‘I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner’: How one US man uses Facebook to frighten his children’s mother and why police do nothing

Dominique Ward is trying to protect her children from their father’s electronic harassment. — Chicago Tribune/TNS

CHICAGO: Shortly before Christmas 2022, Dominique Ward made an unplanned stop at Target to do some last-minute shopping with her three-year-old daughters.

She was miles from her home, in a neighbourhood where she didn’t know a single person. She assumed no one there knew her or her girls, either – until the following day when someone sent her a screenshot of a Facebook page belonging to the girls’ father.