What kind of a person intentionally targets and preys upon, then would purposefully try to intimidate and humiliate the elderly --- for sport?
Our Personal Experience - Written by Joanne Kidd

Simply thinking that if someone has no Internet access, ability, or online existence, that it excludes him or her from being the target and victim of an Internet predator and/or bully, can now-a-days be naïve thinking, as my family recently discovered.

My mother, at age 84, indisputably having no internet connection, access, experience, or even a computer, was named in a Federal lawsuit by pro se plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen aka author "Mabel White" in January of 2009 as a “Jane Doe Cyberstalker” and accused of a variety of direct internet-related offenses and activities.  Why?  I can not think of any other reason under the circumstances and situation that has unfolded but apparent pure covetous greed, as well as grandiose and persecutory delusions and a lack of conscience and/or character on the part of the pro se plaintiff, Deborah R. Dolen aka author "Mabel White." Although we had never even heard of this woman prior to her contrived and fantasy-filled pro se lawsuit against us, Dolen also targeted my husband and me and named us as “Jane Doe Cyberstalkers” as well. Her insane claims and allegations against all three of us ranged from copyright infringement (without proof of or occurrence of any), to trade libel (even though we had no online business or other means in order to do so), to “Trademark Infringement - Lanham Act” (although no actual trademark exists), to conspiracy (without proof or instance). The ridiculous claimed counts also included "Impersonating Law Enforcement" and "Internet Fraud." All-in-all, there were 10 bogus and crazy "counts" and this pro se plaintiff-out-of-nowhere was demanding $100,000 from us per count.

How did we become targets and how did she even know of our existence in this world?  Because, according to plaintiff Deborah Dolen, she had befriended my husband’s troublesome ex-wife, Angela Schubart Ledcke, a woman who has attempted for the past several years to cause problems for us with her numerous childish stunts. After Angela Ledcke admittedly supplied plaintiff Deborah Dolen aka author "Mabel White" with our names and personal information and also admittedly encouraged the lawsuit against us for the purpose of "getting" us, Dolen discovered through public records when (as she stated) she was “investigating” our assets, that I had sold my house to my mother in 2004. (Although that transaction is none of this plaintiff's business and was for estate planning purposes that are obviously beyond her comprehension, Dolen has ignorantly continued to assert a completely delusional claim that it was for reasons of "fraud.")  It was at that point, and solely because of that asset and the coverage for personal liability through the homeowner's policy that this pro se plaintiff was expecting "payment" from, that my elderly mother became another target for bullying and extortion in Dolen’s pro se lawsuit lottery scam.  (Through the initial litigation Dolen discovered the ridiculousness of her actual cited claims against my mother and found that what she thought would be easy prey, would not be so easy after all. At that point she changed her story to accommodate a new delusional theory and excuse as to why she targeted my elderly mother.)

With a paralegal class certificate plaintiff Deborah Dolen aka author "Mabel White" obtained while serving time in prison in connection with a charity scam ( racketeering conviction), she was able to compile and file her vexatious lawsuit as "pro se" in Federal court. She demanded a jury trial and was seemingly confident that she would be able to sway and convince a jury into believing her irrational and delusional theories. There is apparently nothing in place in our court system to initially screen that process and ensure the credibility of filed lawsuits other than the assumption that the lawsuit filer will act with some sort of reasonable sanity. Obviously, in this case, we feel that element was completely lacking, and the pro se filer with nothing to lose was willing to play a game of lawsuit lottery.

It must have been quite a cheap thrill for Dolen to have had an unaware 84-year-old woman, who hadn't even had but one traffic ticket in her entire life, frightened by being served Dolen's frivolous lawsuit against her by a "Federal process server," as Deborah Dolen was quick to publicly boast about this feat in a vile comment directed at my mother that was posted that very day on an internet forum by "process server." 

Did plaintiff Deborah Dolen / "Mabel White" do her due diligence of finding out if any of the fictional gossip from the conspiring ex, Ledcke, was true before filing her complaint against an 84-year-old woman?  No!  Did Deborah Dolen / Mabel White have the first shred of evidence before preying on an 84-year-old woman and threatening to put her in jail and take everything from her?  No!  Did Deborah Dolen / Mabel White provide anything to substantiate her claims against Mary Harvey?  No!  She had nothing because there IS nothing that could ever link any of us to what Deborah Dolen / Mabel White has claimed and filed in her "Federal Lawsuit." The only purpose it served was to disparage, libel, and harass us and give Deborah Dolen some sort of thrill and/or street cred with her monkey-mouth cell gangster threats against an 84 year-old woman who did not even know Deborah Dolen existed prior to being called and threatened by her at 5:40 p.m. on January 13, 2009!

What Deborah Dolen aka author Mabel White did was plain and simple.  Purely driven by cheap fabricated gossip and greed, Dolen targeted an 84 year-old woman she knew nothing about and one who had done nothing to her, and she called, verbally abused and threatened my mother, then acting as a pro se plaintiff (because no decent attorney would ever touch this with a 10-foot pole), she filed all of our names as defendants in a completely baseless and full-of-hooey lawsuit in Federal Court. This Deborah Dolen / "Mabel White" woman has since publicly attempted to intimidate an 84-year-old woman into thinking that she would be arrested, publicly attempted to intimidate her into thinking that she would be going to jail, publicly attempted to humiliate and intimidate her into believing that she would be “evicted” from her own home and lose everything she had, posted her name and made vile and sexually explicit comments about her on a public forum (Topix), publicly disparaged her, and although Dolen knows nothing about her, has personally published online that my mother is a “demon,” a “terrorist,” and a “bitter old woman.”  In a newsletter on her Mabel White Home Living website Deborah Dolen wrote that God spoke to her and told her (in reference to my mother and my family) to “take them down.”  She has also published my mother’s address online to ensure that her safety would be compromised. 

Because of her noticeable persecutory delusions, Deborah Dolen / Mabel White has insisted that an 84-year-old woman, who did not know of her existence and who does not have a computer, a cell phone, or any means or know-how to access the internet, “cyberstalked,” harassed,  conspired against her, and was a "cyberbully." No one in my family had ever even heard of Deborah Dolen or her alias of Mabel White prior to Dolen’s calculated pursuit of us, and the ONLY way Dolen would’ve even known of our existence in this world was through her mentioned friend, my husband’s problematic and apparently *revengeful ex, Angela Ledcke. (*In a civil case involving Ledcke and my husband in 2006, Ledcke had been jailed for refusing to comply with orders from the Court to obtain a psychological evaluation and counseling for herself and their daughter, and to attend parenting classes. Ledcke eventually lost custody of the 17-year-old daughter to my husband, although he was not seeking custody, and the Court denied her any visitation.)

Dolen continued to libel and disparage my family in her bullying and cyber bullying attempts and continued harassment, and although the Court had not heard this case at the time, Deborah Dolen published a FAKE Court Order online that she created herself.  That's right, a do it yourself, homemade, unsigned, fake court order claiming that the court had found us "guilty" of her claims against us!  I suppose Deborah Dolen figured she was her very own DIY court system.

This sort of scam is something that could happen to anyone, as we have personally experienced. Someone who they don’t even know or aren’t even aware of can actually target them, "research" their assets, and decide, 'Hey, I want that!' or 'No fair!  I deserve what they have worked a lifetime for.' In our case, my husband’s ex (from 20 years ago) provided a willing pro se participant with our names and my mother’s name and encouraged a plot to make us the target. 

As an 84-year-old elder who devoted over sixty years in a loving marriage and has worked hard and spent her life building and maintaining an absolutely spotless reputation and standing, my mother has only been loving, respectful, considerate and caring toward others her entire life.  She has never done anything to antagonize or discredit anyone for any reason, and is not now and never has been any part of Deborah Dolen or Angela Ledcke's problems online or off.  My mother has earned, deserves, and has the right to spend her last years with dignity, and NOT in fear because of being threatened, sued, and generally abused by Deborah Dolen aka author Mabel White, a woman who knows absolutely nothing about my mother, yet has campaigned to unjustly disparage her good name and character in any way possible, simply for greed and for mean-spirited sport!  How is this not unconscionable and deliberate exploitation of the elderly and elder abuse, and how, under the deliberately orchestrated circumstances, could we ever view it any other way?

From the start, pro se plaintiff, Deborah Dolen aka author "Mabel White" continuously made monetary demands of thousands of dollars from us to withdraw her bogus “Federal complaint” (without prejudice) (so that she would be able to re-file her claims and harassment via other courts), making it crystal clear what her insidious and vexatious intentions had been from the start. Considering the arrest record and criminal history of this plaintiff (Deborah Dolen aka Mabel White), which includes everything from prostitution procurement and pandering, to credit card factoring, to solicitation for arson, RICO violations, grand theft, racketeering, money laundering, fraud and forgery, to being sentenced to a seven year prison term because of a felony conviction, I suppose this pro se 'get rich quick' lawsuit scam attempt is no big surprise.  As Deborah Dolen boasted in an email to our attorney, "Do not think I am discouraged at any and all denied motions. You will not win them all-and any one set of reliefs [sic] I am requesting is going to be a major coup."  Sort of says it all.

Throughout Dolen's intentional and deliberate bullying and pursuit of my mother and my family, I have discovered a small amount of her arrest and criminal history by searching in public records in some of Florida's county sites under her names: Deborah Dolen, Deborah Harvey, and Deborah Avramidis. Just three of those county sites are:
Manatee County, in Bradenton, FL (Records under all three names)
Sarasota County (Records under Harvey, Deborah as well as Dolen, Deborah)
Sarasota County Criminal Case Details
Duval County (Jacksonville, FL) (Offender records under Deborah Harvey with results for offender with a February 1963 BD.)

I have also discovered that pro se plaintiff Dolen was no stranger to this sort of endeavor or to claims of conspiracy and fraud against her. From reading her criminal and court history, that seems to be a common theme in her numerous lawsuit attempts over the years.

In addition, below are just a few of the articles I found online about this person/plaintiff since her targeted attack on my family. Although she claims this information is false and "made up" her validated history speaks volumes to us about her lack of character, morality, and obvious motives.

From the FTC's Top Ten Scam List
Expect E-mail Job Offers to Be Nothing But Spam
Deborah Harvey Is Accused Of Running A Fraudulent Charity
Sarasota Woman Convicted In Spina Bifida Charity Case
Charity Founder Gets Five Years
Deborah (Harvey) Dolen Racketeering Conviction Affirmed PDF Version
Ex-call Girl Says Harvey Got One-third
Ex-prostitute Blasts Prosecutors - In this article, I found it particularly interesting that the Assistant State Attorney said Dolen (then Harvey) had been known to make "unsubstantiated allegations" (against authorities) that were "figments of [her] imagination." We saw plenty of this!
Court Shuts Down Companies Selling Work at Home Kits
Other Newspaper Articles

UPDATE:
February 24, 2011 - Federal Court Orders ALL Claims Against Us To Be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE:
Order of dismissal  This Judgment clearly states the action against us (lawsuit) to be "torturous" and bars Dolen from ever making those claims against us again. However, out of apparent pure spite and revenge because we stood up to her bullying, and instead of realizing that she was duped by my husband's ex (Angela Schubart Ledcke) and cheap, unfounded gossip, this woman has since taken her lies, ramblings, and unfounded accusations about us to various non-reliable websites (that no reputable journalist would utilize) such as Open Salon and North Country Gazette. There, she is trying to bully and disparage us by associating our names with the terms "cyberbully" and "cyberstalkers" in self-published "press releases" and articles containing content that is clearly and intentionally false and libelous. Thankfully, the court dismissed our counterclaims against this vexatious plaintiff WITHOUT prejudice, so that we will be able to re-assert them in a separate abuse of process action against her.
 
December 2011:
In her last [completely irrational] motion to the court in late 2011, Deborah Dolen admitted that she never had grounds for suing us and that the purpose of the lawsuit was to try and force us into doing what she wanted. (Paying her off)  She also spouted off a myriad of unsupported and fabricated fantasy delusions - claiming them as "facts." In an "affidavit" of miscellaneous nonsense, Dolen admitted to the court that she was indigent, that she lives gratis in a model home, and that she owns nothing of her own. (A typical "got nothing to lose" pro se plaintiff.) In an email to our attorney shortly after this motion, Deborah Dolen boldly said she would refuse to pay anything on an order against her for our attorney's fees, and threatened future lawsuit games against us.

In the End:
On many levels there is a definite dichotomy between the person Deborah Dolen tries so hard to disguise herself into being and convince others that she is, and the malicious person who attacked (and continues to attack) my mother and my family for no cause other than greed and sport. Even though she has found absolutely nothing and no one that could support the fictional theories that she formed through gossiping with my husband’s conniving ex, and to this day she essentially knows nothing about us – Deborah Dolen continues to emit her unwarranted comments of hatred, and unsupported and impractical theories.

The Federal Court's FINAL Judgment  - The court ruled against Dolen in the lawsuit and on March 23, 2012 awarded a final judgment in this case  AGAINST Deborah Dolen and FOR the Defendants. The court also adopted into this Final Judgment the Federal Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, that addressed the legal validity of sanctions against her and admonished Deborah Dolen for her "vexatious conduct."

In the end, it will be her own life she destroys with her malice, cruelty, and greed - and not ours.
 

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Disclaimer: This is my own personal blog where I have shared my family's personal and direct experience with the individuals named. Any opinions expressed here are also my own and have been based solely as a consequence of the adverse and direct personal experience(s) with these individuals.

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