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My relationship with my parents broke down 3 years ago after I disclosed abuse I suffered in childhood. I held my parents partly responsible as they had very active sex lives that they exposed me to and did not safeguard me from dangerous people around me. My parents told extended family I had had a mental breakdown to cover for why we no longer spoke. They* continued to send letters and cards to my children, and would periodically harass me with emails. I asked them several times to stop contacting me and told them I would only be prepared to discuss things in professional mediation as their constant informal contact was distressing me. Eventually after a few years of their ongoing contact my husband and I sent a cease and desist letter via our solicitor reinforcing that we feel harassed and distressed and requesting that the repeated contact ceases.
In response they sent a letter from their solicitor refuting our 'claims of harassment' and requesting that they have our children (who haven't seen them for 3 years) for unsupervised sleepovers at their house 150 miles away. We ignored the letter and have now received another, almost identical letter from their solicitor. These two further incidences of contact have caused deep distress to our family, particularly me. There is not legal basis to the solicitor's letters they are sending, they are just requests for access. Do these letters count as further acts of harassment? I've had enough now and just want to report them to police but I don't know if the fact that the letters are coming from solicitors somehow stops this being harassment in law? Any ideas?
In response they sent a letter from their solicitor refuting our 'claims of harassment' and requesting that they have our children (who haven't seen them for 3 years) for unsupervised sleepovers at their house 150 miles away. We ignored the letter and have now received another, almost identical letter from their solicitor. These two further incidences of contact have caused deep distress to our family, particularly me. There is not legal basis to the solicitor's letters they are sending, they are just requests for access. Do these letters count as further acts of harassment? I've had enough now and just want to report them to police but I don't know if the fact that the letters are coming from solicitors somehow stops this being harassment in law? Any ideas?
