FREDERICK — The father of Shanann Watts traveled to Colorado from North Carolina to ask for only one thing: “Just stop. Please, just stop.”
Frank Rzucek’s plea was directed to those hiding behind the anonymity of a Facebook page, a Twitter handle or a YouTube account, whom Rzucek said have been spreading false rumors and lies against their family ever since the case garnered international attention 11 months ago.
“I don’t want to go into the specifics, but I will say that our family, including Shanann and her children – and our grandchildren – have been ridiculed, demeaned, slandered, (and) mocked in the most vicious ways you can imagine,” he said as he read a prepared statement outside the former home of Chris and Shanann Watts. “This is so wrong. It is cruel. It is heartless.”
Rzucek added the family has also been subjected to false accusations and a “constant stream of ugly, evil insults and attacks,” which he said have, at times, turned into death threats against his family.
“Every time we turn around, there is someone trying to capitalize on our tragedy by spreading false rumors and outright lies about Shanann and our grandchildren,” Rzucek said, adding the barrage of online harassment has prevented the family from grieving their loss nearly a year after 34-year-old Shanann Watts was murdered along with her two daughters and her unborn child.
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