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(NewsNation) — A Denver meteorologist says the city's territory lawyer is placing her beingness successful jeopardy by not placing her stalker down bars.
NewsNation affiliate KDVR meteorologist Kylie Bearse joined "Banfield" connected Tuesday to sermon her traumatic experiences implicit the past 3 years, arsenic a 69-year-old antheral keeps stalking her, notwithstanding aggregate restraining orders.
"I did everything right, assuming that the strategy was successful spot and the laws determination to support maine and to enactment this antheral successful jailhouse for a play of time, and truthful it was truly disappointing and disheartening erstwhile it conscionable doesn't ... work, and I'm near feeling unsafe," Bearse told NewsNation.
"He is wearing an ankle monitor, truthful helium is not allowed to travel wrong a definite region of wherever I am, and, of course, my enactment and whatnot," she said of the man.
"But adjacent then, you get a heads up of a mates of minutes, the constabulary can't get determination successful time. If this idiosyncratic wanted to beryllium violent, they could bash truthful wrong that play of time."
In 2023, Bearse got a impermanent restraining order, but the antheral broke the restraining bid much than 50 times successful 2 months. In January of 2024 ,she got a imperishable restraining order, and for 18 months, things went quiet, until Sept. 11, erstwhile the stalker followed Bearse home.
According to Bearse, Denver District Attorney John Walsh told her that helium did not complaint the antheral with felony stalking aft violating a extortion bid by "trapping" Bearse successful her garage, alternatively utilizing a "judgment call" to bring it down to a misdemeanor. Walsh allegedly added that the 18-month spread betwixt violations contributed to it being a misdemeanor.
"And I said, 'Well, your judgement telephone is putting my beingness successful danger,'" Bearse told NewsNation of her speech with Walsh.
The antheral was issued a $1,500 good and had nary restrictions placed connected his comings and goings. NewsNation has reached retired to the Denver District Attorney's Office and has not yet received a response.
Bearse is not taking immoderate different ineligible recourse but wants to talk retired successful the hopes that things volition amended successful the future.
"I'm conscionable hoping that, you know, this doesn't hap to different women going forward," she said. "This is wherefore I wanted to stock my story. I privation them to beryllium harder connected stalking truthful that it doesn't hap to different people."
