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To think the police telling her this mean she’s will be arrested next

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Loveconedown777 · 06/05/2026 19:35

Police gave her words of advice over online harassment. Does this mean an arrest is likely if she does it again?

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CaptainMyCaptain · 06/05/2026 20:32

Loloblue · 06/05/2026 20:23

Bloody hell. Way to support your kid!

Why? She's being realistic and preventing her from getting into further trouble. Better than taking the 'my child can do no wrong' line you see on here so often.

SoScarletItWas · 06/05/2026 20:31

Didn’t we answer this the other day? And pretty much all said - if you’ve been given words of advice it should warn you to stop whatever you’re doing, or next time it could be a caution or arrest.

Whatever you think the other person is doing to ‘provoke’ you.

LittleGreenDragons · 06/05/2026 20:29

No idea OP. Depends on your force and depends on the harassment (how often, how malicious). But even if she gets arrested the CPS might not bother with it.

Loloblue · 06/05/2026 20:23

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 06/05/2026 20:15

My daughter (unfortunately) got involved with a dispute with her friends. And they said some nasty stuff to each other via text and voice notes. The other girls mother reported them both. A nice police officer came and had a word with her. He said if it happened again she would have to sign a community resolution order. This caused loads more messages back and forth so he came and she did indeed get this order. If it happens again it could go to court and will show on a DBS etc. They are 16! It’s not like years ago where anything could be said and it would blow over. Malicious communications is taken very seriously. She has however learned her lesson and has learnt to reel herself in. I know she’s a little witch when she wants to be and think it was deserved. She won’t do it again for sure though!

Bloody hell. Way to support your kid!

PoppinjayPolly · 06/05/2026 20:21

Have you posted a lot about this and it’s you harassing someone and won’t leave them alone?

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 06/05/2026 20:15

My daughter (unfortunately) got involved with a dispute with her friends. And they said some nasty stuff to each other via text and voice notes. The other girls mother reported them both. A nice police officer came and had a word with her. He said if it happened again she would have to sign a community resolution order. This caused loads more messages back and forth so he came and she did indeed get this order. If it happens again it could go to court and will show on a DBS etc. They are 16! It’s not like years ago where anything could be said and it would blow over. Malicious communications is taken very seriously. She has however learned her lesson and has learnt to reel herself in. I know she’s a little witch when she wants to be and think it was deserved. She won’t do it again for sure though!

SilenceInside · 06/05/2026 20:11

If the police have advised this person to stop what they’re doing then if they keep doing it, there will be next steps. Eventually that might be arrest and a criminal charge. Perhaps a caution might be suggested before that happens.

Is this person likely to heed the police advice and stop her potentially criminal behaviour?

donotmissyourchancetoblow · 06/05/2026 20:09

Not necessarily but if the online harassment is worth the police speaking to the person “she” needs to grow up and stop. Take the advice given to her. What does the online harassment look like, what is “she” doing?

MissMoneyFairy · 06/05/2026 20:07

Loveconedown777 · 06/05/2026 19:35

Police gave her words of advice over online harassment. Does this mean an arrest is likely if she does it again?

Is this you, what,more details are there

Jellybunny98 · 06/05/2026 20:06

In short- no.

“Words of advice” is really just an informal warning.

There’s a longgg way to go and other steps before you’d be anywhere near an arrest. If she persists it could potentially lead to a formal caution.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 06/05/2026 19:38

Nobody knows due to the total lack of detail in your op.

Did you mean to put this into ChatGPT?