Friend Is Dealing With Harassment Including Someone Signing Her Up For Adoption Agencies For Her Baby.

Essentially my friend has had someone harassing her for the last few months now. It started as annoying, essentially all the things you would find on the petty revenge subreddit, someone signed her up for a bunch of spam email sites, gave her phone number to military recruiters, mailed her a glitter bomb this last Christmas, thing like that. The letter with the glitter bomb was nasty, telling her she’s a horrible mother, that she was fat, you get the idea. (she’s a new mother who has had horrible PPD so this hit hard) We figured out it was likely someone local as the letter was dropped in her mailbox, no stamp or return address, that sort of thing. She had a significant falling out with a friend/ex coworker about a month before this started so we figured it was her. She ignored it at that point but it kept going. After that someone signed her up for a bunch of dating sites, thankfully her husband knows what’s going on so he knows she’s not cheating, but this could have been bad otherwise. A few of her friends messaged this ex friend (not including me) and told her to please stop, she denied all of it so we can’t be sure.

At this point my friend contacted the local police (maybe sheriff?) and they contacted the ex friend. I guess they told her that this constitutes harassment and that it is not just a prank, that it’s serious and could be even considered stalking. She freaked out, unblocked my friend and messaged her that she would be suing her as she could have lost her job (she was at work when law enforcement called her). At this point all the emails, sign ups, and letters stopped for a few months so we thought it was over. Today she got a bunch of calls, texts, and emails from adoption agencies regarding her wanting to give up her baby up for adoption. They were really specific to her situation, and obviously pretty upsetting for her. I suggested she contact law enforcement again, which she will be doing in the morning. I also told her to contact a lawyer about getting a cease and desist letter but she says she doesn’t have the kind of money to get a lawyer. I don’t even know what kind of lawyer would deal with this? She’s been going through a lot as her baby has been having a lot of medical issues lately, she works full time, etc. I told her I would try to research the next step to getting this to stop and I figured someone here may have advice.

Here’s a few things we know:

it’s likely someone local as the glitter bomb and letter were not delivered by USPS, but dropped in her mailbox.

The person who keeps signing her up for things is using the wrong zip code. The area she lives in has a few zip codes but she is being signed up under the correct address, wrong zip code. The person who we suspect does live in that zip code.

This ex friend recently started working for their local law enforcement. Not as a police officer or anything herself, I believe she is a secretary for a probationary office or something similar, I don’t know the exact details. I am pretty sure this is before law enforcement contacted her which is part of the reason she freaked out about loosing her job so much.

Any and all advice would be appreciated, my poor friend is dealing with so much stuff at this time that she just needs this to stop.