I’m a single mom and I work as a freelancer. One of my clients couldn’t take no for an answer. When I told him I was uncomfortable and refused his advances, he stopped paying me what I was owed for our marketing contract. I decided to speak about a publicly.

Since then, he has been harassing me nonstop. He’s texted me pretending to be potential clients. He left my business a bad review full of lies. He spent thousands of dollars on smear campaigns and ads pushing a false narrative about me, which forced me to shut down my business. During that time to now I have received threats, spam under my business website, text harassing me from “potential clients” . He began doxxing me, posting my address and locations of where I was, to make me feel unsafe leaving my home or taking new jobs. And most recently, he got my last GoFundMe taken down.

I’ve spoken with attorneys. Because I was a freelancer and not an employee, no one will take this case on contingency. These cases are expensive and hard to fight. The lowest retainer I’ve been quoted just to start is $7000. Without an attorney, I can’t stop the harassment or recover what I’m owed. I’ve gone to the police many times, but because he hides behind fake accounts and denies it’s him, they can’t do anything.

That’s why I’m starting this new GoFundMe. I have nowhere else to turn. I don’t feel safe to work, but I am trying to still find a job because I have a daughter and I can’t risk not being able to provide for her. I don’t feel safe. But because I have a daughter, giving up isn’t an option. I want to fight this legally the right way so he can’t keep doing this to anyone else. I want to raise enough to hire a lawyer and to track down these accounts so that, he can be criminally charged.

Donations will go toward hiring a lawyer, and toward basic survival while I keep my daughter safe: rent, bills, groceries, gas, and the security we need to get through this.

If you can donate, thank you from the bottom of my heart. If you can’t, sharing this helps more than you know. Thank you for not letting me go through this alone.