Transgender activist in London, Ont., facing ongoing harassment says she's leaving the country
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Transgender activist and internet broadcaster Clara Sorenti of London, Ont., says she's leaving the country to escape unrelenting harassment.
Earlier this month, Sorrenti, 28, was the victim of a swatting attack after police dispatchers fielded two calls that Sorrenti was about to shoot people at city hall. Police officers arrived at her home and arrested her at gunpoint but have since said she was not at fault.
Since then, online trolls have continued to harass Sorrenti. In one instance, someone ordered multiple pizzas to the hotel room where Sorrenti had been temporarily staying.
"Things have gone really bad," she told CBC News last night.
"I had to leave the first hotel because I got doxxed," said Sorrenti about a practice that sees someone's personal information posted online.
And now this: "My Uber account got hacked and they found out where I was staying through the Uber account," she said. "The information from my entire family got posted online. All of our e-mail addresses, phone addresses, home addresses.
"Everyone in my family got a robocall telling us that we got doxxed."
Sorrenti is concerned London Police don't have the resources to stop online trolls who are based all over the world.
"This is a very international thing," said Sorrenti. "A lot of the people who are doing this to me and to my family are Americans. They're from the UK, they're from all over the place."
"The cyber crime element to this — I don't know that the London Police Service has had to deal with something of this degree of intensity," she said.
London police say they can't comment becuase Sorrenti's case is still an open and active criminal investigation.
Because of the ongoing harassment, Sorrenti plans to go to Europe for a month or two, although she isn't willing to share any more information about her departure or destination as she fears trolls will try to send police to the airport if they know she's there.
She's heard her harassers want to get her on a no-fly list.
Sorrenti believes the bulk of the harassment stems from KiwiFarms, a website that describes itself as a 'community dedicated to discussing eccentric people who voluntarily make fools of themselves.'
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