I am so worried sick about a friend of mine right now and it's quite frustrating. She hasn't had the smoothest ride through life since we graduated from high school. She has a tendency to roll with the wrong people, and because of this she's landed in two abusive relationships back to back. I am by no means blaming her for what happens to her, it shouldn't even be a thing. But even before the abuse begins you can just tell that these guys are absolute scumbags. In the past year, she was released from jail after being in there for about a year due to drug charges, along with the guy she'd been dating (and abused her). She ended things with him for good and said she was going to get sober. Don't let this affect your judgment of her. She is a beautiful person who did bad things.

A few months later she was dating a guy who I swear just looked like a clone of her ex. Scrawny, scruffy, angry looking dude who looked like he snorts or smokes something serious. It hasn't even been 6 months and he is already abusing her. But this dude... he sounds extra crazy. She's had to call the cops on him multiple times for coming to her apartment and throwing fits and breaking things and throwing stuff at her. This time he full on assaulted her. I guess she went to hide at someone's house... without her cellphone and laptop. At first he started making posts claiming that she'd been reported missing and that if anyone knew of her where-abouts to let him know. Then he started posting on her Facebook via her account. He apparently went to her best friend's house and started harassing her, which finally got him arrested, but he's since been released. In the process my friend got a restraining order and has been ordered to not contact him or talk to him or any of his friends or family.

And what's frustrating me is that she is currently in that heightened ego state of escape. Like "Yeah, not so big now are you?"
1. She hasn't removed him from her friends on Facebook - I've told her she should do that, but it's possible the police told her not to in order to not provoke him.
2. She keeps posting taunting photos like "You think you broke me? You're wrong" ...which I feel contradicts the logic of #1.

In most cases this is not bad, but if a guy is willing to get onto your Facebook and pose as you, and go to your friend's house fully willing to hurt her to get to you, it's best you cut off all forms of contact and ties and lie low. I'm just so worried something worse will happen to her or someone close to her. Another friend of ours is a friend of his, and I'm worried he will target her as well.