Judge grants music student stalking order against parents

A US student has won a stalking order against her own parents after they followed her to university and installed tracking software on her computer and phone.

Aubrey Ireland, a gifted, 21-year-old music theatre major, said her parents David and Julie Ireland would jump in their car and drive almost 1000 km from their Kansas home to the College-Conservatory of Music in Ohio and drop in unannounced.

Ireland told the court her parents became over-involved in every facet of her life and bad-mouthed her to college staff, once even telling her department head that she suffered from serious "mental issues".

They also accused her of using drugs and "promiscuity" and installed tracking software on her computer and mobile phone to monitor her social life.

When Ireland decided to cut off all contact with them, they stopped funding her college tuition.

However, the university backed their star pupil, awarding her a full scholarship and hiring security guards to block her parents from her performances.

Judge Jody Luebbers dismissed the Irelands' claim that their daughter was "lying" about the stalking. She ordered them to stay 150 metres from her at all times and make no attempt to initiate contact before Sept 23 2013.

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