Kerri Michelle Wolfin pleads guilty to using Facebook to harass tenant
A 47-year-old Cooloola Cove landlord has faced a court following a three month-long campaign of harassment targeting her tenant.
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A Cooloola Cove landlord has been fined $700 by a Gympie court after carrying out a campaign of threats and harassment against her tenant on social media.
Kerri Michelle Wolfin posted the Facebook messages targeted at the 53-year-old woman over a three-month period stretching from November 2021 to February 2022, the court heard.
The harassing messages included telling the victim to go back to her family in Victoria, and labelling her a “disgrace to women” and a “nasty, disgusting, filthy, putrid piece of crap”.
Not even a bail order preventing her from using Facebook could stop Wolfin’s campaign.
The 47-year-old breached the order twice by continuing to post harassing messages on the social media platform.
Wolfin pleaded guilty to six charges in total including three counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass and cause offence, two counts of breaching bail, and one count of obstructing police when she was originally arrested on November 25, 2021.
Representing herself in court and with no prior criminal history, Wolfin told the court she was now being treated for a bipolar disorder and had been “very unwell” at the time.
“The stress and pressure got too much for me,” Wolfin said.
The court heard at the time she had just moved to Queensland from Tasmania and did not know anybody.
“All I had was Facebook,” she said.
She also said she “didn’t read the paperwork” she signed as part of her bail conditions, which ordered her to stop using Facebook but claimed she had since deleted her account, sent several apology letters, and spent time in the mental health branch of Nambour General Hospital.
The tenant had now vacated the apartment, Wolfin said, and she had sold it.
“I wish it had never happened,” Wolfin said.
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