How do you stop cyber harassment?

[Crankie Avalon]

My fiance's daughter got into some sort of penpal relationship over the internet/in message boards and that progressed into actual phone calls with a slightly older boy from another state who turned out to be a little emotionally disturbed. My fiance forbid her daughter contact with the boy very eraly on, but the daughter isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer and is/was at an age where she is very interested in boys and was probably flattered that an older boy was paying attention to her. For a while she even wanted to go along with this boy's suggestion of a visit to our town for a meeting. However, even the daughter finally saw the light about this boy and stopped sneaking the phone calls with him.

So, this boy no longer calls the house, but from time to time he posts defamatory content about my fiance (whom he always hated for steering her daughter away from him). The boy is also a racist and, as an example, in his latest posting he hopes that my fiance "...gets raped by niggers." This posting shows up quite high if someone were to do a google search on my fiance's name and is highly problematic to her since she has a sensitive job where it would be embarassing (at the least) for this to be seen if her name were researched. Plus, there are problems with the daughter's father, and even though the daughter got to know this boy through the father's fault when he would always give the daughter unsupervised computer time so he could go off and do his own thing during her visitation weekends with him, the man is just the type to try to twist it around into something to use against my fiance (he's litigious and has inherited a great deal of money).

My fiance tried contacting the website to remove the posting, but it turns out that it is the boy's own website. So, the posting has stayed on for a while now and is creeping up the google search page. My fiance also tried contacting the hosting service, but is seems impossible to decipher the instructions for exactly how to report abuses, how to format them, where to send them to, etc, and it even seems like you have to be a participating member of the service to report anything to it, anyway (even if you could figure out how to).

Isn't there some law enforcement number that my fiance could call about this? Some number specifically created for this type of situation? Or anything else she could do? The boy isn't stopping and my fiance really doesn't need this.

Thanks for any information.

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Feds say contact your local FBI office

here: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm