Hi i am new to the mumsnet my first time posting.
I would like some advice about my 16 yr old daughter. My daughter started getting bullied at the age of 14 and had taken overdose it was that bad we were so shocked and saddened that things had got that bad for her and felt powerless at the time. We got her in to see a councillor and it has been a rough ride but she got through it and was getting back to the happy go lucky daughter we all knew and loved thank god.
My daughter then had her first real boyfriend when she was 16 and she was even happier then as she said she did not feel so alone anymore everything was great until i noticed that he was becoming a tad controlling and i had a little chat with her about it as you do and she had noticed the same and said what should she do i said maybe she should speak with him about it and if she felt that it was getting out of hand to end the relationship considering what she had already been through with the bullying at 14. I was a bit worried to say the least. My daughter came home one day after our discussion and said she had ended the relationship as he was getting worse. I was pleased as any mother would be by this time she was 16 and 8 months. Since then til now she has constantly been harassed by abusive phone calls from him and his sister & mother. This has been all very upsetting and stressful and last Saturday the sister and her friends were shouting abuse & threatening her in our local McDonalds and my daughter was scared and the manager threw them out.
Tonight my daughter and her friend were walking by local shops and the sister was there with 6 other girls hurling abuse and saying fowl things in public and my daughter ignored them and carried on walking so the sister and her friends ran up to my daughter and was screaming and shouting at her and was very threatening and my daughter was shaking at this point and thought the girl was going to hit her so my daughter grabbed her hair first out of fear and there was a bit of a scuffle then the sisters mother appeared and broke it up screaming at my daughter saying she is reporting her to the police. My daughter rang me in tears and was in a state shaking and said could i go pick her up.
Got home made her a sweet tea and told her to have shower and put PJ's on and we would cuddle up on sofa then the phone rang it was the police saying my daughter assaulted the sister and implied my daughter was the offending party which was not the case but she did grab her hair first but out of fear of what she was going to do to her. My daughter and i are now worried that police will charge my daughter for assault as it will show that on CCTV outside shops that my daughter grabbed her hair first but that was not what is was really like.
What could the police do to my daughter as she has never been in trouble ever and she has been constantly harassed by this girl.