back in March.
- NerdGirlPinups.com publishes an article I wrote about bullying.
-I make the first contact with Emily since April 5th by commenting on the [REDACTED] blog that I find her handling of the situation to be in poor taste. I repeat “leave these guys alone”. I also point out the hypocrisy of her complaining about treatment she commits against others: ie: publicly accusing people of horrible things without proof.
Dec 6 - [REDACTED] account appears on twitter, publishing [REDACTED] home address, which is unlisted and kept quite private. Emily had access to that information, because she helped her move. I am among those hashtagged by the account, to draw attention to the information. (filename: [REDACTED] Being Harassed)
-Emily responds on the [REDACTED] blog, referring to “what happened between us”, and referring to being “deeply hurt by” my previous actions.
Dec 7 – I respond at length to Emily’s reasoning. (filename: An Open Letter…) Emily’s response to this contains “ Is it any surprise that someone who is constantly told that they are bad/worthless/evil/crazy/violent/fat/ugly/stupid is likely to start believing that about themselves and act accordingly?” These are all things she claims to have been called.
-On her blog, she publishes her own article about bullying.
- I email [REDACTED], Emily’s disability advocate (she is claiming some sort of psychological condition, most likely borderline personality disorder). I suggest a moderated conversation so that Emily can “vent her spleen, since she’s been hinting at it.” (Filename: Offer of moderated conversation)
-Emily sends an email to [REDACTED] claiming that she has hired a lawyer 10 minutes from where I live, and tells him “don’t tell Liana”. This causes me to be afraid that she is using the “I’m in the neighborhood” rationale to come to my house. (filename: Emily’s Lawyer)
Dec 10 – Steven and I attend the [REDACTED by request of the organization] Christmas party at the Brazen Head Pub to be part of an announcement that the 501st is going to donate $3000 to Epilepsy Toronto in honor of Futurecon. Emily was not invited, and was blocked from the facebook group. Sometime after midnight, Emily arrived with her fiancé. They made their way all the way across the bar to where I was sitting in a corner with [REDACTED]. More detailed description given in the first statement given to Constable Cresswell.
Dec 11 - I call York Regional Police. I am informed by [REDACTED] of the 501st that Emily has been permanently banned from all future 501st events, because of her behavior the night before. (filename: Christmas Party Invite)
Dec 12 – Emily posts a Facebook note called “Why I am not attending Futurecon this year” (Filename: Why I Am Not Attending Futurecon This Year) The note includes multiple defamatory lies, including:
claims that I mistreated [REDACTED], a person I have not had a direct harsh word with, since I didn’t know her very well.
That we were lying about her threatening to kill Declan’s dog to make her look bad
That I caused someone to lose their job
Dec 13 – Emily adds to the Facebook note to claim my husband threatened her, and to contradict her previous statements by claiming that SHE was the one that offered the moderated discussion. (filename: Emily Facebook 3)
-She also begins contacting people who respond to my tweets, linking them to the defamatory facebook note
Dec 14th -15th – Numerous angry references to me, quoted lines from me, and even copycats of memes I’ve posted are made on twitter. Emily also makes a comment that she is “missing playing with guns”. (filename: Missing Playing With Guns)
Dec 15 -My husband creates a wordpress blog to set the record straight, on the advice of our lawyer. Our lawyer is concerned that sending Emily a cease and desist letter will just create another target for her obsessive grudge that will cost us a lot of money. http://stevenjkerzner.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/okay-enough/
Dec 16 – Emily publishes a Facebook note “Dirty Socks Need Bleaching”, once again claiming she is being persecuted. (folder: Facebook Dec 16) She publishes photos of a brief text conversation between her and [REDACTED], trying to paint Steven as a liar.
