ASHLAND, OH – For more than six months, a 65-year-old resident of Ashland has endured relentless harassment, intentionally exacerbated by the negligent misconduct and professional bias of at least one prosecutor within the City Law Director’s Office. The conflict involves the senior citizen’s daughter-in-law, who has maintained a consistent campaign of intimidation and threats. “She show’s up to my workplace, she has threatened to have me thrown in jail, she has threatened both of my sons, she made me lose my home, she calls me names and tells me I’m brainless, she’s pretty much ruined my entire life and nothing was done”! Despite the victim providing substantial evidence, including screenshots of calls and text messages to the Ashland Police Department – no effective action has been taken and the harassment as of this writing is ongoing and completely unchecked.
On July 1, 2025, Officer Grant Lifer met physically with the victim, taking her statement and instructing her to report any further incidents – which is standard when initially investigating a case such as harassment. Several days later, on July 6, 2025 the victim once again made contact with Officer Lifer, this time with additional new screenshots of threatening text messages and more documentation in relation to incoming phone calls since the two had last spoke. She also provided the Officer with a courtroom video (embedded within this article). Officer Lifer then began pursuing what he believed to be charges of telecommunications harassment and upon the discovery of an active civil protection order in place against the daughter-in-law by her husband, he believed what would be additional charges in regards to violating said CPO. Ohio law clearly prohibits causing the mental distress of anyone that resides within the household of the victim in a civil protection order.
In regards to the June 25, 2025 video Officer Lifer had been provided, Common Pleas Judge Emily Bates asked the abuser in court if she would be willing to communicate with her mother-in-law to facilitate contact with her children and she responded with the following: “I’m sorry I will not communicate with that woman, she is on her sons side, she does everything her son says, her son is very manipulative, I will not contact that woman”. She also went on to add “your mother has been to psych wards and she is not stable”. The psych ward statement was in reference to her mother-in-law having been previously diagnosed and treated for PTSD due to a severely traumatizing event that occurred in the 1990’s. The daughter in-law was fully aware that her statements in Bate’s courtroom would cause her mother in-law (previously neutral and always willing to allow her to communicate with the children and or her) to no longer wish to have contact with her whatsoever. Almost immediately after the hearing concluded is when she then began contacting her mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law knew her threats (such as threatening to have her mother-in-law being arrested and thrown in jail for not answering her) would cause the woman to have severe mental distress.
“I don’t understand why ma’am but they have decided not to prosecute HER, I DO APOLOGIZE” – Officer Lifer
To report suspected elder abuse in Ohio, call the statewide, toll-free help line at 1-855-644-6277, contact your county Department of Job and Family Services, or use the Ohio Adult Protective Services Online Referral tool.
Officer Lifer promptly submitted his report to the Law Director’s Office, which is solely responsible for levying criminal charges at the Ashland County Municipal Courthouse – and yet no charges were ever filed. After learning of this development Officer Lifer then spoke with the victim one last time and expressed confusion and dismay as to why charges had not gone through stating “I don’t understand it. I don’t understand why ma’am but they have decided not to prosecute her, I do apologize”. The reason why is overwhelmingly obvious… The Ashland Law Director’s Office and or Assistant Law Director David Hunter, has engaged in documented malicious misconduct, including obstruction of justice and a clear conflict of interest with the abuser.
READERS NOTE: The senior citizen in this case would have to be removed from her home (at the time she resided with her son and her grandchildren) in July of 2025 after suffering from extreme depression & anxiety caused by the unrelenting stress, threats and constant chaos caused by her daughter in-law. Elements of abuse continue to this very day…
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
This timeline of events carefully streamlines the aforementioned as well as additional actions that transpired since and leading up to the publication of this article. All statements are true and can be proven as such of law. This entire segment’s media (screenshots and recordings) have been REDACTED in their entirety and are wholly reserved as evidence for any potential civil and or criminal proceedings.
- 4/22/2025 – Mother-in-law watches as her daughter-in-law threatens to kill her son, throwing objects & products, slamming doors, screaming and going irate, all before she is scheduled to start her day shift at Miller’s Grocery in town.
- Remains neutral, wanting to keep the peace.
- 4/24/2025 – Mother-in-law answers phone calls made to her phone from her daughter-in-law because her son is refusing to answer after terminating a visit at the psychiatric facility.
- 4/25/2025 – Mother-in-law answers more phone calls placed to her from her daughter-in-law because her son is refusing to answer still.
- April & May 2025 – Answers the phone whenever her daughter-in-law calls from the facility to talk to her as well as allowing her to speak to her children.
- May & June 2025 – Daughter-in-law stops calling entirely to talk to the children or anyone in the household.
- June 25, 2025 – Civil protection order hearing where the daughter-in-law makes negative remarks in court regarding her mother-in-law.
- The woman no longer wishes to speak with her daughter-in-law now as she has grown tired of the distance she’s seen witnessed between the mother and her children as well as her behavior of the past and specifically the words she says in court on this day.
- End of June, 2025 – Several phone calls are made to the mother-in-law’s phone by the abuser. They speak briefly and mother-in-law informs her she is very hurt and upset by what she had to say to her in court. The conversation rapidly deteriorates into daughter-in-law calling her a “stupid bitch”.
- July 1, 2025 – Victim heads to the police department to make a formal complaint in regards to the text messages and phone calls that have now reached a harassing level – many occurring while she is at work and she couldn’t answer even if she wanted to.
- Text messages state “You’re going to go to jail if you don’t answer” & “you are all just making this easier and easier for me”
- July (?), 2025 – Officer Lifer calls to speak with the abusers husband and asks him about the situation. He is duly informed and understands what is transpiring and why.
- July 6, 2025 – Victim contacts Officer Lifer with additional examples of harassment as well as providing him with the court video.
- Officer Lifer informs the woman that the abuser is trying to say that it is all her and her sons fault, but is able to see through the manipulation and has a willingness to follow the law.
- July 6-18 – Victim continues to call and harass the woman throughout the day and night – sporadic hours and with ranging reasons.
- She begins exhibiting extreme stress and anxiety through all of the prolonged abuse that she was also subjected to during the course of time and now being compounded with the newest round of attacks being directed towards her.
- July 19 – Victim calls her mother-in-law’s phone while actively prostituting (with Daniel J. Swartz) in Vegas on her sons birthday.
- Son asks her to leave the home due to her behavior caused from the stress until the situation between he and his wife becomes a manageable for everyone’s mental well being.
- August, 2025 – Little to no contact.
- September, 2025 – Mother-in-law resumes limited conversations and again tries to be the intermediary with her daughter-in-law and son in regards to the couples children.
- Daughter-in-law asks if she can pick up her daughter from school on Thursday (first time she will be seeing them since April 23, 2025). Mother-in-law confirms with her son, who agrees, but instead extends the opportunity for his wife to take all of this kids and not just their daughter.
- Daughter-in-law takes children and immediately severs all communication.
- Mother-in-law continues to reach out.
- Daughter-in-law conceals her private address and then unenrolls her grandchildren from their school.
- Four days pass before her son is able to locate the children and re-enroll them into Ashland city schools.
- Daughter-in-law responds stating “The first chance I got I was going to take them away from that man, who is he or anyone to tell me what to do with my children, there are just as much mine as they are his”. She responds to her daughter-in-law stating to the effect that ‘They are both of yours, but he didn’t move and hide his address, or pull the children from their school and into a different school system that you knew nothing about or cut off communication, it was you who did all those things’.
- More derogatory and belittling remarks are contained in many text messages within these conversations.
- End of September, 2025 – Another visit is asked for and agreed to for a few days period. The children come and go as they should.
- Beginning of October, 2025 – Mother-in-law reaches out to her daughter-in-law several times asking her if she can pick up the children, she says she can’t due to work and makes up a variety excuses, in one instance stating that she will need to rearrange her work schedule in order to be able to see the children.
- Middle of October, 2025 – Mother-in-law reaches out to her daughter-in-law again and asks her if she can pick up the children on the newly mentioned days that she said she could rearrange her schedule with at work. This conversation is completely deranged, summarized: ‘I know he has a girlfriend on this street, I know he’s obsessed with me, if I catch Selena on my yard one more time I’m calling the cops, no I can’t pick up the kids on that day you never responded to me, I have to work, use your brain, you don’t have a brain, your fried, what’s wrong with you, don’t you understand I have to work, I’m done talking to you’. Mother-in-law response summary: ‘Your children are more important than your work, it is not my responsibility to constantly reach out to you to see your children’. Daughter-in-law responds with more fiery and detached and condescending responses.
- October 29, 2025 – Mother-in-law arranges the transport of the children for trick-or-treating in Mansfield on the 30th at daughter-in-law’s request, to be returned on 31st for her son to take them traditional trick or treating in North Ridgeville. All goes as planned.
- Throughout the course of the past several months pictures and information were consistently sent to the daughter-in-law.
- Phone calls were also made to the daughter-in-law while she would have the kids, however, there was never an answer to any of the calls.
- November 7, 2025 – As arranged between the two, mother-in-law will be facilitating the exchange of the children for the weekend to her daughter-in-law at the bus stop. Exchange goes as planned, or so it seemed…
- Mother-in-law returns home only a short time later to have four Ashland Police officers arrive at her door with her daughter-in-law demanding entry and stating they have a lawful reason to be at her home. Paperwork would later indicate that the Ashland Police were only authorized in the retrieval of the children but had instead allowed themselves to be utilized in a gestapo fashion to steal the children’s clothing and intimidate the mother-in-law. The children themselves had already been in the custody of the mother as per the arranged transfer of the children for what was supposed to be the weekend. The Ashland Police did not have to be utilized in any way, shape or form in regards to the custody of the children.
- Mother-in-law discovers that her daughter-in-law levied false allegations in a divorce proceeding just the day prior. Stating she didn’t know of the children’s whereabouts, didn’t know of their well-being and that she saw bruising on the children in 2023-2024 as well as a host of other blatant and provable lies.
- Mother-in-law retained and reached out months on end to try to establish and arrange for visits with her daughter-in-law, in many cases to no avail, while being verbally attacked along the way in every single way imaginable. Yet her daughter-in-law clearly lied and said she did not know of their whereabouts and or well-being. In fact, her daughter-in-law had been to her home in numerous instances in the past month alone.
- November 8, 2025 – Daughter-in-law texts “so what has he said”
- November 9, 2025 – Daughter-in-law texts “?”
- November, December & January – Throughout the remainder of November all the way through January many messages are sent to the mother-in-law with her ignoring the vast majority of them. Many visits to her place of work are made with loud context regarding what many would consider to be “personal” business at the behalf of her daughter-in-law – in front of customers, making her highly uncomfortable (one as recently as in the past week and a half, midpoint of January 26′). Daughter-in-law gets into an argument with her other son who resides in Florida, now causing problems with both of her children.
- Mother-in-law (as well as her son) are now both totally in a state of fear over false allegations and or scenarios that could arise due to any potential visit with her grandchildren or anything else outside the realm of reality.
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THE BOTTOM LINE
SCUMBAGGED Tip: Another situation where the Ashland Law Director’s office fails to prosecute someone when they are in clear violation of numerous laws – as well as that of an active civil protection order being at play. This is the same jurisdiction that also failed to prosecute when death threats were made and clear abuse was shown towards that of the husband and his children – all of which was backed up by Dropbox files, videos and a plethora of information – some of which even providing the courts with additional insight into the undertones and history of the individuals in question. Alas, there needs to be law & order in this county, not the complete and total opposite – which is what is clearly being depicted here once again. Ashland either wants to be like Minnesota (a degradation of the laws, justice and perversion of the truth based on total insanity and obvious “bias”) or they don’t, they simply can’t have it both ways. To NOT protect the sweet old lady, the senior citizen with zero criminal convictions that works part-time at your local grocery store is demented and evil. Picture it being your mother next time, maybe that’ll do the trick to ensure that constitutional rights are upheld and productive law abiding citizens are protected.
AËTOS SAYS: In regards to the video the abuser made in court: Her statements towards her mother-in-law, specifically in having once been to a psych ward – are downright shameful considering that she herself was just recently released from a psych ward at that time. If you’re not able to see the intentional chaos caused and all the deceptive moves made (by the courts and everyone involved by now), then that’s entirely on you and you’re either a very sick, special, complicit and or corrupt scumbag…
