nuisance phone calls

[Fido1]

I have received several nuisance phone calls. I have contacted BT and the Police. I have now discovered who the phone calls are being made from. There being made from a mobile by a 14/15 year old boy. I have been given his name. Would the parents be charged as well as the boy, as the mobile phone will be registered to them. Would the mobile phone company want to be informed that their equipment is being misused.

[daffy654]

The mobile phone might not be registered at all if it is a PAYG phone.

[paraffin]

Hi Fido:

Should you go through the formal process and have the Police deal with it in partnership with BT, the youth would be held accountable, not his parents, unless they were actually involved.

Informing the mobile phone company would, I fear, achieve nothing.

[daffy654]

I had a similar problem a few years ago.I reported the abuse to the police and BT and was given a case number etc.I knew who the perpetrator was (an ex school friend of my daughter).I was given a code to input into my phone to trace the calls and another code to block calls from that number.The initial calls (before blocking) were traced to the girl I had named but as the phone was not registered to anyone the police said no charges could be brought against the girl.So to summarise...the little cow got away with it,she was not charged with anything and it went on for over a year,she just kept using other people's phones.I even had my number changed and she somehow got hold of the new number.Her parents knew all about it and did nothing.I eventually got it stopped by reporting it to her father's CO (he was in the army),they don't take kindly to the children of serving soldiers doing that sort of thing.lol

I hope you manage to get the boy who is doing this to you stopped/prosecuted.

[Fido1]

Thank you for all your answers. I didn't think the parents would be held accountable, but I was hoping. The boy is at school with my son and after speaking to a WPC was told in her experience that it could cause repercussions to my son having the police call round to the boys house for a chat. (That is all they would do initially) I am so angry that these cowards get away with it and the parents don't take responsibility for their Childs actions but defend it.

[paraffin]

Hi again Fido:
I've just read the bit about what the WPC told you. However, such advice may not solve your problem and it smacks to me of the WPC trying to "'cuff" this. That's Police jargon for wriggling out of doing something about it, i.e. sow a few seeds of doubt in a person's mind instead of taking some positive form of action.

Plus, her remarks about going round to the lad's house "for a chat" are quite frankly laughable. If this lad is 14/15, he's perfectly capable of being responsible for his actions (unless he has a mental incapacity). And chatting to him would simply make him aware of the complaint and put him on his guard.

Didn't she mention that, with BT's help, a trace can be put on your phone for, say, a week, and all calls would be monitored during that time and the nuisance ones would be identified and the culprit could be prosecuted?. If she didn't mention this, I would suggest that she IS trying to "cuff" it.

Ultimately your choice, but you don't seem happy from what you've said, and I don't blame you. Doing nothing will not resolve this.