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October 9, 2007
Deaf woman sentenced for making harassing phone calls
A 21-year-old deaf woman was sentenced Wednesday for making numerous harassing phone calls to her ex-partner.
Kathleen Paula Foshay made the calls using a telephone service that allows one to type a message which is then relayed by an operator to the recipient.
Foshay was sentenced Wednesday to a suspended sentence with 18 months probation for the Jan. 8 incident. Judge Michael Sherar admonished the woman for using a phone service important to deaf people to make the harassing calls.
He noted that those calls took up the time of an operator. Sherar asked the woman how she would feel if there was an emergency with her daughter, but the phone system was tied up.
“Quite frankly, your abusive use of that service perhaps put other lives in jeopardy,” Sherar said.
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Posted by 4HL on October 9, 2007 3:52 AM
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