Yes, absolutely. Something similar happened with some acquaintences of mine. The husband of a female friend, who it turns out had been abusing her for years, went on FB and threatened another female friend of ours who was trying to help her get out of the abusive relationship. He threatened her, her newborn baby and her husband in great detail on FB. He even created a fake FB account just for the purpose of threatening our friend. My friend (the one that was trying to help our abused friend get away from her husband) contacted FB and gave them screen shots and time stamps of the offending FB pages and threats. FB took down his accounts. The offender lived in a different town, so she contacted the police in the offender’s town and her own town. The police in her town opened a report on this guy and she had to go down to the police station and give them all of the information about this man and how and where he threatened her. Then the police in the man’s town, opened a report (with the help of the police in my friend’s town, so that everyone is on the same page) and they actually went over to the man’s house and spoke with him and told him that if he didn’t stop threatening my friend, that he would be taken to jail. The “reports” are ongoing, so if the man does anything else, he will immediately be charged with a crime.
The unfortunate part of this situation, is that our friend who was/is being abused, decided to stay with him and hasn’t spoken to any of her former friends since this all started. She was angry that our other friend got the police involved even though her own life is in danger and her own husband threatened her former friend’s family mulitiple times. It’s really sick : (
Just make sure that you have all of the correct information at hand when you file your reports with FB and the police, including any part that you may have had in this mess too. You said that at first, you were talking back to the offender, so let the police know that, and make sure that you have screen shots and/or time stamps, and let them know the home address of the offender. You may want/need to get a restraining order too. If you live in a different town than the offender, you will need to contact the police in both your town and her town. Good luck with this and be safe.