“I’ve been terrified for the last four years.”
A woman has had over 50 men visit her house in the last four years after her pictures and address were posted to pro-rape and bondage websites.
Speaking to A Current Affair, 37-year-old Robyn Night explained that ex-boyfriend Ryan Kotynski has been charged with stalking after he allegedly posted the photos to 30-40 different websites.
A Current Affair explained that some of the photos were just her head attached to pictures of other women’s bodies, and she was described on the sites as a “no limits slave pig deserving extreme punishment.”
You can watch a snippet of Robin’s interview with A Current Affair here (post continues after video):
Night said that due to initial inaction by police, she’s been “terrified for the last four years.”
She explained that before Kotynski was charged, she went to four different police stations, with one policeman telling her unless she was physically touched or raped, “there was nothing that they could do” for her.
Because of this, she took to putting signs up, warning people to stay away, chaining her gate and keeping a baseball bat at the door.
This note reads:
“YES THIS IS A REAL CAMERA.
Your picture and video has already been recorded and sent off site to at least 2 people.
It is still recording.
It can see you even in the dark.
We have several cameras that have already recorded you.
We have a stalker that is making profiles on sex websites and giving people our address. You have been tricked. If you know their phone number or anything that could help us find them please leave a note in our post box.”
This note reads:
“If you are from an adult website I am not the person you have been talking too (sic). If you knock I will call the Police.”
Night’s Husband, River, was equally as concerned over the harassment, particularly for the safety of their child.
He told A Current Affair, “This person’s sending people from pro-rape and bondage websites to my house to rape and assault myself or my wife or my three-year-old.”
Robin described the incident as similar to rape, saying, “Through cyber he raped me”.
Although Kotynski has been charged now, Night explained that he has already “changed (her) life” and put her family through “absolute hell”.
Top Comments
I had someone, I suspect a disgruntled tradesman put my mobile phone number on two websites (one was Craiglist) stating I wanted to have kinky sex. I received numerous phone calls and explicit texts from men wanting to have sex for months. I contacted the police who took a statement but weren't very helpful. I was unable to get the advertisements removed as I hadn't put them on the websites. I can't imagine what Robyn has been through.
Two weeks after complaining to the Queensland Police Commissioner, detectives were dispatched and an arrest was made. Within two weeks. Yet, four years of constant harassment and complaints to the police nothing could be done, allegedly. Unless the attitude of the people entrusted with the safety of its citizens changes, nothing will change.