Chalk this one under the “insane” category.
Kathy Rowe bid on her “dream home” in San Diego’s Carmel Valley area. She said the home was perfect for caring for her disabled daughter and her husband, who was recovering from a heart attack. But, as happens every single day in real estate, she was outbid. So she got petty.
The couple, who bought the house for $779,000, was… bombarded by unwanted magazines, books and junk mail addressed to “Jacques Arse,” which Rowe is accused of arranging.
Rowe also allegedly sent romantic Valentine’s Day cards from the husband to his female neighbors.
Stupid and harassing, yes. But then she got criminally crazy and ugly.
Rowe is accused of signing the wife up for sex ads online, including one she titled “Carmel Valley Freak Show,” encouraging visitors to drop by unannounced while her husband is at work, according to court documents. She allegedly told men who responded to the listings to push their way inside the home, and gave men the couple’s new address.
One man responded to the ad and showed up at the couple’s doorstep, according to court documents.
Rowe has now been formally arraigned on “felony charges of solicitation of rape and sodomy and misdemeanor charges for identity theft and repeated harassment by electronic communication.” She was arrested in October 2012, but the charges were initially dismissed. An appellate court reinstated them, and Rowe is pleading not guilty.
How messed up do you have to be when you soliciting a rapist because you are mad at someone? And all this poor couple did was BUY A HOME. They didn’t know Kathy Rowe. And let’s be crystal clear – neither party had owned this house previously. Kathy Rowe was not foreclosed on – she was simply outbid. But because she didn’t get what she wanted, she decided to be mean and spiteful – and eventually, if the charges are proved in court, criminally dangerous. However, she considers herself a victim.
“Losing that house was devastating to my family and broke our hearts,” Rowe wrote in a statement provided to prosecutors.
Rowe has said she never knew she was scaring the couple, according to police, and called her actions “stupid pranks.”
I’d hate to see what she considers an actual felony.
Jezebel picked up the story and roundly condemned her for her alleged actions. A few commenters, however, seemed to have some alternative views.
“If this is her first offense, she still might get some kind of probation. I’m not saying she really deserves it, but they might take the family hardship into account.”
Too bad she didn’t think about her disabled daughter and ailing husband when she placed ads soliciting home invasion and rape.
“I absolutely don’t condone what this woman did, but I do wonder, she must’ve been stressed beyond belief. Women are often left to undertake caretaking duties, and I think this is an extreme case where she simply couldn’t take it anymore. If the American healthcare system was better and provided home care at an affordable price, she might not have been driven to this extreme.”
The house in question was eventually sold for $779,000, so that “affordable health care” argument is kind of moot, huh?
And let’s not even get started about these idiotic “rape fantasies” comments on that thread. It will reduce your IQ if you actually read them.
This is the crazy world we live in now, where everyone deserves what they want and should be excused for going off the deep end because they didn’t get what they wanted because it “broke their hearts.”
She’s looking at up to nine years in prison if convicted. I can’t say that I feel one bit sympathetic or sorry about that.
wfjag says: Alfred Hitchcock used to make movies about people like this. Of course, in Hitchcock’s movies, such characters eventually got dropped out of a window or something similar. Now, they are feted by the entire victimhood-is-good establishment.
William says: Hitchcock and many others used crazy people like this, and worse, in their movies. They did usually come to a bad end and the audience was glad to see it. These days you’re right about the victim mentality, probably largely brought about by the pop psychobabble that permeates society. It’s not their fault, they were just a little stressed, even though they had enough money to buy a nearly $800K house. What people in the past knew was that people like this were doing wrong if they weren’t outright evil. Can’t say that these days though.
Appalled By The World says: What a whiny idiot. I like how she thought there was basically no harm done-had she been subjected to this kind of crap she probably would have been rendered a basket case.
GWB says: The couple, who bought the house for $779,000
There’s the real crime. Real estate in CA is outrageous.
As to the woman….
But then she got criminally crazy and ugly.
Ummm, she went criminal when she impersonated the husband and used the US mail to do it. That is a federal offense (mail fraud) and a local felony (identity fraud).
Too bad she didn’t think about her disabled daughter and ailing husband when she placed ads soliciting home invasion and rape.
^THIS^ I’m getting really sick of hearing how a perp has to take care of someone else. Well, they should have thought of that beforehand.
This woman will hopefully be convicted and sentenced to the full amount. She has earned it.
Oh, if this had been my wife harassed in this fashion, and I found out who was behind it? There probably wouldn’t need to be a prosecution of her. You don’t solicit rape and assault and battery on my wife or girlfriend and saunter away. She, at a minimum, would be looking to live in single-floor dwellings for the rest of her life.
VikingMomSD says: Sadly, this one can be added to the Infamous People of San Diego. We, as a community, we’re horrified that this “Mother” did this since she had been voted “Mom of the Year” due to her advocacy and care for her disabled child. What is now being quietly investigated is where she acquired THAT much money to put down on house. The average mean of a house in that area is $500,000+.
hockeydad says: “She allegedly told men who responded to the listings to push their way inside the home, and gave men the couple’s new address.”
That could have led to someone being shot. I know it’s in California, but they do have a home protection bill of rights which in the above case could have led to someone in that house shooting an individual “pushing their way inside”.
When her day in court comes I hope that is also piled on.
Jodi Giddings says: Agreed! Being a woman who carries, and also lives in a rural area, I’d have shot that person in a heartbeat. I hope they throw the book at this “woman.” Unbelievable!
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