A woman in Tennessee has been left distraught after she was forced to fork out over $16,000 to keep her stalker ex-husband under GPS monitoring.
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Gina Ehsani, 43, had to pay thousands of her own money after ex-husband Pejhman, 45, violated protection orders in place after an aggravated stalking charge.
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At his latest hearing, Pejhman's bond was removed.
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He pleaded guilty to four counts of violating the order of protection and faces three years in prison, News Channel 5 reported.
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Ehsani first obtained an order of protection on June 15, 2020, after Pejhman filed for divorce on April 21 earlier that year, court documents seen by the Daily Mail showed.
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The distraught mother said there had been several violations of the order of protection over two years, with Pejhman allegedly showing up in person, calling or repeatedly texting her, according to News Channel 5.
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'It's the anxiety of walking up.
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It's the anxiety of what shoes do I wear in case I have to run away from him?' she told the outlet.
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According to an appeal filed by Pejhman to dismiss the charges, he was accused of violating the protection order four times in June and July of 2021, March and April of 2022, and again in June of 2024.
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It was four years ago that her ex-husband was ordered by a court to wear a GPS monitor until he declared he was indigent months later and couldn't afford to pay for it.
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Gina Ehsani, 43, had to pay thousands of her own money to keep herself safe from her ex-husband Pejhman, 45, following an aggravated stalking charge
It was four years ago that her ex-husband was ordered by a court to wear a GPS monitor until he declared he was indigent months later and couldn't afford to pay for it.
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The company was set to remove it until Ehsani decided to pay for it herself
Ehsani said that she often worries about running into him, and the monitoring app alerts her if Pejhman comes within 1,000 feet of her - something she told the outlet was better than nothing
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The company was set to remove it until Ehsani decided to pay for it herself, the outlet reported.
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'I stepped in and said I will pay for it.
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You can have it,' she told News Channel 5.
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'Over $16,000 I've paid.
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No vacations, because I got to make sure this is paid.
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Ehsani said that she often worries about running into him, and the monitoring app alerts her if Pejhman comes within 1,000 feet of her – something she told the outlet was better than nothing.
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The state would typically pay for the GPS monitoring should the defendant be unable to do so, but, according to the outlet, they wouldn't cover it in Ehsani's case.
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The Debbie and Marie Domestic Violence Protection Act was intended to set money aside for situations in which defendants couldn't afford to pay for the monitoring device.
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However, amendments to the bill clarify that the 'defendant is not eligible for assistance from the electronic monitoring indigency fund, regardless of whether the defendant is indigent,' the Tennessee General Assembly wrote.
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A second amendment simply said if a defendant is released without a monitoring device, the court is only obliged to notify the victim that they would not be notified of the defendant's proximity.
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At the latest hearing, Pehjman's bond was removed.
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He pleaded guilty to four counts of violating the order of protection and faces three years in prison
According to Ehsani
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, her ex-husband allegedly threatened the staff of a former GPS monitoring company, causing them to refuse him, and she had to find another company
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'So, what you're telling offenders is so long as you figure out a way to be indigent, you don't have to have a tracking monitor because nobody is going to pay for it,' Ehsani told the outlet.
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She said that courts need to understand that, even in cases that involved no physical violence, lives remain at risk.
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My children have a safety plan in the event mommy is attacked.
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My children have a safety plan in the event someone comes into the house armed and they don’t know why, but they know that sometimes the world is a bad place,' she added.
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According to Ehsani, her ex-husband allegedly previously threatened the staff of a former GPS monitoring company, causing them to refuse him, and she had to find another company.
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