Written Pornographic Stories and the law in England.

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Is anyone on here legally trained and can advise? Or can anyone point me in the direction of where I can find help?
My childrens dad has not been involved in their life since early - his choice - he has caused us trouble on multiple occassions in the past.
February this year I was told by a friend that my ex had written and posted a written pornographic story about me and published it online on a site called Lush Stories (which I think is USA based). I looked up his user name on google and it was high up in the search list... like 5th from the top. Written in 2017 and left online, his account showed he uses the site every other day or so.
It was loosely based on an instance where I took our children to see him at his house. We stayed overnight, me in the spare room, the kids in the room next door. We had a few drinks while watching a film and I fell asleep. The story portrays this... however that is where fact turns to fiction.
He states in it my name, a full graphic description, uses both kids as context. He states he molested/groped me "accidentally" twice while I slept. The rest is more disgusting. It made me sick.
While it doesnt state my surname, he has only had 1 girlfriend.. me... and he posted his name and photo along with location. So easy to find a friend saw it... as did 10k other perverts.
He also wrote 2 further stories about someone he claimed was "his boss". This is a woman he told me he was dating and very serious about in later 2017. I asked my friend who found it to reach out to her. Turns out they never dated, he basically stalked her. She also as far as Im aware filed a police report.
Police report, I asked if it breached the harassment/malicious communications act or revenge !!!!!! laws as it became obvious all 3 stories were written out of revenge for being turned down. Police response was that while bad, it did not breach those laws.
I have since been trying to find out if it breaches anything else. Like the Obscene Publications Act for example.. but unless you pay, solicitors are no help and I dont have the cash to throw at this.
Does anyone know how I can get this actioned or looked into further?
My childrens dad has not been involved in their life since early - his choice - he has caused us trouble on multiple occassions in the past.
February this year I was told by a friend that my ex had written and posted a written pornographic story about me and published it online on a site called Lush Stories (which I think is USA based). I looked up his user name on google and it was high up in the search list... like 5th from the top. Written in 2017 and left online, his account showed he uses the site every other day or so.
It was loosely based on an instance where I took our children to see him at his house. We stayed overnight, me in the spare room, the kids in the room next door. We had a few drinks while watching a film and I fell asleep. The story portrays this... however that is where fact turns to fiction.
He states in it my name, a full graphic description, uses both kids as context. He states he molested/groped me "accidentally" twice while I slept. The rest is more disgusting. It made me sick.
While it doesnt state my surname, he has only had 1 girlfriend.. me... and he posted his name and photo along with location. So easy to find a friend saw it... as did 10k other perverts.
He also wrote 2 further stories about someone he claimed was "his boss". This is a woman he told me he was dating and very serious about in later 2017. I asked my friend who found it to reach out to her. Turns out they never dated, he basically stalked her. She also as far as Im aware filed a police report.
Police report, I asked if it breached the harassment/malicious communications act or revenge !!!!!! laws as it became obvious all 3 stories were written out of revenge for being turned down. Police response was that while bad, it did not breach those laws.
I have since been trying to find out if it breaches anything else. Like the Obscene Publications Act for example.. but unless you pay, solicitors are no help and I dont have the cash to throw at this.
Does anyone know how I can get this actioned or looked into further?
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It is a horrible thing to have happened, but putting it in context, very few people (apart from your friend and your ex) on the site are likely to have a clue who you are, or to care, given that you say it is a fiction site. It’s not something people are going to accidentally stumble across and think, oh that must be Peonyy. Or that it’s real instead of made up.
Hope this helps.
It could potentially be dealt with under the Obscene Publications Act.
If you have a UK (possibly EU, I'm not 100% sure of how this will work in practice now but can look it up) address for the publisher (the website), it may be worth sending a Letter Before Action.
If a US address only, a Cease and Desist letter.may be sufficient if you genuinely can be identified without your consent. I'm assuming it'll be taken seriously, as lawsuits under these circumstances can get very expensive very quickly so they'll likely not want to risk it.
You don't need a qualified professional to at least deal with the basic stuff, so it's worth resting on the site not wanting to risk this.
I can spell, my iPad can't.
i don't know for sure so obviously still try, but the fact the story has now gone is probably enough, although you have to factor in these 'wayback' sites.
Happy moneysaving all.
I'm not really sure you will achieve anything else to be honest.
You may want to get some advice from someone who is it/media savvy about whether the story may be stored / archived elsewhere and if so whether and how it can be removed - the 'right to be forgotten' may help.
You could also speak to the police again to ask if they can log it as an incidence of harassment - it would not lead to them taking any action now, but as harassment is defined as being 'a course of conduct' , having it logged (with a crime ref. no) might make it easier for them to take action of there are any further incidents of a similar nature.
I think that the fact it was fiction (albeit featuring someone with your name) rather than a photo or video would mean it falls outside the laws around so-called 'revenge !!!!!!' but I am not sure.
The only other line you may want to look at is whether the police would record an incident of sexual assault if he admitted in it that he assaulted you while you were asleep.
I don't think they would be able to take it much further absent any further evidence but it my be worth asking and again, may be helpful if there are any further, similar incidents either involving you or another person.