Inwood Man Cyberstalked Ex, Threatened Her: Prosecutors

INWOOD, NY — An Inwood man is facing federal charges for cyberstalking his ex-girlfriend for four years after breaking up, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York announced.

David Waldman, 50, was arrested and charged with one count of cyberstalking and one count of sending interstate threats, federal prosecutors said. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison, prosecutors said.

After Waldman and his ex-girlfriend broke up in 2014 the Inwood man began to send her hundreds of texts, voicemails and emails and made numerous posts about her on social media, federal prosecutors said. In his posts, Waldman claimed the woman was diagnosed with bipolar and narcissistic personality disorder, used drugs and made fake claims that she was the victim of childhood sexual assault, prosecutors said. Waldman even contacted the woman's employers and claimed she was a "habitual drug user," prosecutors said.

During the four-year span from 2014 to Waldman's arrest this year he also sent the woman threats saying that he'd show up at her home and office to injure, torture, and sexually assault her, federal prosecutors said.

The victim, who had dated Waldman for several of months in 2014, obtained multiple state court orders of protection against the man in the years following their breakup, prosecutors said.

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