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Harassment Case Turns Into Legal Warning | Auckland News
Sixty-two-year-old Mary Jelena ONeill is back in court after hiring someone to trim trees on her neighbor’s property — a move the judge called a “cynical act of harassment” tied to a long history of targeted abuse. With prior violations including four breaches of a protection order and a 2015 threatening behavior charge, this case underscores how repeated harassment can’t be ignored. Instead of jail, she’s sentenced to two years of intensive supervision, probation, and a strict stay-away order from her old home and neighbor’s property in Napier. The judge made it clear: any future misstep…
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