Last Sunday morning, June 1st at approximately 10AM, my roommate took the dog out with him for morning coffee walk before I got up myself. Leaving the apartment minutes later on my own quest for a latte, I had a couple of regular faces around the neighborhood ask where my dog was. I replied that I was having a one of those idyllic days for parents where the kid is off under someone else’s care and you don’t have to worry about it. Morning coffee in hand, I returned home to have my roommate inform me that he needed to tell me something.
Apparently, they had gone to a different local coffee shop, Good Omen Coffee Co., and had spent a few moments seated at a table outside, making conversation with a couple of other patrons with their own dog while the pets socialized together. During this, my roommate saw my harasser, off at a distance and putting his biological baby child into a carrier inside of a car; Good Omen is the designated neutral location used for child exchanges for his unsupervised visitations. Thinking nothing of it, my roommate was suddenly distracted by another passing dog whose presence triggered and unpleasant response among all the dogs present, requiring him to frantically scramble to detain my dog without any advance indication. As the other dog finished passing without incident, he looked up to find the harasser with his phone out recording him and my dog. Upon noticing this, my roommate started drawing the attention of the couple he had been talking to and anyone in their vicinity toward Leonardo, the crazy man standing off at a distance recording them for no reason, getting them to verbally acknowledge that it was strange and weird behavior.
This is all highly reminiscent of last summer, when on July 15, 2024, the harasser took advantage of crossing paths with my roommate while he was walking the dog—having had multiple instances of passing by me without my slightest acknowledgement—to bait him into an interaction he then sensationalized and used as a basis to file a request for restraining orders against both him and myself, alleging stalking, harassing, threats of violence, and fear for his safety and, even more heinously, that of his biological child.
All done as a pre-emptive ploy to undercut the validity of the testimony he knew I was going to provide in his family court custody case, of his homophobic hate speech and attempt at forced entry into my residence with the intent of physical violence on the day the baby was born, delivered via at-home birth by my downstairs neighbor.
Given that I current have an active case in the Court of Appeals against him, I can’t help but suspect he might be trying to scheme up some ploy to try to improve his chances in the appeal (it won’t) and/or initiate some new frivolous action. I will not be surprised in the slightest if some time this week he files a new completely bogus case against one or both of us.
To quote the great classical philosopher Gwen Stefani:
“Few times been around that track so it’s not just gonna happen like that”.
I’d elaborate further, but much as I want to, it’s not yet the time nor place.