US jury acquits woman in stabbing of alleged stalker who sent revenge porn to her children

The incident followed years of alleged harassment in which the man recorded a sexual encounter without Maria's consent, created a fake Facebook account to send a video of the encounter to her teenage children and showed up at her workplace "on a daily basis," Valerie Ibarra, a spokesperson for the public defender's office, said in a statement announcing the acquittal. — Image by fabrikasimf on Freepik

A San Francisco jury acquitted a woman of felony assault charges in the stabbing of a man she said stalked her and sent revenge porn to her children, the public defender's office announced Monday.

Public defenders accused the San Francisco Police Department of failing to “meaningfully investigate” the woman’s claims of self-defence and said she had been “wrongly criminalised”. They identified her as Maria, but declined to provide a full name, citing her status as a stalking victim.